Buhari ordered the immediate adoption of the revised judicial officer remuneration structure

The expanded wage and benefit program for judicial officers has been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, who also issued an executive order directing that steps be made to put it into effect right now.

At the official opening and handing over ceremony for the Nabo Graham-Douglass Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt to the Council of Legal Education, Buhari announced this.

This is stated in a statement made by Dr. Umar Gwandu, the Attorney General of the Federation’s special assistant on media and public relations.

Abubakar Malami, the AGF, sat in for Buhari.

Buhari directed the Chairman, Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Allocation Commission and minister of justice to promptly commence measures towards realisation and implementation across the country.

The steps, according to him, were intended to greatly increase the judiciary’s capability and independence, which he said remained a foundation of strength and stability for the country’s democracy.

To ensure a just, progressive, and affluent society with the rule of law as its cornerstone, he stated, “our government will continue to support initiatives to change the judiciary.”

He urged the judges to maintain upholding professional ethics and carry out their judicial and administrative tasks with accountability and integrity.

He also gave the Council of Legal Education a duty to uphold the trust by preserving and managing the project as best as possible to further the effort to raise and maintain high standards in legal education.

The legal profession depends on a solid education, moral principles, and excellent character; as a result, it is our unwavering obligation to uphold high standards for those who will eventually sit on the bar and the court.

He praised Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and expressed his gratitude to the state’s residents as well as the whole justice sector family for the initiative.

He stated that the project’s culmination was the construction of a new campus and its transfer to the Council of Legal Education, Nigerian Law School.

Additionally, he applauded the decision to name the campus after Nabo Graham-Douglas, SAN.

Graham-Douglas served as the Federation’s attorney general as well as the attorney general and commissioner for justice of Rivers State and Eastern Nigeria.