{"id":19263,"date":"2024-08-23T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19263"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:04:38","slug":"tinubu-swears-in-kudirat-kekere-ekun-as-acting-cjn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19263","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Swears-In Kudirat Kekere-Ekun As Acting CJN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as 23rd Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatekeepersnews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gatekeepers News<\/a> reports that Tinubu who travelled to France on Monday, August 19, 2024, had to cut his trip short and arrive the country around 2:00 am to swear in the CJN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Justice Kekere-Ekun took her Oaths at about 11:38 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recall that the former CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, retired on Thursday after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Present at the event were other Justices of the Supreme Court; the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; leadership of the House of Representatives, represented by Prof Julius Ihonbvere; the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwoolu and the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ariwoola.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume; National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris were also present.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as 23rd Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263"}],"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=19263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19266,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263\/revisions\/19266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}