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Rahila Hadea Cudjoe
Justice Rahila Hadea Cudjoe OFR (born 6 October 1948) is a retired Nigerians, Nigerian jurist and former Chief Judge of Kaduna State. She is the first female Chief judge in Kaduna State and served from 1996 to 2014. She is also first female Lawyer in North Western State as well as the first female Legal Draftsman in Kaduna State. Early life and education Justice Rahila was born in Zaria, Kaduna State, in 1948. She attended Our Ladies High School, Kaduna and Government Girls College, Dala, Kano (city), Kano before gaining admission to study law at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Rahila was then called to the Nigerian Bar Association, Nigerian Bar in 1973. Career Rahila began her legal career as a State Counsel in the Kaduna State's Ministry of Justice. In 1979, she was appointed a Legal Draftsman of the Ministry of Justice, Kaduna and a Legislative Counsel to the Kaduna State House of Assembly. In 1983, she was appointed a Judge of the Kaduna State High Court. Under the administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmadu Bello University
The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a public research university located in Zaria, Nigeria, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It was opened in 1962 as the University of Northern Nigeria. The university has four colleges, three schools, 18 faculties, 110 academic departments, 17 centres, and seven institutes with over 600 professors, about 3000 academic staff and over 7000 non-teaching staff. The university has over 400 postgraduate programmes reflecting its strife to become a postgraduate studies-centred university. The university operates from two campuses in the ancient Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan city of Zaria, the Samaru Campus where the Senate Building and most of the faculties are located and the Kongo Campus, hosting the faculties of Law and Administration. It has been adjudged to be the largest university in Sub-Saharan Africa, (next to Cairo University) in terms of land occupied, owing to the numerous buildings it has. On 5 February 2025 the Governing Council of Ahmadu Bell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Judicial Council (Nigeria)
The National Judicial Council (NJC), is an executive body established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in accordance with the provisions of Section 153 of the 1999 Constitution as amended to protect the Judiciary of Nigeria from the whims and caprices of the Executive. The chairman of the council is the chief justice of Nigeria, Hon. Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, while the deputy chairman is Hon. Justice John Inyang Okoro, justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Other members are: the president of the Court of Appeal, four retired justices of the Supreme Court, a retired president of the Court of Appeal, president of National Industrial Court, chief judge of the Federal High Court, chief judge of the High Court FCT, chief judges of High Court of four states, president of Customary Court of Appeal, Grand Khadi of Sharia Court of Appeal, president of the Nigerian Bar Association, a former president of the Nigeria Bar Association, three members of the Nigeria Bar Association, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Kaduna State
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmadu Bello University Alumni
Ahmadu Bello University is a public university located in the city of Zaria, Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. , it has graduated over 800,000 students. This is the alphabetical list of some notable alumni. A * Adamu Adamu, former Minister of Education * Ahmed Tijani Mora, Pharmacist, Chairman, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. * Azubuike Ihejirika, former Chief of Army Staff * Atiku Abubakar GCON, former vice president, Federal Republic of Nigeria * Ayodele Awojobi, scientist and professor at University of Lagos * Attahiru Jega, professor, former chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission * Abubakar El-Kanemi, ''Shehu of Borno'' * Afakriya Gadzama, former director general, Nigerian State Security Service * Andrew Yakubu, former group managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. * Ahmed Makarfi, former Kaduna State governor * Aminu Safana, medical doctor, politician * Abdullahi Mustapha, former vice chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University * Adamu Sidi Ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Nigerian Judges
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Nigerian Women Judges
Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was derived from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Baron Frederick Lugard, a British colonial administrator. Nigeria is composed of various ethnic groups and cultures and the term Nigerian refers to a citizenship-based civic nationality. Nigerians are derived from over 250 ethno-linguistic groups.Toyin Falola. ''Culture and Customs of Nigeria''. Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 4. Though there are multiple ethnic groups in Nigeria, economic factors result in significant mobility of Nigerians of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds to reside in territories in Nigeria that are outside their ethnic or religious background, resulting in the mixing of the various ethnic and religious groups, especially in Nigeria's cities.Toyin F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Judge Of Kaduna State
The Chief Judge of Kaduna State is the head of the Kaduna State Judiciary, the judicial branch of the Kaduna State Government and the chief judge of the High Court of Kaduna State. From 1967 to 1973, the title was called Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The appointment is often made by the Governor. List of Chief Judges 1960 to date *The Hon. Sir Hugh Hurley KT (1960–1968) *Sir Nigel V Reed (1969–1975) *Hon. Justice Arthur WA Wheeler (1975–1979) *Justice Shehu Usman Muhammad (1979–1992) *Justice Saka Adeyemi Ibiyeye (1992–1996) *Justice Rahila Hadea Cudjoe Justice Rahila Hadea Cudjoe OFR (born 6 October 1948) is a retired Nigerians, Nigerian jurist and former Chief Judge of Kaduna State. She is the first female Chief judge in Kaduna State and served from 1996 to 2014. She is also first female Lawye ... (1996–2014) *Justice Tanimu Zailani (2013–2018) *Justice Muhammadu Lawal Bello (2018 to date) References {{reflist Judiciary of Kaduna State Kaduna State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of First Women Lawyers And Judges In Africa
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Africa#Territories and regions, Africa. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree. KEY * FRA = Overseas region of France * GBR = British Overseas Territories, British overseas territory of the United Kingdom Algeria * Blanche Azoulay (1908): First female lawyer in Algeria (upon being called to the Bar of Algiers) * Belmihoub Aziz: First female judge in Algeria (c. 1962) *Nadia Hammadi: First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Algeria (c. 1963–1964) *Fatiha Sahraoui and Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani (1964): First indigenous female lawyers in Algeria (upon being called to the Bar of Algiers) *Fafa Sid Lakhdar-Benzerrouki: First female to serve as the President of an Algerian Court (1975). In 2010, she became the first (female) President of the Adminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigerian Body Of Benchers
The Nigerian Body of Benchers is a professional body concerned with the admission of successful candidates into the Legal Profession at the Nigerian Law School Bar Final Examination. Members of the body are called '' Benchers''. The body also regulate the call of graduate of law school to the Nigerian Bar as well as the regulation of the legal profession in Nigeria. Principal officers The current Chairman of the body is Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN who succeeded Hon. Justice Mary Peter Odili in March 2024. Hon Justice Mary Peter Odili CFR, JSC (Rtd) who succeeded Chief Wole Olanipekun, OFR, SAN in April 2023. Olanipekun succeeded Hon. Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour in March 2022 after a long list of successions, including the past Chairmen such as Hon. Justice Dr. I. T. Muhammad, CFR, 2019, ALH. Bashir M. Dalhatu, 2018, Hon. Justice W.S.N Onnoghen, GCON, 2017, Chief Bandele A. Aiku, SAN, 2016 (deceased), Hon. Justice, Mahmud Mohammed, GCON, 2015, Chief T.J.O Okpoko who was elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
