The newly inaugurated Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, Justice Salisu Garba, has been appointed the Administrator of the National Judicial Institute (NJI).
This followed the expiration of the tenure of the former administrator, Justice Rosaline Bozimo, on Friday, July 30.
The National Judicial Council, headed by Justice Tanko Muhammad, recommended Justice Garba for the appointment barely two months after he was inaugurated as the substantive Chief Judge of the FCT High Court.
The spokesman of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Yusuf Ahuruaka, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the appointment takes effect from August 1 and is for three years.
The statement listed Justices M.A. Ope-Agbe, who was administrator from 2000 to 2003 and who was from the high court bench; O. Olatawura, 1991 to 1995 and A.O. Obaseki, 1995 to 2000, who both came from the Supreme Court, as the other administrators to be appointed from the bench.
The NJI organizes and conducts continuing judicial education and training for all cadres of judicial officers in the country and other training programmes in collaboration with other organisations in Nigeria and abroad.
Justices Hussein Baba-Yusuf and Sylvanus Chinedu Oriji are the next most senior judges of the court.
