CJN, NCC seek stronger judicial role in telecoms, online safety

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Motonmori Olatokunbo Kekere-Ekun, and the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, Aminu Maida, person called for a much technologically informed judiciary to tackle professionally the emerging ineligible challenges successful Nigeria’s rapidly increasing integer economy.

They some spoke astatine the Workshop for Judges connected Legal Issues successful Telecommunications held successful Lagos and organised by the National Judicial Institute successful collaboration with the NCC.

The store was themed “Adjudicating successful the Digital Era: The Judiciary’s Imperative successful Connectivity, Infrastructure Protection and Online Safety.” It assembled justices, judges, regulators, manufacture stakeholders, and information agencies to scrutinize and analyse the increasing intersection betwixt law, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and integer governance.

Represented by Hon. Justice I.M.M. Saulawa, the CJN said the emergence of integer exertion had fundamentally transformed governance, commerce, education, fiscal systems, and societal interaction, hence the judiciary cannot beryllium near out.

“The Judiciary cannot stay detached from these developments. The instrumentality indispensable respond to changing realities portion preserving the principles that prolong justness and soc...