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The Dawn of Legal Acculturation in Nigeria—A Significant Development in Law and National Integration: Olowu V. Olowu

The recent decision of the Supreme Court inAdeniyi Olowu &Ors. v.Olabowale Olowu & Anorto the effect that a person belonging originally to one ethnic group can by a process involving time, association, marriage, personal wishes and manner of life, become assimilated into and thereby legally acquire the status of another ethnic group, is of great significance. For it breaks new ground, gives legal backing to the promotion of social and national integration and establishes very clearly for the benefit of legal philosophers and theoreticians, that courts in fact make law. Previously, it was belie…