A Valedictory Court Session for the retiring Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola (GCON), will be held on August 22, 2024, a spokesman for the apex court, Festus Akande has said.

Akande also said the Supreme Court’s 2023/2024 legal year ended on July 19. He said the court proceeded on vacation on July 22 and will resume for the first term 2024/2025 legal year on September 23.

Akande added that the ceremony to usher in the 2024/2025 new legal year has been scheduled to be held on September 30.

Then President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ariwoola as acting CJN in June 2022 following the resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad on health grounds.

Ariwoola was subsequently sworn in October of the same year following his confirmation by the Senate. Ariwoola was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2011.

He was a Justice of the Court of Appeal between 2005 and 2011 after having been elevated from the State High Court of Oyo State.

He studied law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile Ife and bagged his bachelor of laws degree with honours in July 1980.

In July 1981, he was called to the Bar and enrolled at the Supreme Court of Nigeria as a Solicitor. Ariwoola will turn 70 by August 22, 2024.