{"id":61772,"date":"2025-02-25T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61772"},"modified":"2025-02-25T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:52:07","slug":"judiciary-on-trial-lawyers-demand-urgent-reforms-to-restore-public-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/25\/judiciary-on-trial-lawyers-demand-urgent-reforms-to-restore-public-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary on Trial: Lawyers Demand Urgent Reforms to Restore Public Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian lawyers are sounding the alarm over deep-rooted corruption in the judiciary, blaming the nation&#8217;s flawed political system for fostering bias and eroding public trust.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent forum in Abuja, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, acknowledged persistent allegations of corruption, judicial delays, and bias, warning that these issues threaten the judiciary&#8217;s credibility and weaken public confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite ongoing reforms, challenges remain. Allegations of corruption and inefficiency continue to undermine our authority,&#8221; the CJN stated, urging decisive action to restore faith in the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), President, Afam Osigwe, SAN, stressed the need for lawyers to uphold ethical standards, promising accountability for those who breach professional conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Abdul Balogun, SAN, and other legal experts highlighted that the judiciary is not immune to societal corruption but emphasized that legal safeguards exist to hold wrongdoers accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Civil society leader, Eletu O., of the Public Accountability and Justice Initiative, warned that political interference has further damaged public trust, calling for the judiciary to &#8220;look inward and purge itself&#8221; to regain credibility.<\/p>\n<p>With increasing calls for reform, stakeholders insist that restoring integrity within Nigeria\u2019s judiciary is essential for safeguarding democracy and ensuring true justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Nigerian lawyers are sounding the alarm over deep-rooted corruption in the judiciary, blaming the nation&#8217;s flawed political system for fostering bias and eroding public trust. At a recent forum in Abuja, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, acknowledged persistent allegations of corruption, judicial delays, and bias, warning that these issues threaten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61774,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61772\/revisions\/61774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}