 No fewer than 164 liars have been shortlisted for appointments as judges to fill the available 15 slots in the Federal High Court bench. The chief judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Soho, in late December 2020, wrote to relevant agencies including the Nigerian Bar Association about the court's desire to hire 15 judges. The planned appointments, Justice Soho noted, were in respect of 13 states on the FCT. The states are Aqa'ibun, Belchey, Benwe, Ekiti, Elnogun, Kajuna, Katina, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, River, Sakuto, and Zamfara.