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The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko has been reminded that judges are decisionally independent of one another and therefore not accountable to their Chief Justices for decisions they make and therefore no need for the CJN to summon Chief Justices of states for decisions rendered by individual judges.

Abdullah Khurram has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal by the Senior President of Tribunals, the Right Honourable Sir Keith Lindblom

Rachel Josephine Galloway has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal by the Senior President of Tribunals, the Right Honourable Sir Keith Lindblom.

Mr. Karim Asad Ahmad Khan QC gave his solemn undertaking and formally took office as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during a ceremony held at the Seat of the Court in The Hague, The Netherlands

Plateau State Governor, Mr. Simon Bako Lalong has sworn in Hon. Justice Blessing Lyop Dalyop as President of the Plateau State Customary Court of Appeal, charging her to uphold the tenets of justice, good conscience and fairness

It is now obvious that governors in Nigeria are not interested in judicial and parliamentary autonomy enshrined in the 1999 constitution. They are interested in ruling autocratically without any recourse to the Nigerian constitution

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has noted that the new leadership of its Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) was carefully chosen to ensure that the section does not become comatose again.

Governors  and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have finally entered into agreement on the modalities and timelines for the commencement of full financial autonomy for various arms of government at the state level

The Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Kazeem Alogba today said that the state judiciary has been enjoying the total Financial Autonomy on recurrent expenditures 100 per cent from the state and on Capital Expenditure

Human Rights Lawyer, Monday Ubani on Tuesday asked the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, to immediately comply with a Federal High Court judgment extending the time for National Identify Number, NIN, by two months