CJN Boosts Fight Against Terrorism
CJN Boosts Fight Against Terrorism Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria's fight against terrorism received a boost following the signing into law of a new fast track practice direction by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Mukhtar . The new practice direction allows Nigeria's Supreme Court to dispense with appeals bordering on trial for terrorism, kidnapping, rape, corruption and money laundering expeditiously. The Chief Registrar of the apex court, Mr. Sunday Olorundahunsi disclosed on Thursday in Abuja while addressing judiciary correspondents at a workshop on the Role of the Media in the Fight Against Terrorism organized by the Abuja Chapter of the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents, NAJUC. The Chief Registrar stated that the CJN was working with Chief judges of states' high courts, the Abuja High Court, the Federal High Court and the presiding justices of the various divisions of the Court of Appeal to put in place an effici...