The Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minster of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has commended the activities of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies for rendering valuable services in the country.
Malami made this known in a speech he delivered at the 2020 Founders’ Day Lecture organised by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020, in Abuja.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, to the Honourable Attorney General, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, on Tuesday, 17th March, 2020.
The statement read, “I must commend the Institute for its special relationship with the Federal Ministry of Justice, as the Institute enjoys a symbiotic relationship with my office. This has made the attainment of its statutory mandate assured and meaningful.”
Malami stated that the Institute has been very supportive to its parent Ministry in form of ground breaking researches and capacity building for our law officers.
“I recall that we often turn to the Institute when dealing with emerging areas of law such as Anti-Terrorism Law and Practice, ICT and Cyber crime laws, etc.”
Speaking on the theme “Nigeria In Quest of Good Governance, Law and Beyond Law”. Malami said the ideal of those concepts however seem to have been continuously flouted by most African States.
He noted that rule of law, being one of the key-components of good governance, plays a significant role in fine-tuning the required leadership style that is geared towards the attainment of a better society, hence the need for every nation/political entity and organisation to assimilate and indoctrinate same.
The Minister said being a formidable instrument of social change; law is used by mankind in addressing social vices and in paving ways for orderly society where peace and development thrives. Indeed, law has proved to be an inevitable phenomenon in the quest for good governance.
“By the appropriate utilization of the instrumentality of our legislature, we have been able to sponsor a good number of bills to the National Assembly in complementing the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari to bring about the much-needed good governance in our dear nation’’, he added.
Modupe Ogundoro
Deputy Director
