'While the judiciary was still mourning him, another tragedy struck again on Sunday, July 30, 2023, with the passing of Justice Chima Nweze of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.'
Recently, the judiciary lost some of its justices, in quick succession, to the cold hands of death. ONOZURE DANIA examines the conditions of service for judges and their effect on the health of judiciary officers
Speaking on how to help shed some of the burdens and backlog of cases being faced by the judges and justices, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Babtunde Fashanu, stated that the government needed to step up in taking proper care of the judges. “The National Judicial Council is trying, but it needs to be more secure. They don’t even need to collect money from the government at all; it has to go straight to the judiciary, both at the federal and the state level, and not through any executive arm.”
Comparing that to the Nigerian situation, Fashanu said federal justices at the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court justices retire at the age of 70 compulsorily, while the high court judges’ retirement age was 65 until the Tinubu administration increased it to 70.
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