Section

SECTION 3: Number of Justices and tenure of office of Justices

Part of
Supreme Court Act 1960

(1) The number of Justices of the Supreme Court shall not exceed 21. (2) Any person holding the office of Chief Justice of Nigeria or a Justice shall vacate that office when he attains the age of seventy years.

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