{"id":179221,"date":"2024-08-25T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T08:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-swears-in-justice-kekere-ekun-as-23rd-cjn\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T10:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T08:31:24","slug":"nigeria-tinubu-swears-in-justice-kekere-ekun-as-23rd-cjn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-swears-in-justice-kekere-ekun-as-23rd-cjn\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu Swears in Justice Kekere-Ekun As 23rd CJN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Abuja \u2014 President Bola Tinubu on Friday administered the oath of office on Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the 23rd Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">She will operate in acting capacity until her due confirmation by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Justice Kekere-Ekun took her oaths at about 11:38am at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja and took her rightful sitting position in the Council Chambers on the left handside of the President at exactly 11:45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">She is assuming her new role as CJN following the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230389.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>Abuja \u2014 President Bola Tinubu on Friday administered the oath of office on Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun as the 23rd Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). She will operate in acting capacity until her due confirmation by the Senate. Justice Kekere-Ekun took her oaths at about 11:38am at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179222,"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":[13206,258,256,26040,6852,49358,257,4687,393,254,13017,8308],"class_list":["post-179221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-23rd","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cjn","tag-justice","tag-kekereekun","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swears","tag-tinubu"],"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\/179221","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=179221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}