FeaturedNews Police arrest Sowore in Abuja after court proceedings BarandbenchOctober 23, 2025October 23, 20250 The police on Thursday arrested human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, in Abuja. Sowore was picked up… Read More
FeaturedNews Bishop Kukah to US: Don’t undermine Nigeria’s fragile religious harmony BarandbenchOctober 21, 2025October 21, 20250 The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has urged the United States not to re-designate Nigeria as a… Read More
CommentaryFeatured The scandal of Nigeria’s presidential pardons, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchOctober 19, 2025October 19, 20250 The list of beneficiaries is so seedy, it reads like a bazaar for mostly people in a position to purchase… Read More
FeaturedNews My expectations from new GOCOP President — Information Minister BarandbenchOctober 13, 2025October 13, 20250 Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has outlined his expectations from the newly elected President of the Guild… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Senior Advocates of No-Consequence (SANs), by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchOctober 11, 2025October 11, 20250 the BoB also hosts the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), the statutory body charged with enforcing consequences for ethical lapses… Read More
CommentaryFeatured For Nigeria, 24 million reasons to fear the future, asks Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchOctober 5, 2025October 5, 20250 When Olusegun Obasanjo took over in the middle of 1976 from the slain Murtala Mohammed as Nigeria’s military Head of… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Osun LG Matters: Sole issue before the S’Court, by Osun Leaders of Thought BarandbenchOctober 5, 2025October 5, 20250 Nowhere in the constitution does the Justice Minister possess powers to tamper with state or local government allocations The Supreme… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Tracing politicians’ trend of gifting judges with cars, houses, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchSeptember 14, 2025September 14, 20250 In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition,… Read More
FeaturedNews 2025 Annual Confab: Ex-Gov Masari is GOCOP’s keynoter BarandbenchSeptember 12, 2025September 12, 20250 A former Speaker of the House of Representatives and immediate past Governor of Katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari,… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Ministry of judges’ welfare, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchSeptember 7, 2025September 7, 20250 When the House of Lords, as the upper chamber of the UK Parliament is called, debated the Courts Bill introduced… Read More