The Supreme Court of Nigeria should be unbundled
Written by Obol Okoi Obono-Obla The Supreme Court of Nigeria ,Court of Appeal, and the National Judicial Council should be federalized and decentralized. You recollect there was a Western Nigeria Court of Appeal headed by Justice Akintola Aguda in the 1960s before military incursion into governance led to its abolishing in 1967. Let every state have its own Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. The National Judicial Council should be abolished, and its responsibilities performed by States Judicial Councils. Why not ? 60 something years ago, we had a federalized judiciary. We had the Western Nigeria Court of Appeal. Military rule abolished it and unitarized the judiciary. Why should assault, libel traffic property inheritance, matrimonial cases etc, go to the Supreme Court? The Supreme Court is not working optimally and efficiently as it should. It is ovrrburdebed and vested with excessive jurisdiction. The Supreme Court should be unbundled and shed of excess load. I have appeals in th