At the end of July 2017, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) issued a joint...
“The judiciary has immense power. In the nature of things, judges cannot be democratically accountable for their decisions. It therefore matters very much that their role...
In the month since 23 May 2024, when – during hours reserved by nature entirely for meetings of witches and wizards – he began sitting...
Umuawulu, a sleepy settlement in Awka, the capital of Anambra State in the south-east, is the unlikely origin of one of the greatest sporting resumes...
Less than a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague could easily have...
In this case, the claim is that the Chairman of the Body of Benchers has sought to ransack the governance of the Body generally and...
Under the watch of its current Chief Judge, John Tsoho, the Court has developed a reputation as a safe harbour for a coven of judicial renegades...
Mohammed Ladan Tsamiya probably believed he was a commodities trader who happened also to moonlight as a Justice of the Court of Appeal. To him, both...
Human rights activist, Prof Chidi Odinkalu has faulted the on-going move to review upward the salaries of judicial officers by 800% while neglecting the welfare of...
“I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of law to be discredited.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Fugitive Slave Law,...
