I bring you all warm greetings and best wishes for the New Year on behalf of our dear President, His Excellency, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Although Mr. President has been away from us for sometime on account of a medical condition, he has maintained sustained interest and optimism regarding the various challenges, as well as the possibilities available to us as a nation.

More than ten years before Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua assumed office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , the Nigerian judiciary was sick. The malady in the justice system was so pronounced at the time that it gave not only the right thinking Nigerians the reason to worry but also the successive military governments which largely contributed to the woes of the third arm of government.

Often, more damage is done to the victims through improvised rescue. The question then is whether the rescue scenario painted above has any implications under the law. It has to be stated quickly that the law is happy with the rescuer (call him the Good Samaritan) and though this subject is intricate, it ought to be noted rather quickly too, that the law also offers protection to the rescuer.

The National Judicial Council, the apex body for the nation’s Judiciary, is one of the Federal Executive Bodies created under Section 153 of the 1999 constitution.

By Laja Thomas The rationale for the  delisting of INEC as a Federal Executive body removes the requirement that the Chair must be a member of a political party. The participants therefore made the following recommendations. The appointment of the Chair of INEC shall be by the Council of State which is headed by the […]