{"id":69625,"date":"2025-07-03T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69625"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:19:55","slug":"kekere-ekun-appoints-justice-babatunde-adejumo-as-new-nji-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/kekere-ekun-appoints-justice-babatunde-adejumo-as-new-nji-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Kekere-Ekun Appoints Justice Babatunde Adejumo as New NJI Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has approved the appointment of Justice Babatunde Adeniran Adejumo as the new Administrator of the National Judicial Institute (NJI).<\/p>\n<p>Justice Adejumo, a former President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, will officially assume office on August 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment follows a recommendation by the NJI Board of Governors, chaired by the CJN, and reflects the Board\u2019s confidence in Justice Adejumo\u2019s extensive judicial experience and leadership qualities.<\/p>\n<p>He succeeds Justice Salisu Garba Abdullahi, whose four-year tenure as NJI Administrator concludes on July 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Kekere-Ekun commended the outgoing Administrator for his dedicated service and significant contributions to judicial education and institutional reforms within the Nigerian judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has approved the appointment of Justice Babatunde Adeniran Adejumo as the new Administrator of the National Judicial Institute (NJI). Justice Adejumo, a former President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, will officially assume office on August 1, 2025. His appointment follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69625","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69627,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69625\/revisions\/69627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}