Tag: Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Aketi embodied all the virtues for which Owo, the frontier kingdom in Ondo State from which he came, is famous. ...

Yakubu Maikyau, NBA president. It is impossible to speak too lowly of this judgment, of the applicants who initiated it ...

When Justice Waziri considers himself in need to some distraction from his honeymoon and from the peregrinations of an itinerant ...

At the landmark of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the evidence of progress is unmistakable, ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola The CJN, it seemed, could not quite make up his mind about ...

Former Malawi Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda. In the Malawi, citizens learnt the hard way that the judiciary is ordinarily a ...

The courts no longer even pretend to tether their pronouncements to any sense of principle, precedent or proportion. To use ...

What seems evident right now is that through a series of jurisprudential manouvres over the past decade and a half, ...

The story that emerges is defined by its clarity, candour and contradiction. Nwabueze narrates an almost charmed progress through challenging ...

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio chairing a senate plenary session Godswill Obot Akpabio aspired to be president of Nigeria and ended ...

Former EFCC Chair, Abdulrasheed Bawa Around 6 February 2005, John Githongo, Permanent Secretary in Kenya’s Presidency responsible for Governance and ...

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola ...this has become the rule, not the exception. The result is that ...

Gavel and Themis statue in the court library. Initially, politicians appeared to believe that they needed to have excellent lawyers ...

By assigning priority to “political cases” in a manner that grants swift access to courts for politicians like Ahmad Lawan, ...

Mujahid Asari Dokubo. ...in 2023, the shoe is on the other foot. There is a new party at the helm ...

General Oligui Brice Nguema. The focus on what appears to be a contagion theory of coups in Africa misses the ...

In many African countries, increasingly, elections have become costly misadventures implemented to arrest choice and putting democracy in reverse. Citizens, ...

ECOMOG sodiers in Liberia. The use of force in defence of the idea of a sovereign republic or of democracy ...

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio chairing a Senate screening of Ministers. For playing their part excellently in this ritual, Senate President, ...

The focus on subsidy removal cops out of hard decisions on accountability and on shrinking the size and cost of ...

Picture credit: Reuters/Souleymane Camara If anything, there is recent evidence that Africans in many countries are increasingly open to the ...

This then is the narrative of interlocked and overlapping destinies and mutating machinations that makes "Policing the Nigeria Police" such ...

Bandits Quite clearly, successive regimes in Nigeria have found pockets of banditry useful in the enterprise of taking and keeping ...

As the country turns the page on a toxic eight years, there is an opportunity to re-think the metrics and ...

Senator Bulkachuwa and retired Justice Bulkachuwa. The only statement that has come out of the NJC meeting instead was about allocation ...