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FILE: Gov Godwin Obaseki during the Testimony Session at the RCCG Holy Ghost Congress held at the Church s International Headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday. Photo:@hgcongress
Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin
Eight High Court judges were sworn-in on Monday in Edo State by Governor Godwin Obaseki who urged them to be impartial in their dispensation of justice and promised the judiciary necessary support to adopt new technology in the dispensation of justice.
Obaseki said his administration would this year focus on rebuilding courts and judges’ quarters outside the state capital as he promised to hand over the newly built Judges Quarters to the Chief Judge later this week.
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Monday boosted the state’s judiciary by swearing-in, eight new judges, into the state high court with a charge on them to dispense justice with impartiality and fairness.
Obaseki who promised his administration’s support for the judiciary assured that in the new fiscal year 2021, he would focus on rebuilding courts and judges quarters outside the state capital, just as he promised to hand over the newly built Judges Quarters to the Chief Judge later in the week.
The governor also assured judges in the state that he would provide the necessary support for them to adopt new technology in the dispensation of justice. The gesture of support, he added, would be extended to the federal judicial institutions in the state, beginning with the planned relocation of the Court of Appeal from its present location.
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Timely delivery of justice vital to health of Judiciary Okowa
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By Festus Ahon
GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said timely delivery of justice was vital to the health of the justice system and how it was perceived by the public from which it derives its ultimate authority.
Okowa who stated this at a Special Thanksgiving Mass to mark the beginning of the new legal year held at the Emmanuel the Saviour Catholic Church, Asaba, said the Judiciary has to continue to find ways to deliver justice in a timely, transparent and equitable manner.
The Governor who was represented by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori, said: “As you prepare to enter the new year, what is clear is that the judiciary has to continue to find ways to deliver justice in a timely, transparent, and equitable manner. Hence, as I said three years ago, it behoves on you men of the bench, wig and silk to, as a matter of exigency, interrogate the use of