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But NJC’s, in its statement, said after its 95th Meeting of 15 & 16 September 2021, considered the list of candidates presented by its Interview Committee and resolved to recommend the under-listed names of Thirty-seven (37) successful candidates to their respective State Governors for appointment as Heads of Courts and other Judicial Officers in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n
They are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n
1.CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KOGI STATE
i)Hon. Justice Richard O. Olorunfemi<\/p>\n\n\n
2.CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, EDO STATE
i) Hon. Justice Joe Itsebaga Acha<\/p>\n\n\n
3.CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, ONDO STATE
i) Hon. Justice Akintoroye Williams Akin<\/p>\n\n\n
4.CHIEF JUDGE, FCT, ABUJA
i)Hon. Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf<\/p>\n\n\n
5.CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, AKWA-IBOM STATE
i)Hon. Justice Ekaette Francesca Fabian-Obot<\/p>\n\n\n
6.CHIEF JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, EKITI STATE
i)Hon. Justice J. O. Adeyeye<\/p>\n\n\n
7.GRAND KADI, YOBE STATE
i)Hon. Kadi Baba Gana Mahdi<\/p>\n\n\n
8.GRAND KADI, BAUCHI STATE
i)Umaru Ahmad Liman<\/p>\n\n\n
9.PRESIDENT, CUSTOMARY COURT OF APPEAL, NASARAWA STATE
i)Hon.Justice Osagede Osado Emmanuel<\/p>\n\n\n
10.PRESIDENT, CUSTOMARY COURT OF APPEAL, OYO STATE
i)Hon.Justice Mashud Akintunde Akinfemi Abass<\/p>\n\n\n
11.PRESIDENT, CUSTOMARY COURT OF APPEAL, KOGI STATE
i)Siyaka Momoh Jimoh Usman<\/p>\n\n\n
12.THREE (3) JUDGES, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, GOMBE STATE
i)Zainab Abdulkadir Rasheed<\/p>\n\n\n
ii)Abdussalam Muhammad<\/p>\n\n\n
iii)Daurabo Suleiman Sikkam<\/p>\n\n\n
13.TWO (2) JUDGES, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, AKWA-IBOM STATE
i)Effiong Asukwo Effiong
ii)Pricess Eme Daniel Ekong<\/p>\n\n\n
14.ONE (1) JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, BAUCHI STATE
i)Nana Fatima Jibril<\/p>\n\n\n
TWO\u00a0(2)\u00a0JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KADUNA STATE
i)Abdulkarim\u00a0Mahmu<\/p>\n\n\n
ii)Eugene Micheal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n16.THREE (3) JUDGES, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KATSINA STATE
i)Kabir Shuaibu<\/p>\n\n\n
ii)Ibrahim Ishaku Mashi<\/p>\n\n\n
iii)Ibrahim Abubakar Mande<\/p>\n\n\n
17.ONE (1) JUDGE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, ONDO STATE
i) Professor Alero Akeredolu<\/p>\n\n\n
18.FOUR (4) JUDGES, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, OYO STATE
i)Olusola Adebisi Adetujoye
ii)Folabimpe Beatrice Segun Olakojo
iii)Professor Taiwo Elijah Adewale
iv)Kareem Adeyimika Adedokun<\/p>\n\n\n
19.THREE (3) JUDGES, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KOGI STATE
i)Abubakar Sule Ibrahim
ii)Abdullah Sulyman
iii)Aminu Ali Eri<\/p>\n\n\n
20.TWO (2) KADIS, SHARIA COURT OF APPEAL, GOMBE STATE
i)Adamu Kuna Jibril
ii)Ahmed Baba Bala<\/p>\n\n\n
21.FOUR (4) KADIS, SHARIA COURT OF APPEAL, BAUCHI STATE
i)Musa Sani Abubakar
ii)Mahdi Manga
iii)Khamis Al-Hamidallah Muhammad
iv)Sani Musa<\/p>\n\n\n
22.ONE (1) JUDGE, CUSTOMARY COURT OF APPEAL, ONDO STATE
i)Orimisan James Okorisa<\/p>\n\n\n
23.ONE (1) JUDGE, CUSTOMARY COURT OF APPEAL, OYO STATE
i)Ajadi Olubukola Omolayo<\/p>\n\n\n
All recommended candidates are expected to be sworn-in after approval by the President, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR and their respective State Governors and confirmation by the respective State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Again, Gombe State is missing among in the list of states which Chief Judges were recommended for appointment by the National Judicial Council (NJC), going by a statement by the Council’s director of Information, Mr. Soji Oye. No reason was given for the omission which Everyday.ng reported on Saturday was a function of political manoeuvrings and ethno-religious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[363,546,547],"class_list":["post-35676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-gombe","tag-judges","tag-njc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}