Nigerian-trained international lawyer, Professor Dapo Akande, has been elected a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), following a vote by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council. Akande, a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford, will serve a nine-year term at the UN’s principal judicial organ, which adjudicates legal disputes between states and ...
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