The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Justice John Terhemba Tsoho, has disclosed that 155,969 cases are pending across its divisions in Nigeria for the year 2024.
Tsoho made this disclosure on Monday at the opening of the 2024/2025 Special Legal Year court session of the Federal High Court, attended by Nairametrics analysts.
The Chief Judge seized the moment to provide the audience with a status update on litigation before the court in the past legal year, 2023/2024.
Breakdown of Cases
- According to the Chief Judge, at the beginning of the 2024 legal year, a total of 152,469 cases were pending and carried over from the previous legal year.
“Within the legal year under review (2023/2024), a total of 13,648 cases were filed, and 10,148 were disposed of, leaving 155,969 cases pending, which have been carried over to the current legal year,” he said.
- He explained that these figures represent the following cases: Civil – 43,030; Criminal – 41,335; Fundamental Rights…