Category: Justice
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George Sodeinde Sowemimo was the Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985, and judge for 32 years. Born in 1920, Sowmemimo grew up in the north, from Zaria to Kano where he attended Holy Trinity School. Moving down south, he went to C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos, and worked briefly with the National Railway Corporation…
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Eko Akete 1924 By Editor, Adekambi Indispensible part in the Administration of justice The legal education in recent years has attracted a lot of attention locally. This fact is evident from the great increase in the learned members of the Bar but yet in spite of this state of affairs how strange is it that…
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Dipomu, in Yoruba language, Di opo mu, meaning ‘catch hold of the post’. Ancient judicial practise in southwest Nigeria in which an offender or anyone who was in trouble sought sanctuary in the king’s palace. A veranda post is usually grabbed to claim the king’s protection. The Dipomu system had been highly effective in divorce…
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Judiciary makes the third arm of the Nigerian government, the other two being executive, and the legislature. The law, including the ones being made by the legislative arm is interpreted and applied in adjudicating in disputes arising between separate entities. The Supreme Court, as the highest court, is the last stop on all appeal matters.…
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ADEMOLA Adetokunbo, Doyen of Nigerian Judiciary. Ademola was the last Chief Justice of Nigeria appointed by the colonial authorities, thereafter the longest indigenous Chief Justice of the nation, serving fourteen years from April 1958. He was thus leader of the judiciary both during the nation’s joys of independence and in her worst moments of crisis.…
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Samuel Olumuyiwa Jibowu was the first Nigerian Judge who was also Chief Justice of Lagos and the old Western region successively. Jibowu was born on August 26 1899 at Abeokuta. He attended Abeokuta Grammar School and Oxford University in England. He was called to Bar in 1923 at Middle Temple London. From 1931 he acted…
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Lawyers, also called attorneys, solicitors, counselors, or barristers, are the ones qualified to offer advice concerning the law and to represent clients in legal matters. The American Bar Association includes that he or she upholds the law in the cause of this function. He or she lives, in the words of Alexander Sapara Williams, for the…
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Alexander Sapara Williams was the 19th Century lawyer, who when called to bar at the Inner Temple in 1879 became Nigeria’s first to qualify as an advocate. His clamour for press freedom, and opposition of the Seditious Offences Ordinances of 1909 which fortified Colonial authority against dissidence provided the background upon which Herbert Macaulay and…