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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 ...

Ese Oruru (Aisha Chuwas) In April 2020, then governor of Kano State in north-west Nigeria, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, took time ...

In September 1887, Harry Johnston, acting consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs ...

In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition ...

When the House of Lords, as the upper chamber of the UK Parliament is called, debated the Courts Bill introduced ...

Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GEJ should know that those importuning him for a tilt at the presidency in ...

Late Gani Fawehinmi Independence of the legal profession is not a privilege handed out on a platter. It is fought ...

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu aThis is not an attack on the judicial branch. It is a call to conscience. Judges are ...

The only persons whom the courts are willing to hear in Nigeria’s elections are political parties, their candidates or INEC. ...

In Nigeria where the decision on whom to confer the mandate to rule has been relocated by fiat of the ...

“The mind grows old, no less than the body.” Aristotle, The Politics, Book II, Ch. 9, 146 (Penguin Classics, 1981) ...

The durability of Nigeria’s insecurity crisis is essentially a crisis of irresponsible political leadership. The security services can only implement ...

Joseph Chu’ma Otteh Most lawyers retail their skills, and are content to do their cases. Joe did his law wholesale. ...

Late Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais Uwais was quietly uncompromising on judicial integrity. In a profound set of interviews with Princeton ...

National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu (PHOTO CREDIT: X @NuhuRibadu) The evidence is everywhere in the rising casualty count which NSA ...

In March 2006, Uganda’s Supreme Court convened to begin adjudication of the disputes over the presidential election that occurred the ...

Anambra North senatorial constituency comprises seven Local Government Areas (LGAs). These are: Anambra East, Anambra West, Anyamelum, Ogbaru, Onitsha North, ...

These latest dispositions by the NJC are worse than slaps on the wrist of errant judges. Far from discouraging judicial ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu It is impossible to behold the orchestrated emptying of opposition political parties currently on-going in Nigeria ...

The presidency is more than just an office. For those around the occupant of the office, it also means money, ...