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PHOTOS: President Buhari Swears-in Walter Onnoghen As New Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria

By Farouk Mohammed
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Nigeria’s President swears in the new Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen at the State House in Abuja.

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Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen is the new chief justice of Nigeria, following the retirement of Justice Mahmud Mohammed who clocked 70 on Thursday, November 10.

Onnoghen is remarkably the first southerner to be CJN since 1987 when Ayo Irikefe retired.

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