{"id":67468,"date":"2025-06-06T14:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67468"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:06:53","slug":"nigeria-mourns-former-cjn-uwais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/06\/nigeria-mourns-former-cjn-uwais\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Mourns Former CJN Uwais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Chief Justice of Nigeria Mohammed Lawal Uwais has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away on Friday in Abuja, according to a family source.<\/p>\n<p>Uwais served as the head of Nigeria\u2019s judiciary from 1995 to 2006, making him one of the longest serving Chief Justices in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>His 11 year tenure is remembered for significant contributions to legal reform and judicial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>After his retirement, he continued to play a role in national affairs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he was appointed by then President Umar Musa Yar\u2019Adua to chair the Electoral Reform Committee, which submitted its report in 2008 with key recommendations to improve Nigeria\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>Born on June 12, 1936, Uwais had a long and distinguished legal career marked by professionalism and national service.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are underway as tributes continue to pour in from across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone Former Chief Justice of Nigeria Mohammed Lawal Uwais has died at the age of 89. He passed away on Friday in Abuja, according to a family source. Uwais served as the head of Nigeria\u2019s judiciary from 1995 to 2006, making him one of the longest serving Chief Justices in the nation\u2019s history. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67470,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67468\/revisions\/67470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}