|
List Of Justice Of The Nigerian Courts Of Appeals
This is a list of justices of the Nigerian courts of appeals arranged in alphabetical order. The list also reflect one or more justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria who had at one time served as justice of the appeallate courts of Nigeria. A * Ahmad O. Belgore * A. I. Katsina-Alu * Ayo Salami *Akintola Olufemi Eyiwunmi *Aloma Mariam Mukhtar *Atanda Fatai Williams *Abai Ikwechegh B * Bode Rhodes-Vivour C D *Darnley Alexander * Dan Onuorah Ibekwe * Dahiru Musdapher E F G *George Sodeinde Sowemimo H I *Idris Legbo Kutigi *Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad * Istifanus Thomas J * John Afolabi Fabiyi * John Taylor K L M * Mahmud Mohammed *Mohammed Uwais * Mohammed Bello * Mustapha Akanbi N * Nasir Mamman O P Q Chief Jerry Solomon S * Suleiman Galadima * Salihu Moddibo Alfa Belgore T *Taslim Olawale Elias U *Umaru Abdullahi V W * Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen X Y Z * Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa References {{DEFAULTSORT:Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeals Nigerian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Nigeria
The Supreme Court of Nigeria (SCN) is the highest court in Nigeria, and is located in the Central District, Abuja, in what is known as the Three Arms Zone, so called due to the proximity of the offices of the Presidential Complex, the National Assembly, and the Supreme Court. Overview In 1963, the Federal Republic of Nigeria was proclaimed and Nnamdi Azikiwe became its first President. Appeals from the Federal Supreme Court to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were abolished at that point, and the Supreme Court became the highest court in Nigeria. In 1976, the Court of Appeal (originally known as the Federal Court of Appeal) was established as a national court to entertain appeals from the High Courts of each of Nigeria's 36 states, which are the trial courts of general jurisdiction. The Supreme Court in its current form was shaped by the Supreme Court Act of 1990 and by Chapter VII of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. Under the 1999 constitution, the Supreme Court h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Taylor (Nigerian Judge)
John Idowu Conrad Taylor (24 August 1917 – 7 November 1973) was a Nigerian jurist, Judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (1964 to 1967), and the first Chief Justice of Lagos State (1967 to 1973). Education and early life John Taylor was born in Lagos and was the fourth child of Eusebius James Alexander Taylor (a prominent lawyer and nationalist) and Remilekun Alice Taylor (née Williams). He attended Olowogbowo Methodist School for his primary education and Methodist Boys High School for part of his secondary education. He left for England in 1929 where he completed his secondary education at Culford School in Bury St. Edmunds, between April 1929 and July 1936. He entered King's College London in 1936 to read law, before transferring to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1937 where he was a Boxing Blue. He graduated with a second class degree in the Honour School of Jurisprudence and was subsequently called to the Bar at the Middle Temple on 14 January 1941. He returned to Nigeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Judges
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa
Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, OFR (born March 1950) is a Nigerian judge and former President of the Nigerian courts of appeal She is the first Female to be the President of the Nigerian court of Appeal. Early life Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkacha OFR (Rtd) was born on 6th March, 1950 to Alhaji Abubakar Gidado El-Nafaty and Hajiya Aishatu Dudu El-Nafaty. An indigene of Nafada Local Government Area of Gombe State. Education She began her Primary Education at Tudun Wada Primary School in Kaduna and also attended Senior Primary School, in Kaduna - Kaduna State between 1957 in 1963, where she acquired her First School Leaving Certificate in 1963. She later enrolled at Queen Elizabeth School in Ilorin - Kwara State where she obtained her West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1968. Honourable Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa proceeded to Abdullahi Bayero College Kano for her GCE ‘A’ Levels between 1971 and 1972 and in 1975 she obtained her LL.B (Hons) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen
Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen (born 22 December 1950) is a Nigerian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Nigeria from 2017 to 2019. Before joining the Supreme Court, he was a judge in Cross River State and a justice of the Court of Appeal. Early life and education Walter Onnoghen was born on the 22 December 1950 at Okurike Town, Biase Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State. Onnoghen had his primary school education at the Presbyterian Primary School, Okurike Town between 1959 and 1965. From there, he proceeded to Accra in Ghana, obtaining his West African Examination Council (WAEC) O-Level certificate from Odorgonno Senior High School between 1967 and 1972,and his WAEC (A-Levels) at Accra Academy between 1972 and 1974. He graduated from the University of Ghana at Legon, Ghana in 1977 and from the Nigerian Law School in Lagos in 1978. Career Before his appointment as the Chief Justice of the Federation, he worked with the Ministry of Justice, Ikeja, Lagos, Ogun St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umaru Abdullahi
Umaru Abdullahi, CON (born November 30, 1939) is a Nigerian Jurist and former President of the Nigerian courts of appeals. Law career Justice Umaru was called to the English Bar in November 1966 and to the Nigeria Bar in 1968, and was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeal in 1983 as Justice. In 1987, he got a transfer to Kastina State to assist in setting up of the state judiciary and three years later, he was appointed as President of the Nigerian courts of appeals, a position he held for ten years, between 1999 and 2009 and was succeeded by Justice Ayo Salami A biography has been written about him titled, 'Once Upon Umaru' by Ibe Ikwechegh. Justice Abdullahi holds the prestigious title of Walin Hausa . See also *List of Justice of the Nigerian courts of appeals This is a list of justices of the Nigerian courts of appeals arranged in alphabetical order. The list also reflect one or more justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria who had at one time served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taslim Olawale Elias
