‘Courts are now market stalls’: Nigerians react to Justice Augie’s jabs on judiciary

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By Dayo Johnson, Regional Editor, South West
A retired justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Amina Adamu Augie, last week raised the alarm that corruption within Nigeria’s judiciary and legal profession is eroding public aconfidence in the administration of justice and transforming the courts into what she described as “market stalls.”
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