Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Some judges have achieved a considerable degree of expertise….in displaying an immunity from contemporary knowledge and concerns.”…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 22.5 kilometres south-west of Sokoto, there used to exist a community called Satiru. In March 1906,…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 27 February, 2024, Nigeria’s National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja opened a continuing education course for…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 15 October, 1965, as political uncertainty and violence raged in Western Nigeria, Ladoke Akintola, the regional…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On Sunday, 24 February 2024, the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu As Nigerians prepared for the holiday season to end 2023, the National Assembly in Abuja on 21…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu It is widely said that Nigerian judges are over-worked and grossly underpaid. Senior lawyers have described…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu There is hardly any jurisdiction in the common law world in which a man with his…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1963, something unprecedented happened in the world of football: a goalkeeper, the legendary Lev Yashin of…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Most people do not know or remember that, strictly speaking, there were and remain no official results…