Monday, 10 October 2016

DSS Raids: NJC to hold emergency meeting on Tuesday

The National Judicial Council will on Tuesday hold an emergency session, it was learnt on Sunday.

According to The Punch, the NJC originally scheduled the meeting solely to consider the candidate most suitable for appointment as the next Chief Justice of Nigeria from the list forwarded to it by the Federal Judicial Service Commission last week.

But following the raids on the houses of some judicial officers by the men of the Department of State Services over the weekend, it was learnt that the outgoing CJN and the Chairman of both the NJC and FJSC, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, directed that the issue be included on the agenda of the scheduled emergency meeting.

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