President Bola Tinubu presided over the swearing-in of Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN at the Council Chambers, Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Monday.
The Senate last week confirmed Kekere-Ekun as the new CJN after her screening on the floor of the upper legislative chamber.
President Tinubu had named her the new acting CJN following the retirement of her predecessor, Justice Olukoyede Ariwoola.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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