Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo paid visit to the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) in Arusha, Tanzania

On 2nd September 2021, Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo departed from Abuja to Arusha, the northeastern region of the United Republic of Tanzania, on a short visit. Among other engagements,

While in Arusha, Prof. Osinbajo paid a visit to the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR), an African Union agency Headquarters in Arusha.  Professor Osinbajo on Friday, 3rd September, 2021 met with judges of the court, led by the President, Lady Justice Imani Daud Aboud, at the Arusha, Tanzania, office of the AU judicial agency. Nigeria and Tanzania, have maintained cordial trade and diplomatic relations on brotherly hood bases built since the two countries gained independence.

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is a continental court established by the member states of the African Union by virtue of Article 1 of the Protocol to the Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights which came into operation in November 2006 seeking to enhance the protection of human and peoples’ rights on the continent.