NJC Titles 69 Fresh judges, courts, heads of courts

THE National Judicial Council (NJC) has announced the names of its 69 judges and heads of courts it’s advocated for an appointment during its 93rd meeting on December 16.

In a statement by its own spokesman Soji Oye, the NJC also called the courts in which they are supposed to serve.

Oye stated: “All recommended candidates are expected to be sworn in following consent of the NJC’s recommendations from the President, the governors and the Houses of Assembly, as the case might be.”

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They brand new appointees include: Justice Henry Adebola Olusiyi (Chief Judge, Kogi State), Justice Aisha Lami Bawa Bwari (Chief Judge, Niger State), Kadi Shu’aibu Sodangi Achida (Grand Kadi, Sharia Court of Appeal, Sokoto State), Justice John Bayo Olowosegun (President, Customary Court of Appeal, Kogi State), Justice Wasiu Oladejo Akanbi (President, Customary Court of Appeal, Osun State) and Justice Patrick Sati Dapit (President, Customary Court of Appeal, Plateau State).

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Others include Justice S. M. C. Ururuka-Onyensoh (President, Customary Court of Appeal, Abia State), Saadu Muhammad Sambowal, Farouk Umar Sarki and Mohammed Mukhtar Abubakar (judges of the High Court of Bauchi State); Bamidele Rotimi Aina and Aisha Uwani Mohammed (judges of the High Court of Kogi State); Timipere Songi (judges of the High Court of Bayelsa State); Ben Whyte-Opufaa and Gbasam Okogbule (judges of the High Court of Rivers State); Alma Ngozi Eluwa and Dominica Okwuchi Okoroji (judges of the High Court of Imo State); Olatunde Opeyemi Beatrice Sobowale (judge, High Court of Ogun State); Hadiza Lawan Musa and Amina Shehu (judges of the High Court of Yobe State.

A senior prosecutor with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Sadisu Abubakar, is also on the record, in Addition to Bashiru Dan Maisule, Salisu Garba, Lawal Sule Abdullahi, and Abdullahi Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory (Kadis of the Sharia Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT).