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The list of members of the panel was earlier released on Friday.

The chief judge was mandated by the Edo House of Assembly to set up the panel after Philip Shaibu allegedly failed to respond to the notice of impeachment served on him.

He noted that setting up a three-man tribunal contravened the electoral act, noting that the tribunal should have a chairman and four other members as stipulated by law.

By Adibe Emenyonu Citing alleged high-handedness on the part of Justice Courage Ogbebor, lawyers in the Benin-city, Edo State, branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday began a boycott of High Court 6 presided over by the Justice. It was alleged that there have been complaints from both senior and junior lawyers over activities of the Justice, including a situation where she was said to have delayed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and instructed him to wait till the end of the s...

Justice Esther Edigin, the seventh substantive Chief Judge of the state, will be bowing out of office on Monday.

Gov Obaseki to swear-in Justice Acha, as Edo Chief Judge, Edigin retires Published Justice Esther Edigin, the seventh substantive Chief Judge of Edo State, will be bowing out of office on Monday. A statement signed by the Chief Registrar of the High Court, Mr Benson Osawaru, on Friday in Benin stated that Edigin would clock 65 years on May 17 which is also the constitutionally prescribed age for retirement in the bench. Following the development, Governor Godwin Obaseki would swear in the next ...