Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
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Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo
On World Teachers Day, October 5, 2021, a collective of former students from different parts of the world congregated to pay homage to a former teacher. They included professors, army → Read More
#NigeriaDecides2023: A tragic farce
Despite recent advances in Malawi and Zambia, elective government stutters and sputters to the uncertain rhythms of pathogens and politicians across Africa. The onset of 2022 served notice that #NigeriaDecides2023 → Read More
Supreme hooliganism?
In June 2020, Malawians took to the streets and the judges joined to resist the attempt by President Peter Mutharika to fire Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda in order to enable → Read More
Why philanthropy stops at building a courthouse
“Nothing is to be done which creates even a suspicion that there has been an improper interference with the course of justice.” Lord Hewart, 9 Nov, 1923 in R v. → Read More
How insecurity could decide who becomes Nigeria's next president
Nigeria first voted in presidential elections just over 43 years ago in October 1979. The introduction to this form of government was not very auspicious. Four years into the experience, → Read More
How many voters are there in Nigeria?
Numeracy is a Nigerian problem but electoral democracy is about counting numbers. Nigerians will vote to elect a president and national legislators on February 25, 2023. On March 11, they → Read More
Japa: The verb that became a noun
Ileka finished high school the youngest member of his graduating set and one of the brightest. He attended an international school in Lagos, where the fees were out of the → Read More
Qatar 2022 miscellaneous
On 2 July, 2005, Argentina and Nigeria contested the finals of the FIFA World Youth (Under-20) Championships at the Galgenwaard Stadion in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Both teams had navigated a → Read More
Counting the kidnapped and the killed among Nigeria’s judges and lawyers
To survive in Nigeria’s legal profession these days, practitioners and judges require skills in the martial arts; nimbleness of feet on an Olympian scale; weapons handling; not to mention advanced → Read More
Kill all the lawyers
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 Tamuno Igbikiberebima is an unlikely star in an action → Read More
A season of political malapropisms
Politics in Nigeria is largely of the transhumant variety. It is not defined by any big ideas. With the exception of perhaps the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politicians have → Read More
Detribalised Nigerian does not exist; it never did
In 1989, academics, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin published to great acclaim their study of the evolution of the diverse dialects of English language from different Empire. Their → Read More
Saving the supreme court from crises
Over the past fortnight, this column has addressed the multiple dimensions of the crises of attrition, retention, and replacemt Supreme Court → Read More
Still on the crises in Nigeria’s supreme court
When he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1993, Yekini Olayiwola Adio had already been on the bench for 17 years. A graduate of the London → Read More
A supreme court of crises?
In March 2017, columnist, Eric Teniola, began his article tracing the history of appointments to the Nigerian Supreme Court with the following lines: “risis is not new to the Supreme → Read More
Tunde Jonathan Mark: October 13, 1971 – October 21, 2022
A little under 10 years ago, I was exercised by an overwhelming curiosity to understand what made it possible for the Nigerian military to capture the country and how they → Read More
Concerning Buhari’s national honours 2022
“It is not titles that honour men, but men honour the titles,” Nicolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1531) At the beginning of August 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari constituted a nine-member → Read More
Ahead of #NigeriaDecides2023, INEC must address its credibility deficit
Seven days after he emerged on 26 March 2022 as the chair of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu resigned from the senate where he had since 2011 → Read More
Judicial independence at Independence Day
For all the talk of judicial independence, the reality of colonial and post-colonial Nigeria has been one long story of judicial subordination into subservience. Seven years into his presidency, Muhammadu → Read More
#NigeriaDecides2023 could be decided in places where no voting can occur
When it eventually occurred on February 23, 2019, Nigeria’s presidential election was not without suspense. North-east Nigeria, home to a counter-civilizational insurgency for over a decade, was a natural location → Read More