Onnoghen Removed From NJC Membership List Justice Walter Onnoghen's name has been removed from the National Judicial Council's members' list, preparing the ground for a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, to emerge as the council's deputy chairman, The PUNCH reports. "The date of the next meeting of the NJC is not known yet; but because the acting CJN has just taken over as the acting chairman of the council, it is expected that the deputy chairman will be announced at the next meeting," a top judiciary source told our correspondent on Sunday. Paragraph 20 (a) of Part I of the Third Schedule to the Constitution makes "the next most senior Justice of the Supreme Court" a member of the council and provides that the person "shall be the Deputy Chairman." Constitutionally, the CJN is automatically the chairman of both the NJC and the Federal Judicial Service Commission, but Muhammad only took over the headship...