Muhammad’s resignation as the 17th Chief Justice of Nigeria was made public on Monday.
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The letter read like the demand of unionised shop floor factory workers to their mean, grasping bosses upstairs.
The legal luminary, who instituted the suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja prayed the court to compel the defendants alongside the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), to increase judges’ salaries.
He urged the people of the State to remain calm as he was sure of quashing the ruling at the Appeal Court.
Soji Oye, NJC Director of Information, said the decision was taken during the council’s two-day meeting in Abuja.
The Executive Secretary of NJC, Ahmed Saleh who appeared before Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, chaired by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele to give overview of 2021 budget and defend 2022 budget proposal which is pegged at N120 billion, said galloping inflation had forced judiciary to roll some of their projects in 2021 to 2022 budget.
Alhaji Abbas Rufa’i, Director, Special Services and Protocol Matters, Jigawa State Judicial Service Commission, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Sunday.
The Supreme Court Director of Information, Soji Oye disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
The group made the call on Thursday in Ibadan at a news conference on the death of three lawyers nominated as judges, but died while awaiting approval.
In his originating summons dated June 18, 2021, Okoye sued the 36 states through their attorneys-general.
The group; the Incorporated Trustees of Alaigbo Development Foundation, also sued the Federal Judicial Service Commission, President of the Court of Appeal, Federal Character Commission (FCC) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) as 2nd to 5th defendants respectively.
JUSUN took the decision at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting which just ended in Abuja.
Justice Inyang Ekwo again adjourned the matter for hearing after counsel to the 1st and 2nd defendants told the court that they were yet to file any application in response to the plaintiff’s suit.
Also to be affected by the order are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), who are all listed as defendants in a suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2016/2021 filed by Justice Akeredolu.
This was contained in a statement by Soji Oye, the NJC Director of Information, on Sunday in Abuja.
The NJC, with the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice I. T. Muhammad, as chairman, took the decision at its meeting held on October 22 and 23, 2019.
Adegboyega Adenekan, a Supervisor at Chrisland School, accused of defiling a pupil of the school has petitioned the National Judicial Council accusing the trial judge, Justice Sybil Nwaka, of bias.
SERAP said: “Across the country, state governors and federal government are charging citizens, mostly journalists, bloggers and activists, with serious crimes such as ‘treason’, ‘treasonable felony’ or bogus crime of ‘insulting public officials’, simply for exercising their human rights.”
The Nigerian Judicial Council through a letter from the Chief Justice of Nigeria last year sacked Justice Rita Ajumogobia-Ofili
Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Lagos made this known on Friday at the continuation of the trial of Ajumogobia-Ofili for money laundering and corruption.
Kogi High Court sitting in Koton-Karfe on Tuesday ruled that the Executive and Legislature, jointly or unilaterally, cannot remove the state Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah without recourse to the National Judicial Council.