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The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LPPC, has elevated 72 legal practitioners to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigerian, SAN.
The committee, in a statement by the Acting Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Bello, said it took the decision at its 149th plenary session that held, yesterday.
It disclosed that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, would wear-in the new SANs on December 8, 2021, at a ceremony scheduled to hold at the Supreme Court premises.
The LPPC also notified prospective applicants that application for the 2022 exercise would not commence until a date to be announced in January.
Meanwhile, among those conferred with the SAN rank include the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Mr. Anthony Ojukwu, former Secretary General of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Emeka Obegolu, as well as seven professors, who are among 10 appointees that were drawn from the academic.