Nigeria, June 9 -- About two months after the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, wrote a letter of voluntary retirement to President Muhammadu Buhari, the president has finally accepted his retirement.

Mr Onnoghen wrote a retirement letter in April after he was asked to do so by the National Judicial Council which probed a complaint that he abused his office by not properly declaring his assets.

Before then, he had been controversially suspended from office by President Muhammadu Buhari on the order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) where Mr Onnoghen was being tried.

The CCT gave the order 'exparte' meaning without Mr Onnoghen's lawyers' presence. Majority of Nigerians were not aware of the order until the presidency...