Tag: Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state. The Acting Chief Judge whom Governor Uzodinma wishes to preclude from consideration does not ...

This absorbing interplay of history, memory, identity, skill, athletic ability, and entertainment is why the FIFA World Cup continues to ...

In 1993, the country escaped ruination by the skin of its teeth. That would have been a prohibitive price to ...

“Divine right is an old, established principle. It means that kings have the right – ordained by God – to ...

On the eve of his decision to nominate Oliver Wendell Holmes as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ...

Litigants in cases involving party political interests have for long been used to judgment without justice. The phenomenon of verdict ...

As the country prepares for another milestone in its romance with sovereign organised crime in 2027, the authors of this ...

President Bola Tinubu This past week, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has publicly claimed that in taking over from President Muhammadu ...

A government that encourages lies against its own citizens in mass graves or under the thrall of atrocity abduction does ...

The Chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan To drive that point home, he chose to shred ...

As Africa approached the turn of the Millennium, the leaders of the continent were well on the way to reaching ...

Whether or not the facts justified the judge in invoking the power of contempt is not in dispute at this ...

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged….” - Matthew 7:1-2 ...

In October 2023, Moses Jitoboh sued. In the proceedings before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, he argued through his ...

...the Court of Appeal granted the JSC in Abia State permission to proceed to completion with a fresh round of ...

One can only hope that the present government of Abia State will show zero-tolerance for this network criminality and make ...

When he presented his budget proposals for 2024 to Nigeria’s National Assembly, the first full year of appropriations under his ...

“The term of office of judges, their independence, security, adequate remuneration, conditions of service, pensions and the age of retirement ...

Committed to extracting every penny of profit from the game, they have decided to kill the competition in its current ...

If you wanna live - treat me good If you wanna live, live - I beg you treat me good ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) has an opportunity in this present round of ...

A presidential directive cannot fix this political economy of policing in Nigeria. That requires imaginative and committed commitment of time ...

Alexander Hamilton may have called the judiciary “the least dangerous” branch, having “neither force nor will but merely judgment”, but ...

Consensus is also growing around the urgent need for an independent, international investigation and accountability. Meanwhile, Tanzania’s young people prepare ...

Increasingly, doctrines of judicial independence serve only one purpose: to render the judges independent of accountability for breaching it. The ...