{"id":136589,"date":"2019-07-17T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136589"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:08:22","slug":"breaking-chief-justice-of-nigeria-senators-begin-screening-to-confirm-tanko-muhammad-as-cjn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136589","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Chief Justice Of Nigeria: Senators Begin Screening, To Confirm Tanko Muhammad As CJN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BREAKING-Buhari-Extends-Tanko-Muhammads-Tenure-As-Acting-CJN.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has begun the screening of Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers went gone into an executive session and resolved to begin the screening and confirmation today.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari had last Thursday presented the name of the acting chief justice for confirmation as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari&#8217;s request followed the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to make Muhammad the substantive chief justice of Nigeria.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col block-story-object block-story-object-link block-story-object-link-story\" about=\"\/2019\/07\/16\/breaking-senate-set-confirm-tanko-mohammed-chief-justice-nigeria-tomorrow\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-content-body\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"node node-story node-promoted node-sticky taxonomy-politics view-mode-embedded_link block-module block-module-small block-module-story\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-module-image block-module-image-scale-to-fit\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-background-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/BREAKING-Chief-Justice-Of-Nigeria-Senators-Begin-Screening-To-Confirm-Tanko-Muhammad-As-CJN.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Muhammad was first appointed in January after the suspension the then-Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen, who was accused of false declaration of asset and disgraced out of office.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Senate has begun the screening of Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. The lawmakers went gone into an executive session and resolved to begin the screening and confirmation today. President Muhammadu Buhari had last Thursday presented the name of the acting chief justice for confirmation as the substantive Chief Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,1,3],"tags":[8193,4866,9944,12763,8918],"class_list":["post-136589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-more","category-news","tag-cjn","tag-crime","tag-justice","tag-justice-tanko","tag-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}