LEVERAGING EMERGING LEGAL CHALLENGES TO THE RULE OF LAW IN THE PREVAILING SOCIO-ECONOMIC REALITIES IN NIGERIA
BY
HON. JUSTICE ALABA OMOLAYE AJILEYE, PhD (Rtd)

BAZE UNVERSITY, ABUJA
BEING THE 9TH BADAGRY LAW LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE 9TH ANNUAL LAW WEEK OF THE BADAGRY BRANCH OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION

HELD OF THURSDAY, 9/11/2023 AT THE NATIONAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF NIGERIA, IJANIKIN

It is a privilege to speak at this 9th Law Week Program of the Badagry Bar on the topic “Leveraging Emerging Legal Challenges to the Rule of Law in the Prevailing Socio-Economic Realities in Nigeria.” The topic is scaled down in its form but expanded in its character to address a broad spectrum of the challenges to the rule of law in Nigeria. This is to discharge ourselves from unnecessary fetters that will hinder our discussion in limiting it to such challenges that the topic describes as “legal challenges.” Today we should reflect on some basic challenges to the rule of law that are emerging in Nigeria. Some of these challenges are obvious while some are not so obvious. In this lecture, we shall navigate into contemporary and current matters or prevailing issues relating to challenges to the rule of law. The word “emerging” suggests that our discussion should depart from the old and antiquated challenges and focus on challenges that are just appearing, The word “realities” in the topic must also not be ignored. Reality means, ”the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea.” Issues to be discussed here will, therefore, be presented as they truly are. In this regard, within the space of time permitted, I have chosen to focus attention on five emerging challenges: corruption, gradual erosion of public trust in the Judiciary, the idea of regionalising justice, the mode of appointing judges, and the bad side of social media. Some of these reflect new ideas and new phenomena against the rule of law.

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