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Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar is poised to become the deputy chairman of the National Judicial Council, NJC, and chief justice of Nigeria.
Justice Mukhtar was born on November 20, 1944. She attended Gibson and Weldon College of Law, London, and was called to the English Bar in November 1966. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in July 1967.
Regarded as an independent-minded jurist, Mukhtar was one of the justices who gave a dissenting judgement that is widely acclaimed in legal circles and the academia in the Yar'Adua/Buhari election result dispute in 2007. While other justices dismissed the Buhari appeal and upheld the election of Yar'Adua and Jonathan in 2007, the trio of justices George Oguntade, Walter Onnoghen and Mukhtar delivered dissenting judgments, insisting that there was substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2006 which vitiated the election.
Justice Mukhtar is a woman of many firsts: first female lawyer from the north, first female to be elevated to the Court of Appeal where she was a presiding justice between 1993 and 2005; and, from May 10, 2005, when the Senate confirmed her appointment to the apex court, she became the first woman to sit as a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
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First female Chief Justice of Nigeria
Congratulations Ma'am!. Looking at your profile, there is no question this appointment is based on merit, the ONLY one I have seen from an area where appointments are based on Federal Character.
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Dont't mean to offend you but one wonders whether, being from an area where women are oppressed, you ever feel, like I do, that you were born in the wrong place. Don't forget these oppresed women in your new position both in Nigeria and in the Islamic world.
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Everything treasured is guarded and kept beyond the reach of unauthorized persons. Women are well taken care of in Islam; they are to be fed, clothed, sheltered, educated, protected and allowed to take works that suit them. Islamically speaking one will not find a Muslim lady prostituting herself to pay her school fees and room rent as you Paul Worshipers send Ngozis up North to do!
Women in Islam are much more than objects for adverts as you Paulistians take them for. Your women are public convenience for anyone who cares. You people keep your money, jewelry and… [Read Full Text]
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Nigeria's Jonathan Swears-In Chief Justice
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan swore-in the new Chief Justice, Mariam Aloma Mukhtar.
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