Kogi Chief Judge Nasir Ajanah has died in an Abuja hospital.
The Chief Judge reportedly died at a coronavirus isolation centre in Abuja.
His death is coming barely two weeks after an aide to Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello also died in an Abuja hospital.
A family member confirmed the death to on the condition of anonymity the because he was not the right person to break the news.
Kogi State Government has insisted all the while that the state is free of COVID-19.
The governor literally accused the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control of trying to fabricate the virus cases in the state where there was none.