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By Ise-Oluwa Ige

On November 20, 2014, first female Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar handed over the baton of leadership in the nation’s judiciary to the most senior justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Mahmud Mohammed.

The exercise followed the approval of recommendation by the National Judicial Council (NJC) by former President Jonathan Goodluck

Justice Muhktar bowed out of the bench for clocking the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.

Justice Mahmud whose appointment was approved by President Jonathan Goodluck was sworn into office on November 20, 2014.

The new CJN took over a Supreme Court that was composed of 14 justices excluding himself at the time.

Although section 230 (2) allows appointment of a Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and a maximum of 21 justices into the Supreme Court, only the CJN and 14 other justices composed the Supreme Court of Nigeria under the leadership of Justice Mahmud Mohammed.

Before the Justice Mahmud’s Court, there were times, particularly between 1990 and 1992 when the number of serving justices of the court oscillated between 11 and 13.
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