Hon. Justice Aloma M. Mukhtar, GCON Chief Justice of Nigeria

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 The Supreme Court of Nigeria consist of the Chief Justice of Nigeria and such number of Justices of the Supreme Court, not exceeding twenty-one, as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly. Presently the Supreme Court is made up of the Chief Justice and fourteen (14) other Justices.