No fewer than 6800 cases at the Supreme Court of Nigeria are suffering neglect with some appeals dating back to 2006 and being heard for the first time in 2022. The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, recently bemoaned how the Supreme Court was grappling with the delayed cases. There is a shortfall of justices in the Supreme Court, with only 13 left on the bench despite that the constitution provided 21, which has widened the gap in the ratio of judges to litigants in Nigeria.