Tag: Tanko Muhammad

Justice Tanko Muhammad died in the early hours of Tuesday, 16 December 2025, a few weeks before his 72nd birthday.

The NJC, Ms Kekere-Ekun and Bauchi State Governor Bala Muhammed commiserated with the family of former CJN Tanko Muhammad.

Mr Ariwoola, Nigeria’s 17th chief justice, reached his retirement age of 70 on Thursday.

Highlights of the issues raised concerning the transactions totalling N12.335 billion in the 2020 audit report include - payments for ...

The outburst of the retiring Supreme Court judge was the first-of-its-kind brutal criticism of a sitting CJN.

The lawyer threatened to institute a legal action "to seek redress" if President Buhari goes ahead to confer the national ...

With Abdu Aboki’s retirement, the Supreme Court is back to where it was in February 2020, when the number of ...

The process of recruitment of judges in Nigeria has been a subject of intense debate amongst lawyers and civil society ...

There have been controversies about the age of the new acting CJN, Olukayode Ariwoola, with his Wikipedia page indicating his ...

Mr Tinubu also wished the former CJN, Tanko Muhammad, a quick recovery.

Tanko Muhammad resigned on Monday as CJN barely a week after 14 justices of the Supreme Court accused him of ...

The NBA says CJN’s resignation cannot be divorced from the raging crisis in the Supreme Court with the 14 other ...

The resignation by the CJN, Tanko Muhammad, 68, comes about 18 months ahead of his official retirement time in December ...

All the 29 candidates shortlisted for six slots on the Supreme Court bench are current Justices of the Court of ...

The motion was stepped down following demands by some of the lawmakers that the remunerations of all public officers should ...

Fourteen justices of the Supreme Court had, in a leaked memo, accused the Mr Tanko of not giving them their ...

The CJN responded to the leaked protest letter by his colleagues on the Supreme Court bench in a statement on ...

In a first-of-its-kind protest letter in the 58-year history of the apex court, the Justices chronicled the operational challenges that ...

"Nothing stops the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, the ICPC and other investigatory agencies from opening the books ...

The policy gives politicians strict rules on where to file political and election-related cases, among other provisions, ahead of the ...

The CJN told the new judges to brace up for the "impossible" from the Nigerian society, "especially as we approach ...

The NJC took the decision at its 97th meeting held on March 15 and 16, 2022, the council's Director of ...

The slow pace of cases in court is one the acute problems of Nigeria's justice administration system.

Appointing lawyers from the bar directly to the Supreme Court bench is a rare occurrence in Nigeria, even though it ...

The CJN’s call for nominations signals the commencement of the process for appointments to the Supreme Court bench which currently ...