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THE NIGERIAN JUDICIARY TRENDS SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Legal scholars have propounded numerous aphorisms to cloak as most critical leg of tripod on which democracy rest. For example, judiciary has been described as the last hope of Common man; the temple of justice with judge as high priest; the institution vested with power to play God; the sentinel of justice; indeed as Prof. Oyebode postulates, it is almost axiomatic that judiciary play a pre-eminent role in any democratic dispensation.