In this piece, Prof Chidi Anselm Odinkalu raises concerns over what he called the growing politicisation of Nigeria’s judiciary, alleging that some judges have become surrogates...
Ahead of Nigeria’s general elections in January and February 2027, Africa Confidential warns that “turnout in the elections is likely to be even lower than...
Twenty-four years after the killing of former Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Onitsha Branch chairman, Barnabas Igwe, and his wife, Abigail, former National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)...
The list of beneficiaries is so seedy, it reads like a bazaar for mostly people in a position to purchase the pardon. Those who do not...
the BoB also hosts the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC), the statutory body charged with enforcing consequences for ethical lapses in Nigeria’s legal profession. When it...
In 1981, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was already 16 years at the Nigerian Bar and one of its brightest stars. Already a breakout litigator, Gani had also...
This week, publishers Narrative Landscape will be releasing, The Selectorate, my book which tells the story of how Nigerian judges toppled the people. It is a...
When he was a Justice the Court of Appeal in the Port Harcourt Division, during the tenure of Mohammed Bello as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),...
Numan, the town that lends its name to one of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State in north-east Nigeria, is home to the Bwatiye...
In the aftermath of the announcement on 28 January 2024 by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic denouncing the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of...
