CJN PLEDGES THAT SUPREME COURT WILL SOON HAVE THE FULL COMPLEMENT OF 21 JUSTICES

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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 2023ā€“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, ā€œThe 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.

ā€œThough 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.

ā€œThat is one of the legacies I have been working assiduously to leave behind as it now seems that the Court has been somewhat ā€˜jinxedā€™ from meeting its Constitutional requirement since that piece of legislation was enacted several years ago.ā€

 

 

 

 

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