The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has tested positive for COVID-19. This was disclosed today by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria in Abuja.
According to reports, the CJN is presently in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, receiving treatment. The CJN was conspicuously absent from Monday’s new legal year ceremony of the Supreme Court during which 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria were sworn in. In the absence of the CJN, Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour being the next most senior Justice of the Supreme Court presided over the event.
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