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Mohammed Lawal Uwais, 12 June 1936 – 6 June 2025, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu writes about the late Chief Justice of Nigeria, Muhammed Lawal Uwais.

Uwais was quietly uncompromising on judicial integrity. In a profound set of interviews with Princeton University in 2009, CJN Uwais underscored the need to eliminate bribery, corruption, nepotism and political interference within the judicial systems. A committed institutionalist with a peerless recall on the evolution of Nigeria’s judiciary, Uwais declined to write any memoirs. When […]

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