{"id":9318,"date":"2022-06-27T21:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2022-06-27T21:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T21:10:55","slug":"justice-tanko-muhammad-resigns-as-cjn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9318","title":{"rendered":"Justice Tanko Muhammad Resigns As CJN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Justice Tanko Muhammad has resigned as the Chief Justice of Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Citing sources, Channels Television confirmed that he resigned on Sunday night on the grounds of ill-health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When contacted, the Special Adviser on Media and Communication to CJN, Ahuraka Yusuf Isah, said, \u201cAll I know is that he\u2019s going to declare open a workshop this morning at the NJI (National Judicial Institute).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other attempts to reach close associates of the CJN, such as Dr Mike Ozekhome (SAN), proved abortive as they didn\u2019t take their calls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following his resignation, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola will be the next acting Chief Justice of Nigeria sequel to Senate\u2019s confirmation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Tanko Muhammad has resigned as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. Citing sources, Channels Television confirmed that he resigned on Sunday night on the grounds of ill-health. When contacted, the Special Adviser on Media and Communication to CJN, Ahuraka Yusuf Isah, said, \u201cAll I know is that he\u2019s going to declare open a workshop this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2203,5357,863],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cjn","tag-justice-tanko-muhammad","tag-resigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318"}],"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=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9320,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions\/9320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}