As S’Court prepares for Rivers proxy wars, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Depending on what view one takes of the matter, 10 February 2025 promises to be Proxy Wars Day at the…
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That Olukayode Ariwoola memoirs, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
On 22 August 2024, Olukayode Ariwoola, the penultimate Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) retired from the bench and transitioned into…
Does Africa have a January problem, asks Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In Imo State, for instance, where the National Judicial Council (NJC) has removed the Chief Judge for falsifying her age,…
In the matter of GTBank’s persecution of poor bloggers, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
By the time Muhammadu Buhari ran for a second presidential term in 2019, it seemed clear that the judicial process…
Nigeria’s hostages in law, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In 1991, Nigeria was in the full throes of the interminable transition to civil rule programme of General Ibrahim Babangida….
In the matter of Dele Farotimi before the Star Chamber, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Paul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in north-central Nigeria who had a young son…
Right of Reply: When will the judges who cheated on their age be made to account, by Johnson Agwu
On 20 October 2024, I was gloomy. It was four years since the #EndSARS protests by Nigerian Youths against police…
140 years after the Berlin West Africa Conference
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu & Chepkorir Sambu Described by one scholar on its centenary as “perhaps the greatest historical movement…
Our perspectives on Gov Sanwo-Olu’s dinner for CJN—SANs
In this report, Ise-Oluwa Ige explores the background facts surrounding the on-going ‘war’ in the cyber sphere on the appropriateness…
How two Josephs gave Nigeria a crisis of jumpy judges, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
The unraveling of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon shortly after the end of Nigeria’s civil war in the decade…