Yoruba
For this community, conflict resolution is carried out in three tiers. At the nuclear family levels, the head of the family, Bale, resolved cases such as conflicts among co-wives, brothers and sisters, truants, and street fights involving his children and his foster children or dependants.
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The Mogaje, usually the most influential or eldest member of the extended family is responsible for resolving cases within the extended family while the Baale, a group of chiefs, will deal with cases between households in a quarter or ward under their jurisdiction. All these units resolved civil cases such as land dispute, neglecting family, infidelity and inheritance problems.
Where these units could not resolve a case, it was handled by the Chief-in-council, highest traditional institution for conflict resolution, which had the power to hand a death sentence to an offender before it.
Criminal cases were resolved by the court of the king, which also acted as the appellate court.
