1No Food, No Defence: The quiet scandal in Nigerian universities, by Prof Adeyemi Ademowo BarandbenchApril 14, 2026April 14, 2026
3Insecurity worsens despite Tinubu’s promises, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (1) BarandbenchApril 12, 2026April 12, 2026
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
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 How to stand tall for an independent bar, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchAugust 23, 2025August 23, 20250 In 1981, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was already 16 years at the Nigerian Bar and one of its brightest stars. Already… 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 Sunday Jackson, victim of miscarriage of justice, by Chidi Odinkalu BarandbenchMarch 29, 2025March 29, 20250 Numan, the town that lends its name to one of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State in north-east… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Before we call it ECO-WAS, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchFebruary 2, 2025February 2, 20250 In the aftermath of the announcement on 28 January 2024 by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic denouncing the Revised… Read More
CommentaryFeatured In Kenya, William Ruto’s hustle is abductions, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJanuary 19, 2025January 19, 20250 Colonial occupation and domination prospered by abducting and liquidating the most vocal Africans. Those whom it drove into exile were… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Emmanuel Obioma Ogwuegbu: The Last of a few good men? BarandbenchNovember 17, 2024November 17, 20240 By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Phillip Adenekan Adekunle Ademola had everything it takes for an excellent career at the highest levels… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Expensively fiddling as country careens (EFCC), by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJuly 7, 2024July 7, 20240 In the last week of April 2024, Pastor and Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola… Read More