Tag: Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Mike was one of those people who made you feel they were in your life long before you were conceived. ...

Mr Osewa’s apology hardly helped its author. First, it came from a place that hardly abjured collective punishment on grounds ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola Election petitions have become a preoccupation of judges in Nigeria and around ...

When he emerged as Vice-President in 2015, Osinbajo arrived with an intellect and record more accomplished than any previous occupants ...

INEC Chair, Professor Mahmood Yakubu Competitive authoritarianism is a system that seeks to confer legitimacy on electoral abracadabra through mechanisms ...

Irev Results viewing INEC's Portal.  Long after voting had closed, on Saturday night, the INEC’s results viewing portal had not ...

President Buhari is already a huge factor in the ballot with his insistence that the Central Bank’s currency reform should ...

Supreme Court of Nigeria 15 years ago, Olayiwola Aderemi, sitting as a Justice of Nigeria’s Supreme Court, warned that “democratic ...

Enugu Rangers was different, however. They represented the hopes of a people in search of dignity. They travelled across the ...

Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) at the donation ceremony of the courthouse in Ikere-Ekiti. It should be clear that this is ...

Thulani Maseko was the outstanding lawyer of his generation. His crime was to believe that his beloved eSwatini, Africa’s last ...

In 2023, the outcome of the presidential election will almost certainly rest on the meaning of “substantial compliance” in the ...

...when you look at the numbers on Nigeria’s register of voters and account for the fact that the baseline data ...

As Nigeria prepares for a seminal vote in 2023, one surprise is that japa is not getting more attention as ...

Football may indeed mirror life but it is not a cure for all of the world’s problems nor is it ...

The killings and abductions of lawyers and judges recounted here are only a fraction of the story. Three things are ...

In the past, the response of the NBA was to launch an appeal fund to assist lawyers in emergency in ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola Now, in the middle of high political season, we confront a judicial ...

Above all, Mohammed’s needs in life were very few. He had truly little regard for material possessions and was committed ...

In reality, the expression “detribalised” is worse than a patronising piece of colonial nonsense. It begins from a conceptual error ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola In the end, it is necessary to admit that there is no ...

Supreme Court of Nigeria One thing is clear: the Supreme Court’s appointments and replacement crisis is a symptom of the ...

The son of one whose life is steeped in the idea of power, Tunde preferred to focus on the power ...

Over two decades later, therefore, President Buhari’s national honours list in 2022 reads like a friends and family affair. The ...

INEC Chair, Professor Mahmood Yakubu In the face of these facts, it is unwarranted to regard INEC’s failure to organise ...