The judiciary, marked by a history of familial ties among judges, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has raised serious concerns about impartiality....
In 2004, Professor Bingu wa Mutharika succeeded Muluzi. When Bingu died suddenly of a suspected infarction in April 2012, his younger brother, Peter, an American law...
Please read this petition and you’d see how the Nigerian judicial system is messed up by judges who are supposed to uphold the law and give...
While the conduct and verbiage of the current Chief Judge were even more egregious than those of his durable predecessor from one decade ago, few expect...
List of 22 Justices nominated for appointment at Supreme Court The names of the nominees for appointment as Supreme Court Justices unveiled last Thursday showed that...
There is a need to apply the law as appropriately as possible because whatever a superior court decides in law is binding on a lower court....
Since the nullification of Plateau State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Assembly elections by the Appellate Court, which sacked all its members, the...
A couple of weeks ago retiring Justice Dattijo Muhammad described the Supreme Court he was leaving in his valedictory speech. The Chief Justice and other Supreme...
This double standard being used to subvert the people’s will is not acceptable. It is an invitation to anarchy and will kill our democracy. The National...
The point to be made is that the Nigerian judiciary appears to work for only litigants, while abandoning its responsibility to the society at large. Again,...