President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, assented to a constitutional amendment bill bringing uniformity to the retirement age and pension rights of judicial officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the signing of the constitutional amendment bill, retirement age and pension rights of judicial officers have been effectively brought into uniformity and other related matters,\u201d a statement signed by the State House Director of Information, Abiodun Oladunjoye, read on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n The statement was titled, \u2018President Tinubu assents to constitutional amendment bill on uniformity in retirement age of judicial officers.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn exercising the powers vested in him under the 1999 Constitution, as amended, President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, at the State House assented to a fresh amendment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPresident Tinubu signed into law the \u2018Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) (No.37), 2023\u2019 presented by the outgoing 9th National Assembly,\u201d the statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n While signing the amendment bill into law, Tinubu pledged his administration\u2019s dedication to strengthening the judiciary, ensuring the rule of law, and empowering judicial officers to execute their responsibilities effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n Until Thursday, the retirement age of high court judges was 65 years while it is 70 years for\u00a0 Justices of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n The new law extends the retirement age of high court judges from 65 to 70 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, assented to a constitutional amendment bill bringing uniformity to the retirement age and pension rights of judicial officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[764,3909,7042,7107],"class_list":["post-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-bill","tag-judge","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu","tag-retirement-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13930,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions\/13930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}