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Judiciary as a whole not corrupt, says senior lawyers

Some senior lawyers have expressed dismay over the allegations of corruption against the Nigerian judiciary due to recent controversial court verdicts

Election petitions, Emefiele’s trial, other events that shaped Nigerian judiciary in 2023

The 2023 legal year was filled with various controversies mainly out of the general elections, even as cases involving the former Governor of the Cent

Why Nigeria’s penal code remains unreformed 65 years after

Despite the reforms in Nigerian laws, the penal code law, especially in the northern states have remained largely the same after over 65 years. Nigeri

Executive has captured heads of courts — Ex-S/Court justice

A former justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ejembi Eko has said the most heads of courts have been “captured” by the executive to do their bidding

Dattijo: How retiring jurist’s bombshell could change S/Court

The speech by former justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad, which rumbled the judiciary over the weekend, may prove to be the tu