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Buhari swears in Acting CJN (Photos)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday swore-in Hon Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen as the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).
This followed the retirement of Hon Justice Mahmud Mohammad, the former CJN who is stepping aside after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
Justice Onnoghen is the most senior Justice of the Supreme Court after Mohammed.
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The National Judicial Council was said to have earlier forwarded the name of Justice Onnoghen along two others for the President to pick any of the three justices as the new CJN based on the recommendations of the Federal Judicial Service Commission.
Justice Onnoghen was born in 1950 at Okurike, Biase Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State and was appointed to the Supreme Court bench in 2005.
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