President Bola Tinubu on Thursday urged members of the judiciary not to be deterred in the commitment to their constitutional mandate of ensuring justice.President Tinubu gave the charge at the public presentation of the autobiography of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the retired Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).However, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun is expected to take over the leadership of Nigeria’s judiciary on Friday after Justice Ariwoola retired on Aug. 22, having attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.President Tinubu, who was represented at the event by Vice President Kashim Shettima, said…
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CJN, cog in the Wheel of Presidential Election Petition – Rights Activist
By Alphonsus Nweze The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), Nze Emeka Umeagbalasi, has said that the Chief Justice of the Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, is the major stumbling block on the way of getting justice from the Judiciary in the on-going Presidential Election Petition in Abuja Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) dragged both the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who was declared the…
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