The News Agency of Nigeria reported on Wednesday that the directive was contained in a circular issued by the Chief Judge of FHC, Justice John Tsoho, on December 5 notifying judges of the court about the development.
NAN reports that the NJC took the decision during its December 1 meeting.
The circular read, “Your Lordships are, by this circular letter, notified that at the meeting of the National Judicial Council held on December 1, 2022, the council reinstated Hon. Justice R. N. Ofili-Ajumogobia as a judicial officer.
“The reinstatement takes instant effect and there shall be consequential posting.”
NAN reports that Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a 15-count charge bordering on money laundering and breach of public trust.
In a ruling in November 2021, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of the Lagos Division of FHC upheld Ofili-Ajumogobia’s application to quash the charge and dismissed the allegations against her.
Justice Lewis-Allagoa relied on an earlier order by Justice Binta Nyako of an FHC, Abuja, which quashed all the recommendations of the NJC.
Justice Nyako, in a judgment delivered on November 28, 2019, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/638/2018 filed by Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia against the NJC, quashed the council’s report and recommendations, including for the judge’s sack.
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