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.
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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.
The National Judicial Council has approved the request of Preisent Umhammadu Buhari for the extension of appointment of Justice Tanko Muhammad as Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria for another three months.
President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the appointment of the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice I. T. Muhammad.
In continuation of its Emergency Meeting, the National Judicial Council accepted the result of the preliminary assessment of the petitions against Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen and Justice I.T. Muhammad that the petitions were worthy of further investigation and should not be terminated under Rule 17 of the Judicial Discipline Regulations of the Council.
The National Judicial Council has asked the suspended Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, with another query.
A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has approached a Federal High Court in Lagos, challenging the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria.