Wednesday, July 15, 2026

CHIDI ODINKALU

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a lawyer, is co-convener of Nigeria Mourns. He writes in his personal capacity.
December 4, 2022

A season of political malapropisms

In the middle of high political season, we confront a judicial malapropism with slow-burning reverberations of high political salience.

Justice Olukayode Ariwoola
November 27, 2022

Tribute to Mohammed Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi, January 24, 1971–November 20, 2022

A deeply devout man, Mohammed was equally uncompromising in his commitment to diversity.

Mohammed Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi
November 20, 2022

Detribalised Nigerian does not exist. It never did

The Nigerian elite create the impression that the tribe is like a pigment that you can cure with ejaculations from a tube of anthropological bleaching cream.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar
November 8, 2022

Protracted health crises at Nigerian Supreme Court (Part Deux)

It may be impossible to recruit people to the Supreme Court whose desire is to ensure a more effective administration of accessible justice.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria
October 30, 2022

Protracted health crises at Nigerian Supreme Court

Any crisis afflicting the Supreme Court in the Nigerian judiciary sooner or later occasions system-wide contagion.

Supreme Court Judges
October 23, 2022

Tribute to Tunde Jonathan Mark, October 13, 1971–October 21, 2022

The son of a father whose life is steeped in the idea of power, Tunde preferred to focus on the power of ideas.

Tunde Mark
October 16, 2022

Concerning Buhari’s national honours 2022

Does conferring national honours on serving public officers violate the Nigerian Constitution? President Buhari clearly thinks not.

October 9, 2022

INEC must address its credibility deficit before 2023 

When the electoral umpire suffers credibility deficit, usually it also costs lives.

INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu
October 2, 2022

Judicial independence 62 years after Nigeria’s independence

The reality of colonial and post-colonial Nigeria has been one long story of judicial subordination into subservience.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria
September 18, 2022

Can Nigeria’s INEC organise a credible national election?

INEC officials who enabled a massive rigging of voters’ register will happily enable worse in an election.

Mahmood Yakub