BREAKING NEWS: FG Slams Corruption Charges Against Chief Justice Of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Walter Onnoghen The Code of Conduct Bureau has slammed corruption charges against the Chief Justice of Nigeria at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, court documents showed. Walter Onnoghen became the Chief Justice in March 2017, less than six months after the homes of several federal judges, including those of the Supreme Court, were searched in an anti-corruption raid. On January 10, the Nigerian government filed charges against the head of the country’s judicial arm, accusing him of asset declaration offences. The government said it was only in 2016 after the controversial crackdown on judges that Mr Onnoghen partially declared his asset, but still failed to declare a series of bank accounts, denominated in local and foreign currencies, linked to him at a Standard Chartered Bank branch in Abuja. The government consequently filed six charges of non and fraudulent decl...