President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the Senate to consider and confirm the nominations of two judges as Justices of the Supreme Court.
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, read the letter conveying the request after the Senate returned from closed-door session on Tuesday.
The nominated judges are Sidi Bage, Nasarawa State, North Central; and Paul Jauro, Taraba State, North East.
In the letter read by Mr. Saraki, Mr. Buhari said his request followed Section 231(2) of the Constitution of Nigeria, as amended.
The President sought expeditious attention of the Senate, Mr. Saraki read.
Mr. Jauro, who was born on June 26, 1954, became judge of the High Court in 1998. Ten years afterwards, he was appointed Justice of the Court Appeal.
Mr. Bage, born on June 22, 1956, became Federal High Court Judge in 1992 before his appointment as Justice of the Court of Appeal in 2000.
The two Judges had been recommended for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court by the National Judicial Council.
Their nominations came amid a clampdown on allegedly corrupt judges in the High, Appeal and the Supreme Courts, by the State Security Service.
Of the 15 said to be under investigation, seven were arrested weekend.
They were granted bail on Monday on self-recognisance.


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Buhari the appointment and termination man.

Ok

But where is lalasticlala sef?

Abi you don go Eastern Germany

Is this still fight against corruption?

RIDE ON MR PRESIDENT. Some call you a dictator but if dictatorship is what is required to sanitize the system you have the support of sane Nigerians. Invade the home of looters, break their doors and safes with sledge hammers, brutalize them with your DSS and make them pay for short changing the state. We must sanitize the country for the upcoming generations

Justiyke4u:
Is this still fight against corruption?

have the junkeeter been fighting corruption since


he has been pampering it rather....


fact!!!

So He is Replacing SE and SS Supreme Court Judges with his Northern brothers...... as usual they are All saints including the one that quash his Certificate forgery case.

Ok oh! Power belongs to the Northern elite. Na only them sabi how to fight kwarupshion . The rest of you are kwarupt.

patriotic9jaboy:
RIDE ON MR PRESIDENT. Some call you a dictator but if dictatorship is what is required to sanitize the system you have the support of sane Nigerians. Invade the home of looters, break their doors and safes with sledge hammers, brutalize them with your DSS and make them pay for short changing the state. We must sanitize the country for the upcoming generations

This guy is such a clown..

patriotic9jaboy:
RIDE ON MR PRESIDENT. Some call you a dictator but if dictatorship is what is required to sanitize the system you have the support of sane Nigerians. Invade the home of looters, break their doors and safes with sledge hammers, brutalize them with your DSS and make them pay for short changing the state. We must sanitize the country for the upcoming generations

there you are









sycophant!!!

OK his own guys that would cover up for the administration right??..

We hear word..

patriotic9jaboy:
RIDE ON MR PRESIDENT. Some call you a dictator but if dictatorship is what is required to sanitize the system you have the support of sane Nigerians. Invade the home of looters, break their doors and safes with sledge hammers, brutalize them with your DSS and make them pay for short changing the state. We must sanitize the country for the upcoming generations

Seconded X 10000000000000000000000000000000000000

Our institutions are fake, how can a sitting president be appointing supreme court justices?

richidinho:
Our institutions are fake, how can a sitting president be appointing supreme court justices

Who appoints supreme court justices? Your village elder?


Shey you finish primary school at all?

smh...

GreatSE:
So He is Replacing SE and SS Supreme Court Judges with his Northern brothers...... as usual they are All saints including the one that quash his Certificate forgery case.

At this rate of thinking, the Southeast might not produce a new Supreme Court judge by the year 30,000. How did you miss the fact that the nominated justices were selected by the National Judicial Council (NJC)?

Sane people from the Southeast should not allow the voices of mediocres like this be the dominant ones coming from their region. It does you a great disservice.

arresa:




Who appoints supreme court justices? Your village elder?


Shey you finish primary school at all?

smh...

Smh for kids

richidinho:
Our institutions are fake, how can a sitting president be appointing supreme court justices?

the judges were nominated by the NJC and not the president

cktheluckyman:


the judges were nominated by the NJC and not the president

Seen my brother, help educate that foooool up there
I think the headline is misleading

PMB the Lee Kuan Yew of our time! We will change this country for good together.

This does not look like democracy again.

cktheluckyman:


the judges were nominated by the NJC and not the president

The president appoints, the NJC recommends.



Basically, the president decides who to send to the senate for confirmation and not the NJC.

NJC is a recommending body and not an appointing body based on the Nigerian constitution..

THIS IS GETTING SERIOUSLY SERIOUS. WELL, WE ARE WATCHING

maclatunji:


At this rate of thinking, the Southeast might not produce a new Supreme Court judge by the year 30,000. How did you miss the fact that the nominated justices were selected by the National Judicial Council (NJC)?

Sane people from the Southeast should not allow the voices of mediocres like this be the dominant ones coming from their region. It does you a great disservice.

You know I don't like you, because You are one those Yoruba Muslim that worship their Fulani masters, The Northerners have more Judges that any other region in this country, there are corrupt Judges all over Nigeria, the only two supreme court Judges investigated are from SS and SE, so why not replace them from Judges from their region...... NJC will Nominate hundreds of Names, its the President that will send the ones he wants to NASS for confirmation.

patriotic9jaboy:
[s]RIDE ON MR PRESIDENT. Some call you a dictator but if dictatorship is what is required to sanitize the system you have the support of sane Nigerians. Invade the home of looters, break their doors and safes with sledge hammers, brutalize them with your DSS and make them pay for short changing the state. We must sanitize the country for the upcoming generations[/s]

he who sits on the back of a leopard shall end up in its stomach one day.

cktheluckyman:


the judges were nominated by the NJC and not the president

Do you know how many Names the NJC send to him?..... many if you don't know, and the politics behind it is that sometimes the president will force NJC to include some certain names he wants.

arresa:





The president appoints, the NJC recommends.



Basically, the president decides who to send to the senate for confirmation and not the NJC.

NJC is a recommending body and not an appointing body based on the Nigerian constitution..

No one can become a supreme court judge without the NJC.The NJC recommends and the president merely forward their names to the Senate for confirmation

demolinka:
PMB the Lee Kuan Yew of our time! We will change this country for good together.

Don't ever compare your Buhari to lee kuan yew. I fit slap person because of that kin blasphemy and wrong use of analogy.
Singaporeans sef no go like that kin disgrace to their leader.
Pick up his book and read, then come back and tell me if he resembles buhari by any stretch of the imagination.
Your Buhari will do as he like till 2019 or 2023 depending on how stupid the electorate is, and Nigeria would probably have regressed by decades. That is something I can bet on .
Every possible indices of development have gone worse and still going worse. He would probably become a case-study on how to plunge a country into recession and under-development, effortlessly and repeatedly.

PMB is Mugabe in the making.

richidinho:


Seen my brother, help educate that foooool up there
I think the headline is misleading

You know nothing..... why is it called "appoint"

GreatSE:


Do you know how many Names the NJC send to him?..... many if you don't know, and the politics behind it is that sometimes the president will force NJC to include some certain names he wants.

The president cannot force the NJC to do anything. The NJC does not answer to him

GreatSE:


You know nothing..... why is it called appoint

No one has been appointed dear. The names are awaiting confirmation by the Senate