Nigeria, Oct. 15 -- President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerian judges to close procedural loopholes that politically exposed persons and organised crime suspects exploit to delay or frustrate criminal trials.

He said the fight against corruption would make little progress without an independent judiciary willing to adapt to emerging forms of financial crime.

Mr Tinubu spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at the eighth annual capacity-building workshop for judges and justices organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the National Judicial Institute (NJI). He was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima.

"Probe prosecution strategies, dismantle outdated precedents, and seal procedural gaps that politically exposed pers...