Tag: nigerian politics

Amupitan and the Ruse of Law By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu ​In Nigeria, every act of political grubbiness sooner or later ...

In Nigeria, A Judge is Not Above or Beyond Investigation By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Judge not, that you be not ...

*A Public Memo By Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili* The wisest and free advice that the Nigerian Senate, as well as the ...

In Nigerian politics, ideas often travel faster than the hard arithmetic of power, and few recent propositions illustrate this disjunction ...

This year, 2026, marks approximately 56 years since the Biafra/Nigeria fratricidal war officially ended in 1970. The scars of that ...

“All judges are politicians whether they know it or not.” Enrique Petracchi, former Chief Justice of Argentina, (2002). ​Among lawyers ...

​In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs ...

The issue of political marginalization in Nigeria often resurfaces in conversations about the Southeast. Yet, beyond the presidency, it becomes ...

​In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition ...

Seven years ago, in 2018, my good friend and former Dean of Law at the University of Ghana at Legon, ...