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Ariwoola: Supreme Court Has An All Time Lowest Number Of Justices
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has disclosed that the Supreme Court has an all-time lowest number of Justices in its history.
The CJN stated this on Friday on the occasion of retirement of Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed, revealing that the apex court has only 10 Justices on its bench to tackle the heavy workload of pending cases.
Justice Ariwoola added that efforts are on top gear to elevate a sizeable Justices to the bench of the Court.
“With Justice Musa Dattijo leaving us today after the retirement of Hon. Justice Adamu Amina Augie a few weeks ago, we are now left with just 10 Justices on the Supreme Court Bench; being the lowest we have ever had in contemporary history of the Court.
“However, I can confidently assure all the litigant public that efforts are in top gear to get on board a sizeable number of Justices to boost our rank and complement the tremendous effort we have been investing in the business of the Court.”
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The CJN paid glowing tributes to the retired Justice saying, “My Lord Hon. Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad in whose honour we assemble here today, is an epitome of jurisprudential finesse; an insuperable lion with an irrepressible voice in the temple of justice.
“We are here to identify with an accomplished jurisprudential iconoclast that has offered the best of his intellect to the advancement of the legal profession through his several years of unblemished and incontrovertible adjudications at different levels of Courts in Nigeria.
“His Lordship has, by all standards, made an incisive inroad into the revered history books of the Nigerian judiciary as that gallant and eminent Justice at the Supreme Court bench who inviolably held sway in the discharge of his judicial functions.
“As second-in-command in the hierarchy of the Supreme Court, my Lord, Justice Dattijo, skilfully aided and supported me virtually in every sphere of administration. He is a specimen of hard work, industry, discipline and high moral rectitude.”