{"id":81070,"date":"2026-01-01T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81070"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:37:49","slug":"njc-denies-report-on-integrity-test-of-34-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/01\/njc-denies-report-on-integrity-test-of-34-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"NJC Denies Report on Integrity Test of 34 Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Judicial Council (NJC) has dismissed as false a viral report claiming that 34 lawyers failed an \u201cintegrity test\u201d and were dropped from consideration for appointment as Federal High Court judges.<br \/>\nIn a statement dated December 31, 2025, signed by its Secretary, Ahmed Gambo Saleh, Esq., the Council said the report was inaccurate, unauthorised and misleading.<br \/>\nThe NJC clarified that the processes referenced in the publication were conducted solely by the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC), noting that it had not taken any decision on the candidates.<br \/>\nAccording to the Council, some applicants were dropped at the FJSC stage due to adverse findings from petitions, while others failed to meet the qualifying scores required to advance to the interview stage before the NJC.<br \/>\nThe Council stressed that it did not conduct any integrity screening on the candidates and warned that such reports could damage the reputation of those involved.<br \/>\nThe NJC also disclosed that it had begun internal investigations to identify the source of the unauthorised report and reaffirmed its commitment to transparency, due process and judicial integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The National Judicial Council (NJC) has dismissed as false a viral report claiming that 34 lawyers failed an \u201cintegrity test\u201d and were dropped from consideration for appointment as Federal High Court judges. In a statement dated December 31, 2025, signed by its Secretary, Ahmed Gambo Saleh, Esq., the Council said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81070","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\/81070","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=81070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81072,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81070\/revisions\/81072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}