Tag: Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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

The culture wars. In reality, this recent slew of laws on human sexuality across Africa is very much about politics. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari ...leadership at the highest levels requires not just asceticism and discipline; it is also about coalition building ...

When they arrive in less than a fortnight, those whose livelihoods depend on this successor may decide that using that ...

Supreme Court of Nigeria Politicians have learnt to turn election dispute resolution into auditions for the shifting of judicial deck ...

In the face of arguably the continent’s most serious crisis since the Rwanda Genocide, the AU’s response has been inexplicably ...

Hudu Yunusa-Ari, former INEC REC in Adamawa State. In many ways, the drama that accompanied the Adamawa State governorship elections ...

With a current landmass of 1,886,068 km2, Sudan is nearly double the size of Nigeria and the third largest country ...

Those who wonder how these killings have lasted and deepened in intensity for as long as they have need not ...

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 ...