Monday, November 11, 2024

CHIDI ODINKALU

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a lawyer, is co-convener of Nigeria Mourns. He writes in his personal capacity.
February 25, 2024

Chidi Odinkalu: Can Supreme Court close public trust deficit with its full bench?

 In public trust and humane decision-making, Nigeria’s Supreme Court currently has a lot of work to do.

Nigeria Supreme Court Justices (Credit: NJC)
December 17, 2023

Justice Waziri’s lavish wedding and judicial misadventure in political party structure 

Regular judicial duties and election petition season conspired to keep his lordship away from home.

Justice Abdul-Azeez Waziri
December 3, 2023

Who will tell CJN Ariwoola he doesn’t deserve Nigerians’ trust and confidence?

Statistics on case decisions reeled out by the chief justice showed the Supreme Court has become captured by politicians.

CJN Ariwoola
November 26, 2023

Chidi Odinkalu: How Malawi citizens rescued country’s ‘award-winning’ judiciary from political chokehold

Nigerians interested in changing their country’s politicised, corrupt judiciary could profit from a study of how Malawians did it.

November 20, 2023

How Nigeria’s mercenary judges mock rule of law

When judges choose to immerse themselves in the theatre of power politics, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that elements of mercenarism are involved.

A composite photo of Haruna Tsamani and Inyang Okoro
November 12, 2023

As kleptocracy of buying and selling electoral victory grips Nigerian courts

According to Nigerian courts, you can undertake an election without candidates, administer an election without INEC, and produce winners without votes.

A composite photo of Haruna Tsamani and Inyang Okoro
November 5, 2023

The life, loves and adventures of Obiefuna BenjaminNwabueze

He was a clerk in a commercial firm, a federal civil servant-telegraphist, a high school teacher, a law professor, and an executive director-legal adviser in a commercial bank.

Ben Nwabueze
October 29, 2023

How favourable judgements are engineered in African courts

In the past, judicial greatness was calibrated in the currency of jurisprudence.

John Okoro, Bola Tinubu and Haruna Tsamani
October 22, 2023

How arrogance, lawlessness define Godswill Akpabio’s Senate leadership

Akpabio’s rhetoric of running an uncommon Senate has now disintegrated into a reality of uncommon lawlessness.

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio [Photo: TopeBrown]