Category: Judiciary

Retiring justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court, Justice Muhammad Dattijo, has berated his colleagues for destroying the image of the Judiciary by revelling in bribery and corruption. At a farewell ceremony organised in his honour by the Supreme Court in Abuja on Friday, Dattijo, who retired on October 27 as he clocked 70, decried the tragic turn of events at the apex court, noting that the current Judiciary he is exiting from is far from the one he voluntarily joined and desired to serve and be identified with. According to…

There appears to be a crack at the Supreme Court, barely 24 hours after it validated the election of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC). This is as a retiring justice of the court, Musa Dattijo Muhammad, who reportedly pulled out from the seven-man panel that dismissed all the appeals that sought to remove President Tinubu from office, has accused the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, of abusing the powers of his office. Justice Muhammad, who spent 47 years in active judicial service,…

A former Justice of the Supreme Court, Muhammad Dattijo, has revealed that the number of Supreme Court Justices, which has hit an all-time-low of 10, has remained so due to deliberate action. Justice Dattijo stated this without mincing words, in his speech at a valedictory court session held by the Supreme Court yesterday, to mark his retirement from the apex court bench, having attained the statutory retirement age of 70 years, on October 27. Justice Dattijo said, “It is all about the absolute powers vested in the office of the…