72 Lawyers will on December 8, be conferred the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad. A statement by the Director of Media and Information of the Supreme Court, Dr. Akande Festus, signaled that the conferment would hold at the main courtroom of the apex ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Mohammed has vowed that the judiciary would not rest on its oars until corruption is stamped out of the country. The CJN said this on Tuesday during the third National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector in Abuja, the nation’s capital. According to him, between 2020/2021, over ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has said that it is difficult for the judiciary to be impartial and objective in a democracy, where it remains financially tied to the executive. Muhammad made this known yesterday, at the 2021 biannual All Nigeria Judges Conference for courts of superior records, at the National ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, have criticised the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for keeping silent on the crisis confronting the nation and assault on the judiciary. Wike and Mohammed spoke at the opening ceremony of the 2021 annual general conference of the NBA on the theme ...

“In order not to be left behind, you must continuously seek knowledge pertaining to technological innovations for library science and also imbibe ICT knowledge and skills,” the NJI boss said.

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Adeyinka Olumide Fusika, has decried what he called ‘Trafficking in Political Judgement’ by some senior members of the Bar and Bench. He urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to do the needful and weed out erring judges from the system to save the judiciary. He also spoke on other ...

I am against it (ex parte order) but it has its own foundation; you can’t throw the foundation away. It has never happened before that one would use an ex parte order to remove a judge; you can’t use an ex parte order to remove a magistrate. But it was used to remove the chief ...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, has ordered a disciplinary action against a judge of the Upper Area Court in Abuja who recently issued a direct criminal summons against, Charles Soludo, PREMIUM TIMES learnt on Sunday. Mr Soludo, who is the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the forthcoming ...

Three of the judges who granted conflicting ex parte orders have been invited to appear before the NJC to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against them for granting such orders.

“There are indications that the Chief Judge, Delta State High Court, has also been invited to join the other six Chief Judges to meet with the Chief Justice of Nigeria on Monday,” a judiciary source said.

By the summons, the affected Chief Judges are to first appear before CJN, preparatory to their appearance before the NJC to explain what informed the issuance of conflicting orders by courts of coordinate jurisdiction.

He specifically charged Justice Baba Yusuf to conduct the affairs of the FCT judiciary within the ambit of the law, adding that, “Anything to the contrary will not place you on the right side of history.

Justice Muhammad, who gave the charge yesterday, while declaring open the virtual workshop for directors and inspectors of Area, Sharia and Customary Courts in the country said since these courts hear the majority of the cases at the grassroots, they are expected to be efficient and equitable in their delivery of justice.