Posted by On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, will administer the oath of office to the 23 newly appointed Federal High Court judges.
According to a statement made on Sunday by Dr. Festus Akande, the Court’s Director of Press and Information, the Judges will be sworn in at 11:00 am in the Supreme Court’s Main Courtroom.
Dipeolu Deinde Isaac from Ogun State, Ogundare Kehinde Olayiwola from Ekiti State, Agbaje Olufunmilola Adetutu from Lagos State, Musa Kakaki from Kaduna State, Abdullahi Muhammad Dan-Ige from Sokoto State, and Sharon Tanko Ishaya from Kebbi State are the new judges.
Others are Salim Olasupo Ibrahim from Ogun State; Yilwa Hauwa Joseph from Gombe State; Wigwe-Oreh Chituru Joy from Rivers State; Owoeye Alexander Oluseyi from Kogi State; Anyalewa Onoja-Alapa from Benue State; Amina Aliyu Mohammad from Katsina State; Abiodun Jordan Adeyemi from Kwara State; Hauwa Buhari from Federal Capital Territory; and Aishatu Auta Ibrahim from Borno State.
The rest are Hussaini Dadan-Garba from Bauchi State; Ibrahim Ahmad Kala from Gombe State; Mashkur Salisu from Zamfara State; Onah Chigozie Sergius from Enugu State; Egbe Raphael Joshua from Bayelsa State; Ariwoola Olukayode Jnr. from Oyo State; Ekerete Udofot Akpan from Akwa Ibom State; and Ogazi Friday Nkemakonam from Ebonyi State.
A farewell court session will also be place on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, at 10:00 am in the Supreme Court’s Main Courtroom in memory of the late Justice Chima Centus Nweze.
The session will be presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, as is customary. Among other things, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Chairman of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, and the President of the Nigerian Bar Association will present tributes in memory of the late jurist.
It would be noted that Justice Nweze, 64, passed away on Saturday, July 29, 2023 in Abuja following a brief illness.
On October 29, 2014, he was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court. On September 25, 1958, he was born in Obollo, Udenu Local Government Area, Enugu State.
From 1972 to 1977, he studied at St. John Cross Seminary in Nsukka, where he graduated with distinction on the West African School Certificate Examination.
He was admitted to the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, in 1979, and in 1983, he received his law degree. He served as the Chief Oralist at the Philip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington, DC, that same year, representing the Law Faculty and all Nigerian law faculties.
After being admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1984, Justice Nweze completed his NYSC in Bauchi between 1984 and 1985.
He also received his law doctorate from the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.