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Chidi Odinkalu

September 11, 2025

Why Jonathan won’t contest, whatever the courts say

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Labour Party’s presidential flag bearer in the last election, Peter Obi, are perhaps the two most serious contenders.

Goodluck Jonathan in PDP dress
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
July 14, 2025

Chidi Odinkalu’s ‘The Selectorate’ highlights Nigerians’ tolerance of rogue judges

It is a book about us: our passivity, our complicity, and our silence.

Chidi Odinkalu's new book 'The Selectorate'
July 14, 2025

Buhari’s body will be returned to Nigeria as cargo consignment, Chidi Odinkalu reminds politicians

Mr Odinkalu further reflected on how the remains of scores of Shiites massacred during the reign of Mr Buhari were conveyed in trucks.

Coffin draped in green-white-green flag at airport
June 13, 2025

Justice John Okoro, accused by SSS of taking bribes, spotted loitering Benin hotel as Edo election dispute reaches Nigerian Supreme Court

Mr Okoro has been at the centre of public scrutiny since he was arrested alongside other prominent judicial officials.

John Inyang Okoro
March 11, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: How Neda Imasuen fled U.S. after FBI linked him to $25 million bank fraud, returned to Nigeria to lead Senate ethics committee

Neda Bernards Imasuen’s unsavoury history updates the growing list of individuals with tainted pasts occupying high-ranking government positions in Nigeria.

Neda Imasuen and FBI
February 9, 2025

Why breaking Supreme Court of Nigeria into five divisions is misguided

The most charitable anyone can be about this bill is that it is hare-brained.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria
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
April 12, 2024

Angry judge slams maximum sentence on gender activist Bobrisky in naira abuse case

Controversial Nigerian crossdresser Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, has been sentenced to six months in prison without an option of a fine. 

Bobrisky
April 5, 2024

EFCC, Odinkalu spar over controversial arrest of cross-dresser Bobrisky

The EFCC had a scathing retort to Mr Odinkalu’s statement, which the operatives described as “reckless” and “rascally.”

Chidi Odinkalu, Bobrisky and Ola Olukoyede