In this article we shall be discussing the followings:
Who is a chief judge?
Who is the first Supreme Court justice of Nigeria?
Who was fist female chief justice of Nigeria?
Who is current chief justice of Nigeria?
Past justices of the supreme court of
nigeria.
Brief history of chief justice of Nigeria from 1914 till date.
Who is a chief judge?
A Chief Judge or Justice (also known
as a Presiding Judge or Justice) is the
lead judicial administrative officer
within any multijudge court. The Chief
Judge works alongside the Clerk of
Court in his or her respective court by
overseeing the day to day operations of
that court.
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Who was the fist chief justice of Nigeria?
Sir Edwin Arney Speed was the first Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1914 to 1918. He was highly thought of by Lord Lugard who secured his appointment as the Chief Justice of the amalgamated Southern and Northern protectorates.
Who was the first female chief justice of Nigeria?
Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (1967): First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and its Chief Justice (2009–2014). She was also the first female lawyer in Northern Nigeria, as well as the first female Judge of the Kano High Court, Nigeria.
Who is current chief justice of Nigeria?
Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad CFR Is the incumbent Chief Justice of Nigeria. He was formerly a Justice of the Nigerian Courts of Appeal.
Past justices of the supreme court of nigeria.
List of Chief Justice of Nigeria
The following are the List of Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1914 till date.
1. Sir Edwin Speed 1914–1918
2. Sir Ralph Combe 1918–1929
3. Donald Kingdon 1929–1946
4. Sir John Verity 1946–1954
5. Sir Stafford Sutton 1955–1958
6. Sir Adetokunbo Ademola
1958–1972
7. Taslim Olawale Elias
1972–1975
8.Darnley Arthur Alexander
1975–1979
9. Atanda Fatai Williams
1979–1983
10. George Sodeinde Sowemimo
1983–1985
11. Ayo Gabriel Irikefe
1985–1987
12. Mohammed Bello 1987–1995
13. Muhammad Lawal Uwais
1995–2006
14. Salihu Moddibo Alfa Belgore
2006–2007
15. Idris Legbo Kutigi
2007–2009
16. Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu
2009–2011
17. Dahiru Mustapher
2011–2012
18. Aloma Mariam Mukhtar
2012–2014
19. Mahmud Mohammed
2014–2016
20. Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen
2017–2019
21. Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad
2019.
The son of Major-General J. J. Combe, he was
educated at Haileybury College and Exeter
College, Oxford, from which he graduated in
1894, and was called to the bar by the Inner
Temple in 1897. He was appointed Crown
Advocate of British East Africa in 1905 and
Attorney-General of the Protectorate in 1912. He
was appointed Attorney-General of Nigeria in
1914 and Chief Justice of Nigeria in 1918,
serving in this post until his retirement in 1929.
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He remains Nigeria's longest serving Chief
Justice. He served under four colonial Governors:
He had
previously served as the Attorney-General of
Nigeria, from 1919 to 1925. He also edited and
or composed several authoritative books about
West African laws.
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Verity was born in London in 1892, the son of
Rev. Heron Beresford Verity, he attended Vale
College, Thanet then Diocesan College, British
Honduras. "He was appointed Puisne Judge
in British Guiana in 1936 and in 1939, he
became Chief Justice of Zanzibar. After the end
of his tenure as Chief Justice of Nigeria
(1946-54), Verity was commissioner of Law
Revision, Nigeria and co-authored a report with
Fatayi Williams on the revised laws of Western
Nigeria. On the 25 February 1918 he married his
cousin Grace the daughter of Mabel Rochat,
(both grandchildren of Charles Felix Verity of
Vale Lodge, Winkfield Berkshire)
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He attended the Presbyterian Primary School,
Okurike Town between 1959 and 1965.
He later proceeded to Accra, Ghana to attend
Odorgorno Secondary School, Adabraka, Accra,
Ghana between 1967 and 1972 for his West
African Examination Council (WAEC) Exams.
He was at Accra Academy, Accra Ghana
between 1972 and 1974 for his WAEC (A-
Levels) before proceeding to the University of
Ghana, Legon, Ghana between 1974 and 1977
to obtain his Bachelor of Law Degree (LL.B
(Hons)) and graduated with 2nd Class Upper
Division.
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Biography of Chief justice of NigeriaBrief history of above chief justice of Nigeria from 1914 till date.
Sir Edwin Arney Speed
(11 March 1869 – 14
December 1941) was the Chief Justice of
Nigeria from 1914 to 1918. He was highly
thought of by Lord Lugard who secured his
appointment as the Chief Justice of the
amalgamated Southern and Northern
protectorates. He was tasked by Lugard to unify
the laws of the two colonies and to establish a
single Supreme, Provincial and Native court
system.
