The Solicitor General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of justice, Adedayo Apata, and 37 others have been elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Chief Registrar of Supreme Court and Legal Practitioners’ Committee, Hadizatu Mustapha, announced the list at a press conference in Abuja on Friday.
The 38 lawyers were elevated by the LPPC at the committee’s 138th plenary session held on Thursday.
The successful candidates who were selected from 117 applicants for the rank, will be sworn in at the ceremony marking the upcoming new 2019/2020 legal year of the apex court which will hold in September.
According to the Supreme Court’s Chief Registrar four of the 117 applicants were female, among whom two were successful.
Of the 38 successful candidates, three of them are of the academics category while the rest of them are of advocacy.
