CONFUSED ABOUT COURTS IN NIGERIA?
Let me save you from embarrassment before you go and price lawyer wrongly
Let me break it down so you donโt enter the wrong court and start sweating.
1. CUSTOMARY COURT
This one is for tradition and culture.
Marriage, family issues, land disputes based on custom.
If your case involves โour village people saidโ start here.
2. MAGISTRATE COURT
Small small cases.
Minor crimes, small debts, simple disputes.
Nothing too serious. No big grammar.
3. HIGH COURT
Now we are getting serious.
Big civil cases, serious criminal matters.
This court has power. Respect it.
4. FEDERAL HIGH COURT
If your problem is with the Federal Government or big agencies, come here.
Money laundering, EFCC, NDLEA, immigration, banking matters.
This one no be childโs play.
5. NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COURT
Work wahala court.
Employer vs employee. Salary, dismissal, workplace issues.
If your boss is stressing you, this is your bus stop.
6. COURT OF APPEAL
You are not happy with judgment?
You carry your matter come here.
They review what the lower courts have done.
7. SUPREME COURT
Final bus stop.
No argument again.
Once they talk, everybody go home.
FINAL LINE
Know where your case belongs.
So you donโt carry goat matter go lion court.
Ignorance of the law is not excuse.
ยฉ Stella Justice Nnennaya