Industrial Court Nigeria Has 6,000 Pending Cases
I think Nigeria needs to hire more lawyers. After all, we have many of them. Having 6,000 pending cases with an average of 2,300 handled yearly will not improve the ease of doing business. Those cases are companies with no certainty on the future.
The president of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), Justice Benedict Kanyip, said on Monday in Abuja that the court disposed of 1, 486 cases in the outgone 2019 to 2020 legal year.
He said over 6,000 cases are pending before the court.
Mr Kanyip made this known at a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new 2020 to 2021 legal year.
He said the figure was understandable as 627 cases were disposed of in the fourth quarter of 2019, while in the first quarter of 2020, a total number of 619 were disposed.
Mr Kanyip said the figure however, dropped to 240 in the second quarter of 2020, the period in which the COVID-19 lockdown was most severe, according to him.