The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, has written to heads of various courts in the country to hear time-bound cases during the ongoing lockdown.
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He urged all the heads of courts to ensure that "time-bound cases are treated with dispatch and accorded the required attention".
According to the statement by Malami's media aide, Dr. Umar Gwandu, the directive was communicated in a letter addressed to all heads of courts, dated April, 1, which conveyed the COVID- 19 regulation, 2020, of the Federal Government.
Malami said the directive by the Chief Justice of
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