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Reports reaching The Eagle Online has it that Onnoghen stepped into the Senate Chamber at about 11:50am

The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, announced the date at the resumption of plenary for the week on Tuesday

On February 2, the Senate adjourned its normal plenary session schedule for three weeks to enable members participate in their various committees for the defence of budget estimates by Ministries, Departments and Agencies

Thankfully, it is not every core northerner or Fulani man that shares the narrow world-view of men like President Buhari, who, apparently, believes that the south is inferior to the north and that she is not deserving or qualified to produce a Chief Justice of the Federation

Umar, in a statement on Thursday, said this against the background of the Presidency to confirm Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria

The National Judicial Council on October 13 had recommended Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria and he was sworn in as acting CJN on November 10 by President Buhari

Fayose said there are forces out to prevent Onnoghen from becoming the substantive CJN

The CJN, who has earlier vowed to continue from where his predecessors stopped in the cleansing of the judiciary, said that the same lawyers, both old and young, who decried the rots on the Bench are the first to jump to seek a court order to stop the National Judicial Council from investigating judges alleged to have acted wrongly

Justice Mahmud was grilled by the Senate on Tuesday

Mukhtar, who spoke at the 2012/2013 session of the call-to-Bar, organised by the Council of Legal Education and Nigerian Law School, described the new wigs as “worthy ministers in the temple of justice”

The TUC, in a statement by its President General, Peter Esele, said the judges did not have the minimum 10 years experience required to occupy such position

The decision of the CJN was sequel to a petition challenging the state of origin declared by the judge, who was nominated under a slot reserved for Abia State