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CHIDI ODINKALU

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a lawyer, is co-convener of Nigeria Mourns. He writes in his personal capacity.
October 19, 2025

How Bola Tinubu’s reckless pardons damage Nigeria’s national security

There is no way to diminish the damage that Lateef Fagbemi’s Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy has done to the presidential pardon.

President Bola Tinubu and Lateef Fagbemi
October 12, 2025

Senior advocates of no-consequence 

The most significant thing about the enforced withdrawal of Chief Ozekhome from the Call to Bar ceremonies last month is not that it occurred.

Mike Ozekhome
October 5, 2025

For Nigeria, 24 million reasons to fear the future?

Education should be a national security priority for all levels of government.

September 21, 2025

How Nigeria’s Supreme Court fosters constitutional outrage

The Supreme Court is still twiddling its elevated judicial thumbs while evidently divining the magical body language of the presidency.

Chief Justice Kekere-Ekun, Simi Fubara and Bola Tinubu
September 14, 2025

How politicians started buying Nigerian judges with luxury homes and cars

 In effect, the situation where judges are reduced to begging for suburban utility vehicles (SUVs) has all but eventuated in less than two decades.  

Wike giving cars to judges
September 7, 2025

Time to create welfare ministry for corrupt Nigerian judges

No one pretends to conceal the appearance of quid pro quo.

Nyesom Wike and Nigerian judges
August 31, 2025

Legal peril awaits Jonathan’s 2027 ambition

The former president should know that those importuning him for a tilt at the presidency in 2027 are clutching at withered straws.

Former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
August 24, 2025

Standing tall for Nigerian bar’s independence

Lack of independence is a congenital design flaw in the institutions of Nigeria’s legal profession.

Lawyers
August 10, 2025

Why Christian Chukwu’s legacy was larger than sport

The sporting conquests of Christian Chukwu’s Rangers International provided a foundation for the post-war rebuilding of Igbo dignity and humanity.

Christian Chukwu
July 27, 2025

As another Nigerian judge seeks to suffocate citizens’ voting rights

A decision by Oluseyi Owoeye of the Federal High Court marks the latest in an increasingly fevered judicial push to decapitate citizenship as the basis for government in Nigeria.

Chidi Odinkalu