The Federal High Court in Lagos has launched electronic affidavit (e-affidavit) process for litigants and other users.
Recall that the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, had in June introduced e-affidavits into the court’s practice directions in line with global best practices.
The Deputy Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court in Lagos, Godwin Longe, during a facility inspection said the new technology can only process affidavits that are non-cases related.
“Affidavits filed to support a case are still done manually because of the peculiar disposition in such affidavits,” Longe said.
Speaking, the Head of the court’s ICT department, Agwu Charles, explained how the public can use the innovation.
“It is now a norm that the affidavit for loss of items, age declaration, change of name, etc can now be done online via portal.fhc.gov.ng and following the instructions.
“What you just need to do is to log on to the site at portal.fhc.gov.ng,” he said.
He stressed that with the online system, people do not necessarily have to be physically present to procure the type of affidavits mentioned above.
