President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday signed a bill that establishes a uniform retirement age for judicial officers into law.
The Bill seeks to extend the retirement age of High Court Judges from 65 to 70 years.
Currently, the mandatory retirement age of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court Justices as provided for under Section 291 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is 70 years.
The Uniform Retirement Age Bill only seeks to bring the retirement age of High Court Judges to be at par with that of the Justices of the two appellate courts.
The bill had been passed by the Ninth National Assembly.
