Nigeria's Chief Justice Onnoghen Gets the Boot

Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen who was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to declare all his assets, has been found guilty by the Code of Conduct Tribunal in a two-hour judgement, declaring that Onnoghen violated the Code of Conduct Bureau rules for public officers of his status and has among others, barred him from public office for ten years.

Former chief justice of Nigeria, Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen

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