The judicial system of the pre-colonial Hausa/Fulani Society with that of the lgbo, has the following distinction:
(i) The pre-colonial Igbo society was segmented and fragmented and was known as acephalous, while the Hause/ Fulani was based on centralization.
(ii) The Hausa/Fulani had all the organs of government concentrated in the central authority of the Emir and the lgbo society had no single central authority. Political power was decentralised.
(iii) Judicial power was with the Emir in pre-colonial Hausa/Fulani, while the Igbo had no such system.
(iv) There was no sole authority administering in judicial matters in lgbo land while in Hausa/Fulani, the Alkali was the trained judge especially in religious matters.
(v) Sharia, was a body of Islamic laws and it governed the Hausa/Fulani judicial matters, while the lgbo had no such system.
(vi) In Igbo pre-colonial system, the age grades and some other institutions played a major role in the execution of policies and laws made by the council of elders, while the Emirs did the execution of laws and policies in Hausa/Fulani system