Bar and BenchFeatured Public Criticism: SERAP asks Wike to withdraw call on BoB to sanction Odinkalu BarandbenchApril 1, 2025April 1, 20250 The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, to withdraw… Read More
CommentaryFeatured In Rivers, a republic of anomaly renews its methods, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchMarch 24, 2025March 24, 20250 In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on… Read More
CommentaryFeatured This sentinel at the door of Anambra State must succeed, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchMarch 2, 2025March 2, 20250 Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, south-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from… Read More
CommentaryFeatured My father refused to swear in Muhammadu Buhari after 1983 coup, by Seyi Sowemimo, SAN BarandbenchFebruary 23, 2025February 23, 20250 I am grateful to Seyi Sowemimo, SAN, and Abdul Jinadu respectively for taking time to address matters of historical record… Read More
CommentaryFeatured In defence of judicial authority, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchFebruary 16, 2025February 16, 20250 The judiciary,…. has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Why S’Court should not be ‘cannibalized’, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchFebruary 9, 2025February 9, 20250 It will also dis-establish the court because a “Supreme Court” that sits in judicial divisions will be neither apex nor… Read More
CommentaryFeatured As S’Court prepares for Rivers proxy wars, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJanuary 26, 2025January 26, 20250 Depending on what view one takes of the matter, 10 February 2025 promises to be Proxy Wars Day at the… Read More
CommentaryFeatured That Olukayode Ariwoola memoirs, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJanuary 12, 2025January 12, 20250 On 22 August 2024, Olukayode Ariwoola, the penultimate Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) retired from the bench and transitioned into… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Does Africa have a January problem, asks Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJanuary 5, 2025January 5, 20250 In Imo State, for instance, where the National Judicial Council (NJC) has removed the Chief Judge for falsifying her age,… Read More
CommentaryFeatured In the matter of GTBank’s persecution of poor bloggers, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchDecember 29, 2024December 29, 20240 By the time Muhammadu Buhari ran for a second presidential term in 2019, it seemed clear that the judicial process… Read More