{"id":176044,"date":"2019-12-15T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=176044"},"modified":"2019-12-15T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T10:07:59","slug":"nigeria-2019-elections-court-of-appeal-president-bulkachuwa-makes-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=176044","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria 2019 elections: Court of Appeal President, Bulkachuwa makes revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, has revealed that a total of 805 cases that emanated from the 2019 general elections in Nigeria have been successfully handled.<\/p>\n

Bulkachuwa also revealed that in the outgoing year, a total of 4,007 judgments were delivered, while 7,911 motions were also disposed off by the appellate court.<\/p>\n

Justice Bulkachuwa spoke at the 2019 annual conference of the Appeal Court Justices held in Abuja at the weekend.<\/p>\n

She showered encomiums on her colleagues on the Appeal Court bench \u201cfor their hard work and resilience during adjudications of the election cases\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Appeal Court President, at the conference attended by Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Muhammad Tanko Ibrahim, admitted that handling of the cases was hectic.<\/p>\n

She added that it took the collective efforts of the Justices for the successes recorded and to make the country\u2019s democracy stronger.<\/p>\n

She attributed the performance of the court to the reforms carried out on its Rules and the Practice Direction which are now giving speedy hearing legal matters before the court.<\/p>\n

Justice Bulkachuwa further disclosed that four justices of the court have been elevated to the Supreme Court bench.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, has revealed that a total of 805 cases that emanated from the 2019 general elections in Nigeria have been successfully handled. Bulkachuwa also revealed that in the outgoing year, a total of 4,007 judgments were delivered, while 7,911 motions were also disposed off by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176045,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,1,3],"tags":[11480,4644,10502,13797,4866,62],"class_list":["post-176044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-more","category-news","tag-nigeria-2","tag-2019-presidential-election","tag-appeal-court","tag-balkachuwa","tag-crime","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176044","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=176044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}