Supreme Court vacancies: CJN shuns SANs, picks 29 Appeal Court Justices
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has excluded lawyers, including seven Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), from the six present or future vacancies at the Supreme Court. None of the 23 lawyers who heeded the CJN’s January 19 invitation and applied for the job is on a 29-man provisional list seen by The Nation on Sunday. The list, sent by Justice Muhammad, who doubles as Chairman, Federal Judicial Service Commission, to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), was received by its Judiciary Committee Chairman Dr. Babatunde Ajibade, SAN, on May 27. It comprises 29 Justices of the Court of Appeal from five geopolitical zones. They are to fill six present or expected vacancies on the Supreme Court’s maximum 21-man bench. The shortlist includes five jurists each from the Northcentral, Northwest, Southsouth and Southwest, while the Southeast has a nine-man jurist team. The candidates and their zones are “A. Northcentral: 1. Justice Jummai Sankey, JCA, 2. Justice Stephen Jonah Adah, JCA, 3.
Supreme Court vacancies: CJN shuns SANs, picks 29 Appeal Court Justices
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has excluded lawyers, including seven Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), from the six present or future vacancies at the Supreme Court. None of the 23 lawyers who heeded the CJN’s January 19 invitation and applied for the job is on a 29-man provisional list seen by The Nation on Sunday. The list, sent by Justice Muhammad, who doubles as Chairman, Federal Judicial Service Commission, to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), was received by its Judiciary Committee Chairman Dr. Babatunde Ajibade, SAN, on May 27. It comprises 29 Justices of the Court of Appeal from five geopolitical zones. They are to fill six present or expected vacancies on the Supreme Court’s maximum 21-man bench. The shortlist includes five jurists each from the Northcentral, Northwest, Southsouth and Southwest, while the Southeast has a nine-man jurist team. The candidates and their zones are “A. Northcentral: 1. Justice Jummai Sankey, JCA, 2. Justice Stephen Jonah Adah, JCA, 3.