After being nominated as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Hon Justice Onnoghen was confirmed by the Senate on 1st March, 2017, and sworn in on the 7th of March, 2017. <\/p>\n
On January 11, 2019, a petition filed by the civil rights group against the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) alleging that he owns \u201d sundry accounts primarily funded through cash deposits made by himself up to as recently as 10th August 2016, which appear to have been run in a manner inconsistent with financial transparency and the code of conduct for public officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
On January 14, 2019, The trial commenced January 14, 2019 at Code of Conduct Tribunal but Onnoghen was absent. It was then adjourned to the following week. The next hearing was slated for January 22, 2019 but he failed to show up in court again. Following his absence again, President Muhammadu Buhari suspended him on January 25, 2019. <\/p>\n
On April 4, 2019, the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen resigned. This happened a day after the National Judicial Council (NJC) recommended that he be compulsorily retired for misconduct.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25360,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-25353","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25361,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25353\/revisions\/25361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25353"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=25353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}