Human rights activists have lambasted the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Yakubu Maikyau SAN, and the National Executive Council (NBA-NEC) for dissolving John Aikpokpo-Martins-led Executive Committee of the Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL).
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Nigeria’s Supreme Court held a special session on November 27, 2023 to formally usher in a new legal year. It provided an occasion for a retrospective on the performance of Nigeria’s judiciary by its leaders in a season of unprecedented levels of public angst over the political weaponisation of judges and a set piece moment to compare notes on the dysfunctions that afflict the judicial system. The outcome was interesting to the point of anti-climactic.