Tenure of office and pension rights of judicial officers

Section 291(3)(a) · 1999 Constitution (2004 edition)

What Constitution says

(a) for a period of not less than fifteen years shall, if he retires at or after the age of sixty- five years in the case of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, a Justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the court of Appeal or a Justice of the Court of Appeal or at or after the age of sixty years in any other case, be entitled to pension for life at a rate equivalent to his last annual salary and all his allowances in addition to any other retirement benefits to which he may be entitled;

This is the 1999 Constitution as published in 2004. Later amendments aren't included yet, so a section may have changed since.

Original source

Official Gazette · CFRN 1999 official PDF · printed page 120. Original document

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