Akwa Ibom Chief Judge calls for careful application of AI in Nigeria’s justice system

Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Justice Ekaete Fabian Obot, has called for systematic exertion of Artificial Intelligence successful the medication of justness successful Nigeria.

She cautioned that technology indispensable stay “the servant of justice, not its master.”

Obot stated this portion delivering an code entitled, “Justice successful the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Transforming Nigeria’s Justice Sector done the Efficient Use of Artificial Intelligence,” astatine a nationalist lecture marking the 2026/2027 ineligible twelvemonth successful Akwa Ibom. 

The Chief Judge noted that the Judiciary cannot spend to stay isolated from the accelerated technological developments reshaping virtually each assemblage of society.

She stressed, however, that the adoption of Artificial Intelligence successful the justness assemblage indispensable beryllium guided by judicial values, ethical considerations, transparency, and the request to sphere the independency and integrity of the judicial process.

According to her, “Artificial Intelligence has the imaginable to amended ratio successful the medication of justness by assisting with ineligible research, lawsuit management, transcription, documentation and different regular processes.

“Technology should complement, alternatively than regenerate the judgment, discretion and work of judicial officers.”

Justice Fabian-Obot maintained that the eventual intent of each techn...