{"id":13240,"date":"2019-07-24T17:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2019-07-24T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T17:19:36","slug":"photos-buhari-swears-in-tanko-as-cjn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/photos-buhari-swears-in-tanko-as-cjn","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Buhari swears in Tanko as CJN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).<\/p>\n<p>He became the 18th CJN at the brief ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad, who took over from the immediate past and suspended CJN, Walter Onnoghen, was screened and cleared by the Senate last week.<\/p>\n<p>He has been on acting capacity since January, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari middle, Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo the new Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Tanko Muhammad and others family members during the Swearing-in of Justice Tanko Muhammad as Chief Justice of the Federation at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13247\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-2-1-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-2-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-2-1-500x375-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-2-1-500x375-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13250\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-1A-750x926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-1A-750x926.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-1A-750x926-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13251\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-3-1-750x317-5d38931ae1f5d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-3-1-750x317-5d38931ae1f5d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/CHIEF-JUDGE-3-1-750x317-5d38931ae1f5d-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). He became the 18th CJN at the brief ceremony. Muhammad, who took over from the immediate past and suspended CJN, Walter Onnoghen, was screened and cleared by the Senate last week. He has been on acting capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":13249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,589,158,755],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-cjn","tag-presidency","tag-tanko"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photos: Buhari swears in Tanko as CJN - 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\/photos-buhari-swears-in-tanko-as-cjn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photos: Buhari swears in Tanko as CJN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). 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