Commentary El-Tufiakwa for El-Rufai, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJune 1, 2025June 1, 20250 One of the memorable moments from the presidential campaign ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 elections featured then ruling party candidate, Bola… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Before Nuhu Ribadu rides off into fantasy-land, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchMay 25, 2025May 25, 20250 Marte, the headquarters of the eponymous Local Government Area (LGA) on the western floodplains of the Lake Chad in Borno… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Dangers of judicial selectorate in a democracy, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchMay 17, 2025May 17, 20250 In March 2006, Uganda’s Supreme Court convened to begin adjudication of the disputes over the presidential election that occurred the… Read More
Commentary Why criminal diversion of 3.4b dollar IMF loan must be probed–Falana, SAN BarandbenchMay 11, 2025May 11, 20250 Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday confirmed that Nigeria had fully repaid the $3.4 billion COVID-19 financial… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Nigeria: The making of a judicial selectorate, by Chidi Odinkalu BarandbenchMay 11, 2025May 11, 20250 This week, publishers Narrative Landscape will be releasing, The Selectorate, my book which tells the story of how Nigerian judges… Read More
Bar and BenchCommentary Blessed are the crooked judges, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchMay 4, 2025May 4, 20250 When he was a Justice the Court of Appeal in the Port Harcourt Division, during the tenure of Mohammed Bello… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Inmates on Death Row: Killing in the name of law, by Richard Akinnola BarandbenchMay 2, 2025May 2, 20250 I know this is a controversial subject. However, l have not changed my long-held position against the death penalty.Nothing can… Read More
CommentaryFeatured “One-party participatory democracy” by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchApril 27, 2025April 27, 20250 On 13 December 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5… Read More
CommentaryFeatured The wages of presidential subterfuge, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchApril 20, 2025April 20, 20250 Excluding the five years and three months of the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan from February 2010 to May 2015, Nigeria… Read More
Bar and BenchCommentary An anatomy of parliamentary sexploits, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchApril 12, 2025April 12, 20250 2025 has not been easy on Nigerians. The economy has looked far from bright; the weather has been suffocating; and… Read More