The Nigerian Judiciary The Judiciary is an important part of the Government as it is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that the laws of the land are adhered to. It is sometimes referred to as the ‘last hope of the common man’. For a judiciary to be...
First things first, in Nigeria there are no juries in Nigerian courts. Nigeria uses a bench trial system instead, and this is where one person (or in the case of an appeal court, more than one person) sits to hear a case and listens to arguments from both sides and...