Galadima Replaces Salami as Head of Corruption Trial Committee

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The National Judicial Council (NJC) has appointed retired Hon. Justice Suleiman Galadima, CFR, as the new Chairman of the Corruption and Financial Crimes Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO).
Galadima is a retired Justice of the Supreme Court
He is to replace Hon. Justice Ayo Salami (retired) who excused himself from the committee as the Chairman, after initially accepting to serve.
The committee will be inaugurated on Wednesday by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Hon. Mr. Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen GCON at the Council’s Conference Hall by 2pm.
Justice Galadima was born October 1946 in Nasarawa State. He attended Government College Keffi where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1965 before he proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law in 1977 and was called to the Bar after he graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 1978.
He later received a master’s degree in Law from the University of Jos in 1985.
He joined the Anambra State Judiciary as Magistrate on July 1988 and in 1990 he was appointed Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Plateau State.
On May 1991 he became a High Court Judge in Plateau State. After the creation of Nasarawa State in 1996 he was appointed its pioneer Chief Judge.
On December 9, 1998 he was appointed to the Court of Appeal and on August 2010 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
He retired on October 10, 2016 at the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
Justice Galadima is famous for his leading judgement in Shina Oketaolegun Vs. State, SC. 334A/2012 wherein he held that the Court of Appeal correctly reviewed the evidence led by both the prosecution and the defence in which he agreed that the evidence of one credible witness can justify conviction.