Okurike Town, Biase LGA, Cross River State
– Pupil State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Ikeja, Lagos State, 1978-1979;
– Partner, Effiom Ekong & Company, Calabar, Cross River State, 1979-1988;
– Principal Partner/Head of Chamber, Walter Onnoghen & Associates, Calabar, Cross River State, 1988-1989;
– Judge, High Court, Cross Rivers State Judiciary, Calabar, Cross River State, 1989-1998;
– Chairman of Cross Rivers State Armed Robbery and Firm Arms Tribunal, 1990- 1993;
– Judge, High Court, River State, 1992-2004;
– Chairman, Judicial Enquiry into the Crisis between Students of the University of Calabar and Obufa Esuk Orok Community, Calabar, Cross River State, 1996;
– Chairman, Failed Bank Tribunal, Ibadan Zone, 1998;
– Justice of the Court of Appeal, 1998-2005;
– Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, 2005-;
– Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, 2016;
– Chief Justice of Nigeria, March 2017 (resigned in 2019).
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
In 2007, Justice Onnoghen played a huge role in 2007 election which saw the Late Umaru Yar’adua as President of the federal republic of Nigeria. He had a dissenting judgment that indeed annulled the presidential election. His position was however a minority judgment.
In February 2016, Justice Onnoghen led a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court who reviewed and upheld the death sentence of Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev. King) of the Christian Praying Assembly.
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