In Rivers State, a supreme iniquity?, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Chief Justice of Nigeria Kekere-Ekun When Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, showed up reportedly to turn the sod on ...
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This Sentinel at the door of Anambra State must succeed, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
...the audacity of Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo in enacting the new Anambra State Homeland Security Law, 2025 is welcome, because ...
Re: In defence of judicial authority: Two clarifications, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
I am grateful to Seyi Sowemimo (SAN) and Abdul Jinadu respectively for taking time to address matters of historical record ...
In defence of judicial authority, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
First, as a matter of law, the Chief Judge may be a first among his peers but he is no ...
Before the Supreme Court of Nigeria becomes a commune of Bantustans, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Supreme Court of Nigeria The crisis of appellate throughput and its consequences which presently afflicts Nigeria’s Supreme Court is too ...
As Nigeria’s Supreme Court prepares for Rivers State proxy wars, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Supreme Court of Nigeria The Supreme Court can end this but feigns reluctance to. Rather, the court affords powerful politicians ...
In Kenya, William Ruto’s hustle is abductions, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
President William Ruto. Picture credit: Bas Czerwinski/AP It seems clear that these abductions in Kenya are taking place under the ...
Does Africa have a January problem?, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
When he wrote in 1968, Ali Mazrui thought that the opening months of the year seemed to guarantee turbulence in ...
In the matter of GTBank’s persecution of poor bloggers, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In this case of Precious Eze and Olawale Olurotimi, that should be even moreso, given that the travesty is procured ...
Nigeria’s hostages in law, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Dele Farotimi Those who wonder how the country ended up with the utterly shameful charade being orchestrated in a squalid ...
Tinubu’s taxing times, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Fiscal governance and reform is not as complex as the administration and its mouthpieces would like ...
In the matter of Dele Farotimi before the Star Chamber, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Somewhere in Ekiti State on International Human Rights Day 2024, the very rights consecrated by the Universal Declaration of Human ...
Egbetokun lo’kan, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
IGP Kayode Egbetokun In 1982, on the foothills of the road to Nigeria’s 1983 general elections, it was quite clear ...
Nigeria’s Federal High Court: A scandalised court, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho. This is not the first time the Federal High Court ...
Hail to the (new) Chief Justice, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun For the moment, we must welcome to this high office only the second woman ...
Unmasking Tinubu’s government of NADECO veterans, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Instead, many courts, under the thumb of their Chiefs or administrative judges have become enablers of the authoritarian instincts of ...
History, hissy fits, and hatchetry about the Igbo, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In Professor Bako’s fantastic world, these Igbo are an ethnic group in perpetual conspiracy. In reality, he comes across as ...
When judges suffer terror, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
At the beginning of January 2012, for instance, an unknown gunman entered the house of Baba Loskurima, registrar of the ...
Some cautionary thoughts about reforming Nigeria’s judiciary, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In reality, however, the principal problem that ails Nigeria’s judicial system is that the guardrails and incentives for ethical judicial ...
An agenda for the new Chief Justice of Nigeria, By Odinkalu, Ojukwu, Erugo & Obono
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun Amid the greatest crisis of judicial authority since Nigeria’s independence in 1960, President Bola ...
Lethal illegitimacy and the right to protest in Nigeria, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
#EndBadGovernance protesters in Ibadan, Oyo State The colonists defaulted to violence in response to protest because they lacked legitimacy with ...
As Ariwoola takes the judiciary to the top of the grease pole, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola It is a fitting coda to the tenure of outgoing Chief Justice of ...
Rule by judges is not rule of law, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola ...the judges have toppled the people and installed themselves as the ones ...
Expensively fiddling as country careens (EFCC), By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Olanipekun Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Evidently, the EFCC under its current leadership has made ...
Abdullahi Liman, and the making of a judicial scandal, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
The evidence of judicial malpractice in this case is compelling. Let’s begin from the beginning. On Thursday, 20 June, Abdullahi ...
