CommentaryFeatured Olukayode Ariwoola: The baleful legacy of a lamentable tenure, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchAugust 18, 2024August 18, 20240 At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week old… Read More
CommentaryFeatured In the Matter of the Yam Eating Division of the FCT High Court, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchAugust 10, 2024August 10, 20240 “Rights are only worth having if they are occasionally boisterous, often inconvenient and frequently tiresome.” Inigo Bing, The Ten Legal… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Lethal illegitimacy and the right to protest in Nigeria, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchAugust 3, 2024August 3, 20240 115 years ago, in 1909, Walter Egerton, the Barrister-turned-colonial administrator, and then Governor, introduced the Sedition Ordinance into the… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Julius Ihonvbere, Opeyemi Bamidele and this Prostitute of a Parliament, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJuly 28, 2024July 28, 20240 “….economic mismanagement, rabid corruption, irresponsible political behavior and squandermania, the near abandonment of the state by its very custodians weakened… Read More
CommentaryFeatured As Ariwoola takes the judiciary to the top of the grease pole, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJuly 20, 2024July 21, 20240 At the end of July 2017, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Nigeria’s National Bureau… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Rule by judges is not rule of law, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJuly 14, 2024July 14, 20240 “The judiciary has immense power. In the nature of things, judges cannot be democratically accountable for their decisions. It therefore… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Abdullahi Liman and the making of a judicial scandal, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJune 30, 2024June 30, 20240 In the month since 23 May 2024, when – during hours reserved by nature entirely for meetings of witches… Read More
Commentary Enugu Rangers Veterans: Preserving memory and honoring a legacy, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJune 23, 2024June 23, 20240 Umuawulu, a sleepy settlement in Awka, the capital of Anambra State in the south-east, is the unlikely origin of… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Africa’s Continental Criminal Court can no longer wait, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJune 16, 2024June 16, 20240 Less than a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts… Read More
CommentaryFeatured Let’s talk STD – Sexually Transmitted Distinction, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu BarandbenchJune 9, 2024June 9, 20240 In this case, the claim is that the Chairman of the Body of Benchers has sought to ransack the… Read More