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How Nigeria's Courts Became 'The Lost Hope Of The Common Man' -By Chidi Odinkalu – Opinion Nigeria

When he inaugurated a cohort of 72 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, on December 8, 2021, then Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Tanko Muhammad, reported that 33 or nearly five per cent of the 681 cases considered by the Nigerian Supreme Court during the year were “political cases”. This was rather a curious category to maintain or report on. Judicial doctrine ordinarily views political cases with reluctance. Nigerian law knows nothing of the sort.

How Nigeria's courts became 'the lost hope of the common man'

How Nigeria's courts became "The lost hope of the common man", By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

When courts become captured for the purpose, exclusively, of enabling the whims of big men, they lose the authority of judicial office.

FCT judges accuse chief justice of stealing multibillion-naira allowances

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory finds itself entangled in a crisis marked by allegations of corruption and personnel grievances, with profound implications for the administration of justice in the nation’s capital. In an unusual move, several judges have revealed to People’s Gazette the distressing experiences they endured under the leadership of Chief |

ANALYSIS: Broken justice sector, failing anti-corruption war, other things new AGF Fagbemi must fix

As the AGF, Mr Fagbemi faces the challenges of a broken judiciary and justice administration, a befuddled anti-corruption war, a lack of political will to enforce the law in the public interest, human rights abuses and rule of law somersaults.