After about three months of investigating a six-count charge bothering on corruption levelled against him by the Federal Government, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, was on Thursday convicted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) sitting in Abuja, Delivering the three-man panel, the Chairman, Mr Danladi Umar, also ordered the removal […]
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Justice Onnoghen Quits To Avert Forced Retirement
The embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, who over the past three months had been facing corruption charges, resigned his appointment with immediate effect on Friday. Onnoghen, who has been in the ‘eyes of the anti-corruption storm’ over the past months reportedly turned in his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari late […]