The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad has sworn-in the eighteen newly elevated Judges of the Court of Appeal.
While inaugurating them at the Supreme Court in Abuja, Justice Tanko Muhammad urged the new judges to discharge their duties within the ambit of the law.
He advised them to avoid irresistible gifts that might land them in trouble in the discharge of their duty.
“In life, gifts and wealth that are not worked for, are always wrapped in calamity and destruction. Flee from them and keep your head high above the murky waters of corruption so that you can conveniently be counted among the very best in the Nigerian judiciary.”
Among the inaugurated judges was Justice Adebukola Banjoko who had on May, 2018, sentenced a former governor of Taraba state, Jolly Nyame, to 14 years in Custodial facility without an option of fine.
Below are the names of the new sworn-in Judges and their states of origin.
- Mohammed Danjuma (Niger State)
- Muhammad Ibrahim Sirajo (Plateau)
- Abdul-Azeez Waziri (Adamawa)
- Yusuf A. Bashir (Taraba)
- Usman A. Musale (Yobe)
- Ibrahim Wakili Jauro (Yobe)
- Abba Bello Mohammed (Kano State)
- Bature Isah Gafai (Katsina)
- Danlami Zama Senchi (Kebbi)
- Mohammed Lawal Abubakar (Sokoto)
- Hassan Muslim Sule (Zamfara)
- Kenneth Ikechukwu Amadi (Imo)
- Peter Oyinkenimiemi Affen (Bayelsa)
- Sybil Onyeji Gbagi (Delta)
- Olasunbo Goodluck (Lagos)
- Adebukola Banjoko (Ogun)
- Olabode Adegbehingbe (Ondo)
- Bola Samuel Ademola (Ondo)