Continue ReadingSir Ralph Molyneux Combe
(2 December 1872 –
16 February 1946) was a British barrister and
colonial judge.
Combe was knighted in the 1920 New Year
Honours.
Continue ReadingSir Donald Kingdon
(24 November 1883 – 17
December 1961) was a British judicial officer
who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nigeria from 1929 to 1946.
Graeme Thomson, Donald Cameron, Bernard
Bourdillon and Arthur Richards.
continue ReadingSir John Verity
(1892 – 9 April 1970) was a
British expatriate judge who was Chief Justice of
Zanzibar[1] from 1939 until his appointment as
Chief Justice of British Guiana in 1941. He was
appointed Chief Justice of Nigeria in 1945.
continue ReadingSir Stafford William Powell Foster-Sutton
(24
December 1897 – 6 November 1991) was a
British judge, who served as Chief Justice of
Nigeria from 1955 to 1958.
continue ReadingOmoba Sir Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola,
KBE, GCON, PC, SAN
(1 February 1906 – 29
January 1993) was a Nigerian jurist who was the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
from 1958 to 1972. He was appointed as Chief
Justice on April 1, 1958, replacing Sir Stafford
Foster Sutton who was retiring. Ademola was a
son of Oba Sir Ladapo Ademola II, the Alake of
the Egba clan of Nigeria. He was the first
chancellor of the University of Benin.
continue ReadingTaslim Olawale Elias
(11 November 1914 – 14
August 1991) was a Nigerian jurist. He was
Attorney-General and Chief Justice of Nigeria and
a judge and President of the International Court
of Justice . He was a scholar who modernised
and extensively revised the laws of Nigeria.
continue ReadingSir Darnley Alexander , SAN CFR, GCFR
(28
January 1920 – 10 February 1989) was a
Nigerian Jurist and former Chief Justice of
Nigeria.Chief Atanda Fatai Williams, SAN CFR, CON,
GCFR
(22 October 1918 [1] – 10 April 2002) was
a Nigerian Jurist and former Chief Justice of
Nigeria.Chief George Sodeinde Sowemimo, SAN, CON,
CON, GCFR
(8 November 1920 – 29 November
1997) was a Nigerian Jurist and former Chief
Justice of Nigeria. Prior to becoming a
Supreme Court judge, Sowemimo is remembered
as the judge in the treasonable felony charge of
the State v Omisade and others. Chief Ayo Gabriel Irikefe , SAN OFR, CON, GCFR
(March 3, 1922 – August 1, 1996) was a
Nigerian Jurist and former Chief Justice of Nigeria.
Justice Mohammed Bello GCON
(1930 – 4
November 2004) was a Nigerian jurist and
statesman who was the Chief Justice of Nigeria
from 1987 to 1995.
Mohammed Lawal Uwais
(born 12 June 1936)
was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Nigeria from 1995 until 2006. Later he chaired a
commission that published a controversial report
on electoral reform.Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore, GCON
(born
January 17, 1937) is a Nigerian Jurist and
former Chief Justice of Nigeria. Idris Legbo Kutigi OFR, GCON
(31 December
1939 – 21 October 2018) was a Nigerian lawyer
and judge. He was Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice in Niger State before
becoming a high court judge. Legbo Kutigi joined
the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992 and served
as Chief Justice from 30 January 2007 until 30
December 2009.
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Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu
(28 August 1941
– 18 July 2018) was a Nigerian lawyer who
served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of
Nigeria . He is from Ushongo in what is now
Benue State . Katsina-Alu has been a member of
the court since 1998.Dahiru Musdapher
(15 July 1942 – 22 January
2018) was a Nigerian jurist. In 2011, he was
appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nigeria. He served as Chief Judge of
the Kano State Judiciary from 1979 to 1985, and
as a member of the Court of Appeal from 1985
until 2003.
Aloma Mariam Mukhtar
(born 20 November
1944) is a Nigerian jurist and former Chief
Justice of Nigeria from July 2012 to November
2014. She was called to the English Bar in
November, 1966 and to the Nigerian Bar in
1967.Justice Mohammed
was born on November 10,
1946 in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State,
northeastern Nigeria. He obtained a Bachelor
of Law degree at Ahmadu Bello University in
1970 and was called to the Nigerian bar, the
same year he graduated from the Nigerian Law
School.Hon. Justice W.S. Nkanu Onnoghen
was born
on the 22nd December, 1950 at Okurike Town,
Biase L.G.A. of Cross Rivers State.Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad CFR
(born 31
December 1953) is a Nigerian Jurist, Justice of
the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the incumbent
Chief Justice of Nigeria. He was formerly a
Justice of the Nigerian Courts of Appeal.
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