Monday, July 13, 2026

CHIDI ODINKALU

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a lawyer, is co-convener of Nigeria Mourns. He writes in his personal capacity.
December 8, 2024
Afe Babalola, Dele Farotimi
November 24, 2024

140 years on, ruinous legacies of Berlin West Africa Conference endure

The Berlin Conference was an event whose consequences for Africa and international law were seminal but not always constructive.

Berlin Conference participants
November 10, 2024

Nigerian judges are normalising human rights abuses under Bola Tinubu

A regime committed to capturing all levers of power and arresting the machinery of constitutional guardrails has been enabled by a complicit judiciary.

Kekere-Ekun and Tinubu
October 27, 2024

Wiked judges and Nyesomised courts

This was the latest chapter in Nyesom Wike’s durable track record as Nigeria’s most prolific judicial benefactor.

Nyesom Wike and CJN Kekere-Ekun
October 20, 2024

CJN Kekere-Ekun should join efforts to remove Imo Chief Judge Theresa Chikeka over age falsification 

The CJN must realise that no one will take her seriously if she proves unwilling to act to get rid of someone who desecrates the office first occupied by Chukwudifu Oputa in 1976.

Theresa Chikeka
October 6, 2024
September 29, 2024

To cement good legacy, CJN Kekere-Ekun must avoid Kayode Ariwoola’s ethical pitfalls

Succession in an elective system is not supposed to replicate the predictability of monarchical entitlement.

CJN Kudirat Kekere-Ekun and and former CJN Kayode Ariwoola
August 25, 2024

Odinkalu, Erugo, et al: How CJN Kekere-Ekun can restore credibility, probity to Nigerian judiciary

These measures can reverse inefficiencies, retrench renegades, and reposition the judiciary as an institution fit for the changing landscape of a complex political economy.

Kudirat Kekere-Ekun
August 18, 2024

Kayode Ariwoola’s legacy of judicial corruption, nepotism will haunt Supreme Court for decades

A look at a career marred by white-collar savagery as Olukayode Ariwoola prepares his retirement after years at the top of the Nigerian judiciary.

CJN Ariwoola
April 28, 2024

Ex-AGF Bello Adoke’s ‘Burden of Service’ memoir riddled with murky narratives

It is difficult to escape the conclusion that in this part of the book, at least, Adoke was – to put it rather mildly — less than economical with the truth.

Bello Adoke