Taslim Olawale Elias (11 November 1914 – 14 August 1991) was a Nigerian jurist who served as minister of Justice and attorney-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1966, Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1972 to 1975 and president of the International Court of Justice from 1982 to 1985. He was a scholar who modernised and extensively revised the laws of Nigeria. Youth and studies Elias was born into the traditional aristocracy of Lagos, then the capital of Nigeria, on 11 November 1914. He received his secondary education at the Church Missionary Society Grammar School and Igbobi College in Lagos. He married Ganiat Yetunde Fowosere, and the couple would have five children together (three sons, two daughters). After passing the Cambridge School Certificate examination, he worked as an assistant in the Government Audit Department. In 1935 he joined the Nigerian Railway and served in the Chief Accountant's Office for nine years. While working at the Nigerian Railway, Elias became an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salihu Moddibo Alfa Belgore
Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore (born 17 January 1937) is a Nigerian Jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria from 2006 to 2007. Biography Alfa Belgore was born on January 17, 1937, to a Fulani family in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State north-central Nigeria. He attended Okesuna Primary School as well as Middle School at Ilorin before he proceeded to Ilesa Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in Law in 1963 and also trained at Inner Temple for one year before he returned to Nigeria in 1964 and served magistrate in Northern Nigeria. In 1986, he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice. He held several positions in the judiciary before he was appointed as Chief Justice of Nigeria in July 2006, a position he held until January 2007 when he retired. Membership *Member, Nigerian Bar Association *Member, International Bar Association *Member, Nigerian Body of Benchers *Overseas Master of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suleiman Galadima
Suleiman Galadima CFR (born October 1946) is a Nigerian jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Early life Justice Galadima was born in October 1946 in Nasarawa State, Northern Nigeria. He attended Government College Keffi where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1965 before he proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Law in 1977 and was Call to the bar after he graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 1978. He later received a master's degree in law from the University of Jos in 1985. Law career He joined the Anambra State Judiciary as Magistrate in July 1988 and in 1990, he was appointed as Attorney General and the Commission for Justice, Plateau state. In May 1991, he became the High Court Judge of Plateau State. At the creation of Nasarawa State in 1996, he was appointed as Chief Judge of the State. On December 9, 1998, he was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justice. In August 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasir Mamman
Nasir Mamman GCON (2 July 1929 – 13 April 2019), titled Galadiman Katsina from 1992 to 2019, was a Nigerian jurist and nobleman who served as President of the Courts of Appeal from 1978 to 1992. Biography Mamman was born in 1929 in Katsina. He graduated in 1947 from Kaduna College (later Barewa College) and read Latin at the University College of Ibadan. He was instructed in the law and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1956. Mamman, Mohammed Bello, and Justice Buba Ardo went on to become the first northerners educated in the common law to be in-government since the fall of the Sokoto Caliphate. On his return, he was made Crown Counsel Crown counsel are lawyers, generally in Common Law jurisdictions, who provide advice to the government and acts as prosecutors in cases. In various jurisdictions their title can vary and they could also be known as the Queen's Advocate, King's Advo ... in 1956 and proceeded on for the next two decades to hold several positions in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustapha Akanbi
Muhammad Mustapha Adebayo Akanbi (11 September 1932 – 3 June 2018) was a Nigerian lawyer and judge, who served as President of the Nigerian Court of Appeal (1992–1999) and inaugural head of Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (2000–2005). Early years Muhammad Mustapha Adebayo Akanbi was born on 11 September 1932 at Accra, Ghana, to Muslim parents from Ilorin in Nigeria. After completing secondary school he worked as an Executive officer in the Ghana Civil Service. He was also active as a trade unionist. Moving to Nigeria, he worked in the School Broadcasting Department of the Ministry of Education. Lawyer and judge Akanbi obtained a scholarship to study law at the Institute of Administration, now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, followed by legal studies in the United Kingdom. He was called to the English Bar in 1963, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in January 1964. He joined the Ministry of Justice and became a Senior State Counsel in 1968. In 1969 he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Bello (judge)
Mohammed Bello (1930 – 4 November 2004) was a Nigerian Jurist who was the Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1987 to 1995. Early life Bello was born in Katsina in 1930. His father, Muhammadu Gidado was an Islamic jurist and held the position of mufti in the royal court of Muhammadu Dikko; he was a descendant of Mallam Isyaka Daura, a contemporary of Uthman dan Fodio the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate. Bello received a traditional Islamic education at home with illustrious scholars before being sent to Katsina Elementary School and Katsina Middle School and attended Barewa College from 1945 to 1948. Education After leaving college, he trained as a manager at the United Africa Company (hitherto the Royal Niger Company). However, on the advice of Northern elders he was selected alongside his childhood friend Mamman Nasir to read Latin at University College Ibadan before proceeding to England where he was instructed in the law and called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1956. He com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |