A lawyer named Eze Victor Agala tragically collapsed and passed away outside a courtroom in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.

The legal practitioner, hailing from Ibaa in Emohua Local Government Area of the state, collapsed as he exited the Magistrate Court building on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.

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Efforts were made to save him, and he was swiftly taken to the Police Clinic where he was pronounced dead.

While the leadership of the Port Harcourt branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has not yet issued a statement regarding the incident, Agala’s friends and colleagues have taken to social media to mourn his passing.