{"id":11332,"date":"2019-06-10T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:06:47","slug":"buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement","title":{"rendered":"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Tanko Muhammad, on the appointment of additional five Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.<\/p>\n

This was made known Sunday night by his spokesman, Garba Shehu.<\/p>\n

The President wrote: \u2018\u2018Pursuant to the provisions of Section 230(2) A&B of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), I am pleased to request that you initiate in earnest the process of appointing additional five Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to make the full complement of 21 Justices as provided by the aforementioned provisions of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018This is in line with the Government\u2019s Agenda of repositioning the Judiciary in general and Supreme Court in particular for greater efficiency, with a view to reducing the backlogs of appeals pending at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018Please accept, your Lordship, the assurances of my highest regards.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President Buhari has accepted the voluntary retirement from service of Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria, effective from May 28, 2019.<\/p>\n

The President thanked Justice Onnoghen for his service to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and wished him the best of retirement life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Tanko Muhammad, on the appointment of additional five Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. This was made known Sunday night by his spokesman, Garba Shehu. The President wrote: \u2018\u2018Pursuant to the provisions of Section 230(2) A&B of the Constitution of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,91,235,620],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-garba-shehu","tag-president","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"\nBuhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Tanko Muhammad, on the appointment of additional five Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. This was made known Sunday night by his spokesman, Garba Shehu. The President wrote: \u2018\u2018Pursuant to the provisions of Section 230(2) A&B of the Constitution of the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-10T14:06:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-10T14:06:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\"},\"wordCount\":205,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Garba Shehu\",\"President\",\"Supreme Court\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\",\"name\":\"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-10T14:06:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg\",\"width\":650,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\",\"name\":\"alico\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement - Nigeria","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement","og_description":"President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Tanko Muhammad, on the appointment of additional five Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. This was made known Sunday night by his spokesman, Garba Shehu. The President wrote: \u2018\u2018Pursuant to the provisions of Section 230(2) A&B of the Constitution of the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2019-06-10T14:06:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":650,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"alico","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"alico","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement"},"author":{"name":"alico","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"headline":"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement","datePublished":"2019-06-10T14:06:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement"},"wordCount":205,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","keywords":["Buhari","Garba Shehu","President","Supreme Court"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement","name":"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-10T14:06:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Buhari-inaugurates.jpg","width":650,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-moves-to-appoint-5-new-supreme-court-justices-accepts-onnoghens-retirement#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Buhari moves to appoint 5 new Supreme Court justices, accepts Onnoghen\u2019s retirement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7","name":"alico","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}