President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
She is to act as the CJN pending confirmation by the Senate.
Kekere-Ekun was sworn in at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja on August 23, 2024, following the retirement of her predecessor, Olukayode Ariwoola.
Ariwoola had disclosed that he signed off on the new rules following reviews by his successor, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, and brother justices of the apex court, namely, Justice Inyang Okoro, Justice Moronkeji Helen Ogunwumiju, Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN, and Yakubu C. Maikyau, SAN.
He expressed concern that the rules regulating procedures in the apex court were those made in 1985 when information technology, electronic transactions, and global telecommunications, among others, were either not in existence or in their formative stages.
