Nigeria: CJN Tests Positive for Covid-19
Abuja The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, has tested positive for COVID-19.
His colleague at the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, said yesterday in Abuja at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers Association that the CJN is receiving treatment in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
But the Director of Information, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Dr. Festus Akande, disputed Justice Saulawa s claim, saying there is no medical report to show that the CJN is positive for COVID-19.
Justice Muhammad was absent from Monday s new legal year ceremony of the Supreme Court where he was scheduled to preside over the inauguration of 72 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs).
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MAN, the LCCI, and others, in separate interviews with
The PUNCH, called on Nigerians to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures to prevent another lockdown.
The groups gave the warning just as a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, on Tuesday disclosed that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, had tested positive for COVID-19.
Recall that following increase in COVID-19 cases in April, the Federal Government imposed lockdown in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, has tested positive for COVID-19.
His colleague at the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, said yesterday in Abuja at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’ Association that the CJN is receiving treatment in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
But the Director of Information, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Dr. Festus Akande, disputed Justice Saulawa’s claim, saying there is no medical report to show that the CJN is positive for COVID-19.
Justice Muhammad was absent from Monday’s new legal year ceremony of the Supreme Court where he was scheduled to preside over the inauguration of 72 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs).
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The Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Dr Festus Akande, has described as a rumour the claim that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN Tanko Muhammad, had tested positive for COVID-19.
Akande stated this in a statement which he issued after a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, disclosed at an event in Abuja on Tuesday that the CJN had tested positive for the dreaded disease.
The apex court’s spokesperson had earlier in his first statement on the state of health of the CJN, on Tuesday, denied reports that the head of the Nigerian judiciary was critically sick.
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja
The Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Dr Festus Akande, has described as a rumour the claim that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad, had tested positive for COVID-19.
Akande stated this in a statement which he issued after a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, disclosed at an event in Abuja on Tuesday that the CJN had tested positive for the dreaded disease.
The apex court’s spokesperson had earlier in his first statement on the state of health of the CJN, on Tuesday, denied reports that the head of the Nigerian judiciary was critically sick.