{"id":179121,"date":"2024-08-23T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-inaugurates-kekere-ekun-as-acting-cjn-urges-upholding-judiciarys-integrity\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T22:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:28:42","slug":"nigeria-tinubu-inaugurates-kekere-ekun-as-acting-cjn-urges-upholding-judiciarys-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-inaugurates-kekere-ekun-as-acting-cjn-urges-upholding-judiciarys-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu Inaugurates Kekere-Ekun As Acting CJN, Urges Upholding Judiciary&#8217;s Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">President Bola Tinubu set an agenda for the new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ms Kekere-Ekun, at her inauguration on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialabat?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Bola<\/a><\/strong> Tinubu inaugurated on Friday Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Ms Kekere-Ekun&#8217;s inauguration as the acting CJN followed the retirement of her predecessor, Olukayode Ariwoola, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Her substantive appointment is subject to Senate confirmation to become <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/727225-tinubu-swears-in-kekere-ekun-as-nigerias-acting-chief-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> 23rd chief&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230421.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu set an agenda for the new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ms Kekere-Ekun, at her inauguration on Friday. President Bola Tinubu inaugurated on Friday Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Ms Kekere-Ekun&#8217;s inauguration as the acting CJN followed the retirement of her predecessor, Olukayode Ariwoola, who reached the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[8865,258,256,26040,7630,8339,28235,49358,257,4687,393,254,8308,18279,6810],"class_list":["post-179121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-acting","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cjn","tag-inaugurates","tag-integrity","tag-judiciarys","tag-kekereekun","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-upholding","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}