 The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Mohammed, has advocated alteration of the constitution to reduce the maximum number of justices of the Supreme Court from the current 21 to 16. Justice Mohammed called for an increase in the number of justices of the Court of Appeal, which is currently pegged at 49 in section 237 of the constitution, to not less than 100. He requested the age of anyone to be appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court should not be less than 25 years of post call to bar. The CGN also suggested that all the appeals from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court should be by leave of the apex court with an additional requirement that the application for leave could be determined by three justices of the Supreme Court sitting in the chambers. Find out about fresh news updates.