President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Justice Sidi Dauda Bage and Justice Paul Adamu to the Supreme Court.
Buhari has forwarded their names to the Nigerian Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation as Justices of the Supreme Court.
The president sent these names via a letter sent to Bukola Saraki, Senate president.
The letter was read on the floor of the senate today.
This came as the State Security Service has released the seven judges, comprising two justices of the Supreme Court, who were arrested on suspicion of bribery and corruption last week.
On October 7, gun-wielding DSS operatives raided the residences of senior judges. At the end of the operations, which lasted at least 12 hours, the security operatives arrested Justices Sylvester Ngwuta and John Okoro, both of the Supreme Court, as well as Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The DSS operatives who broke into the houses of the justice in the wee hours claimed to have acted on the basis of petitions alleging corruption by the given judges. According to a statement issued by the agency monies running into hundreds of millions of naira in various currencies were recovered from the residences of the judges.
