Sustaining a fight to hold the Judiciary accountable and ensuring that Judges deliver their services uprightly is no walk in the park.
It often requires gust, hard determination, courage and a bit of flintiness, particularly with respect to a Judiciary steeped in a long-ingrained sense of invincibility and impunity. Unfortunately, but without meaning to tar everyone with the same brush, a huge slice of the body we call Nigerian Judiciary functions that way.
He would later be manhandled by the police officers, who were called in by judicial authorities, on account of his insistence on carrying on with his crusade within court premises. “I am not going to back off” he said, “I am tired of this corruption. My magazine is just reaction”. He was ultimately vindicated, and was allowed to continue his important advocacy work.
Like many of us, legal training could mostly have prepared him to fight for a client’s interest. But it takes something more to make that tectonic shift from an exclusive “client” lawyering practice to “cause” lawyering’ activism; from the social and political neutrality of law to fighting for ideological social justice causes.
About 1.4 million Nigerians have been provided with electricity in underserved communities under the 2023 budgetary allocation, the Federal Government’s Rural Electricity Agency said, yesterday, in Abuja.
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