In a remark at the summit, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said expeditious dispensation of justice can no longer wait.

While speaking on the process of appointment of judges, Mr Osinbajo noted that candidates for judicial offices must be subjected to a rigorous process that throws up the best minds who would be entrusted with the power of “life and death.”

“The process of appointment of judges is the least rigorous in Nigeria,” the Vice President said, adding, “There shouldn’t be a ‘bowing-and-go’ of potential judges during interviews.”

In the same vein, NBA’s president, Olumide Akpata, said the problems confronting Nigeria’s justice sector were not insurmountable.

He argued that Nigerian “courts must be manned by not just the best hands we can find but also by incorruptible minds.”