Two months later, he and the retired judges reached an agreement to clear the backlog of 16 years of judicial pensions liability. Across Nigeria, retired judges are increasingly resorting to judicial proceedings to call attention to a crippling and chronic crisis of judicial pensions for judges who retired before June 2023. For long, the constitution provided for how to compute judicial pensions, but not necessarily for how to finance or administer them effectively. Effective from June 2023, a new constitutional amendment transferred responsibility for the administration of judicial pensions to the National Judicial Council (NJC). This crisis of judicial pensions and terminal benefits fosters a system of perverse incentives conducive to bartering judicial outcomes for material benefit.

Source: GNN Liberia January 26, 2026 10:36 UTC