Nigeria: Tasks Before the Courts

4 October 2016

The courts across the country are due to resume for the 2016/2017 legal year after about eight weeks of annual vacation. Davidson Iriekpen, in this report, highlights areas, where the ministers in the temple of justice are expected to focus their attention.

After about eight weeks of vacation, courts all over the country, both at the federal and state levels have started to resume for the 2016/2017 legal year, beginning from last week. Like every other resumption, the judges who used the opportunity offered them by the vacation to cool off, are coming back to face daunting challenges. Apart from the numerous applications and motions awaiting their attention, the judges are also retuning to work at a time the image of the entire judiciary is abysmally low.

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