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Supplement to Official Gazette

CERTAIN JUDICIAL OFFICE (EXTENSION OF PERIOD OF OFFICE) DECREE 1979 Decree No. 36 [3rd October 1978] THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1. Notwithstanding section 124 of the Constitution of the Federation (as modified by the Constitution (Basic Provisions) Decree 1975) and of section 5 of the High Court Law of Lagos (which provides that any person holding the office of a Judge of the High Court of Lagos State shall vacate that office when he attains the age of 62 years), Mr Justice Thomas Sheteolu Gomes holding the office of a Judge of the Lagos State High Court on 2nd …