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Amupitan and the Ruse of Law
Apr 4, 2026
Amupitan and the Ruse of Law By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In Nigeria, every act of political grubbiness sooner or later ends up before the courts. The…
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Amupitan and the Ruse of Law
Amupitan and the Ruse of Law By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In Nigeria, every act of political grubbiness sooner or later ends up before the…
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A Back to the Future Moment for the Nigerian Bar Association
Mar 15, 2026
A Back to the Future Moment for the Nigerian Bar Association By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When the then Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Babangida – a…
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In the House of ‘My Lord’, There are Judgments
Feb 1, 2026
Abdul Leigh Balogun became a judge of the High Court of Lagos State in 1976. In a career as a trial judge spanning 17 years and…
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Supreme Enablers; Constitutional Outrage
Sep 21, 2025
“The judiciary have a wide scope for making political decisions.” J.A.G. Griffiths, “Constitutional and Administrative Law’ in Peter Archer & Andrew Martin (Eds), More Law Reform…
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Nigeria: How Politicians Started Dashing Cars and Houses to Judges
Sep 14, 2025
In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which he…
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Crooked judges and NJC’s complicit scandal
May 4, 2025
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When he was a justice the court of appeal in the Port Harcourt dvision, during the tenure of Mohammed Bello as chief…