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The idea that the “judiciary is the last hope of the common man” is a banal, flyblown cliché that is habitually huckstered in Nigerian judicial circles and uncritically repeated in the Nigerian commentariat. But that’s mere hype. There has never been any moment, at least in my lifetime, when the judiciary was the unalterable guardian […]
Continue ReadingOne of the Justices at the Nigerian Supreme Court, Justice Muhammad Dattijo, retired from active service on Friday October 27, having attained the statutory retirement age of 70 years. At his valedictory speech, the Niger State-born jurist, who said he spent 43 years in the judiciary, spoke on arrays of issues including the power of […]
Continue ReadingLike a malignant genie, corruption allegations are sticking stubbornly to the judiciary. In the latest assault on the citadel of justice, the Chairman, State and House of Representatives Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano, Flora Azinge, raised the alarm that a senior lawyer was attempting to bribe her to influence the court. This has again […]
Continue ReadingBefore grappling with the subject matter of this column today, I feel encouraged to get readers acquainted, if they are not already, with certain universally applicable concepts and perspectives of law. They are Natural law, Positive law, Judicial activism and the Separation of powers. They provide a meaningful backdrop to the surveillance of the rule […]
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