FG charges new Legal Aid Council board to extend services to all 774 LGAs

The Federal Government on Wednesday inaugurated a new Governing Board for the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, with the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, charging the board to deepen access to justice for poor and indigent Nigerians.
Fagbemi, speaking at the inauguration in Abuja, described the exercise as central to the administration’s legal and judicial reform agenda, saying it was designed to make the justice system “more efficient, transparent, accountable, and fundamentally people-centered.”
He traced the origins of organised legal aid in Nigeria to 1974, when the late Chief Chimezie Ikeazor, SAN, founded the Nigerian Legal Aid ...