
CJN PLEDGES THAT SUPREME COURT WILL SOON HAVE THE FULL COMPLEMENT OF 21 JUSTICES
On Monday, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), promised that the Supreme Court would soon have all 21 justices.
During a ceremony in Abuja to commemorate the Supreme Court’s 2023–2024 legal year and the induction of 58 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), he made the promise.
In mid-November, the National Judicial Council (NJC) received a list of 22 Justices of the Court of Appeal who had been nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) to the Supreme Court.
Justice Ariwoola said, “The cherry news is that as soon as I assumed office on the 27th day of June, 2022, I immediately got down to work on this urgent and immediate need in particular.
“Though we have not gotten them on board yet, I can convincingly assure the litigant public that within a very short while, the Supreme Court of Nigeria will, for the very first time in its history, get the Constitutionally-prescribed full complement of 21 Justices.
“That is one of the legacies I have been working assiduously to leave behind as it now seems that the Court has been somewhat ‘jinxed’ from meeting its Constitutional requirement since that piece of legislation was enacted several years ago.”
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