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Mahmud Mohammed | |
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| Chief Justice of Nigeria | |
| In office November 2014 –10 November 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Aloma Mariam Mukhtar |
| Succeeded by | Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 November 1946 Jalingo,Northern Region,British Nigeria (now Jalingo,Taraba State,Nigeria) |
| Political party | Non-partisian |
Mahmud Mohammed GCON (born 10 November 1946) is a Nigerian jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria from 2014 to 2016. [1] [2] [3]
Justice Mohammed was born on November 10,1946 in Jalingo,the capital of Taraba State,northeastern Nigeria. [4] He obtained a Bachelor of Law degree at Ahmadu Bello University in 1970 and was called to the Nigerian bar,the same year he graduated from the Nigerian Law School. [5]
He joined the services of the Ministries of Justice of the defunct North-eastern state as a barrister and in 1991,he became the acting Chief judge of Taraba State,the same year his appointment was confirmed as the Chief Judge of the state. [6] In 2005,he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria as Justice. [7] In November 2014,he was appointed as the Chief Justice of Nigeria to succeed Aloma Mariam Mukhtar,the first female Justice of Nigeria. [8] Justice Mahmud Mohammed is currently the Chairman of the National Judicial Council. [4]
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