JUSTICE Aloma Mukhtar's inauguration as the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria a year ago, passed without much fanfare because of her character, a quality she has brought to judicial reforms, particularly the sanctioning of judges.
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Her appointment left her with the challenge of reforming an arm of government that bears its inadequacies with stoic embarrassment.
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Corruption in the judiciary is barely punished. Justice Mukhtar has confronted corruption in the judiciary.
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She has led the National Judicial Council to punish it.
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The flood of 198 petitions that got to the NJC in one year, though Mukhtar said 150 of them were frivolous, could be an indication of peoples' disappointments with the judiciary, as well as their expectation that Mukhtar would address the complaints.