Justice mahmud mohammed biography of barack

Justice Mahmud Mohammed was the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) November 2014 to November 10, 2016 when he finally bowed out after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 70.

He left the Supreme Court Bench during one of the apex court’s most turbulent periods in history.
 It is, however, certain that history will be kind to him because he led the nation’s judiciary through major reforms and great innovations, for which the legal profession and indeed the country must be grateful.

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Justice Mahmud Mohammed will be remembered not just for his judicial pronouncements, but as a CJN who spearheaded some of the most innovative reforms in judiciary.

He championed the reform of the process of the award of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) leading to the enactment of the Guidelines for the Conferment of the Award of the Rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, 2016.

The exercises for the award of the rank which he led in both 2015 and 2016 have been