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September 18, 2019
The Chief Justice ofNigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, will on Monday, September 23,2019, swear in 38 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria at the main courtroom of theSupreme Court.
The swearing-inceremony is one of the several programmes lined up to herald the 2019/2020legal year of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
As customary, duringsuch programmes, the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria will deliver astate-of-the Judiciary address which is ostensible to highlight the performanceof the Supreme Court, and by extension, the Nigerian Judiciary in the outgoing2018/2019 legal year.
It will be recalledthat out of the 117 legal practitioners that applied for the Rank of SeniorAdvocate of Nigeria in 2019, 38 were successful at the end of the rigorousexercise. Out of this number, three are academics while 35 are advocates.
The Supreme Courtcommenced its annual vacation after a remarkably successful 2018/2019 legalyear on Monday 29 July 2019.