Joseph Chu’ma Otteh: The man who changed human rights enforcement in Nigeria, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
The legal career of Joseph Chu’ma Otteh, whose mortal remains were committed to earth on 20 June 2025, could easily…
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Mohammed Lawal Uwais, 12 June 1936 – 6 June 2025, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
The father of a very senior lawyer and husband to a wife both capable and experienced as a lawyer, Uwais…
El-Tufiakwa for El-Rufai, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
One of the memorable moments from the presidential campaign ahead of Nigeria’s 2023 elections featured then ruling party candidate, Bola…
Before Nuhu Ribadu rides off into fantasy-land, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Marte, the headquarters of the eponymous Local Government Area (LGA) on the western floodplains of the Lake Chad in Borno…
Dangers of judicial selectorate in a democracy, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In March 2006, Uganda’s Supreme Court convened to begin adjudication of the disputes over the presidential election that occurred the…
“One-party participatory democracy” by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
On 13 December 1972, Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, signed into law the Constitution (Amendment) Acts, numbers 3,4 and 5…
The wages of presidential subterfuge, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Excluding the five years and three months of the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan from February 2010 to May 2015, Nigeria…
Public Criticism: SERAP asks Wike to withdraw call on BoB to sanction Odinkalu
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, to withdraw…
In Rivers, a republic of anomaly renews its methods, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on…
This sentinel at the door of Anambra State must succeed, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, south-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from…