When judges suffer terror, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Around 26 May 2020, the Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced that Raphael Yanyi, a senior…
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Odinkalu worries over judiciary’s silence on abducted Borno judge, wife, aides
A prominent rights activist, lawyer and academic, Professor Chidi Odinkalu, is worried over the silence by judicial authorities on the…
Some cautionary thoughts about reforming Nigeria’s judiciary, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Seven years after his emergence as Nigeria’s military Head of State, in the third quarter of 1974, General Yakubu…
An agenda for the new Chief Justice of Nigeria
By Ernest Ojukwu, SAN; Sam Erugo, SAN; Chidi Anselm Odinkalu; & Mbasekei Martin Obono Amid the greatest crisis of judicial…
Olukayode Ariwoola: The baleful legacy of a lamentable tenure, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week old…
In the Matter of the Yam Eating Division of the FCT High Court, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“Rights are only worth having if they are occasionally boisterous, often inconvenient and frequently tiresome.” Inigo Bing, The Ten Legal…
Lethal illegitimacy and the right to protest in Nigeria, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
115 years ago, in 1909, Walter Egerton, the Barrister-turned-colonial administrator, and then Governor, introduced the Sedition Ordinance into the…
Julius Ihonvbere, Opeyemi Bamidele and this Prostitute of a Parliament, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“….economic mismanagement, rabid corruption, irresponsible political behavior and squandermania, the near abandonment of the state by its very custodians weakened…
As Ariwoola takes the judiciary to the top of the grease pole, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
At the end of July 2017, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Nigeria’s National Bureau…
Rule by judges is not rule of law, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“The judiciary has immense power. In the nature of things, judges cannot be democratically accountable for their decisions. It therefore…