Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “It was as if the football club wanted to regain through football what the Igbo ‘lost’ during…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Nothing is to be done which creates even a suspicion that there has been an improper interference…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Whatever happens, insecurity has already recorded its first electoral casualty. On the 3rd anniversary of its…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Numeracy is a Nigerian problem but electoral democracy is about counting numbers. Nigerians will vote to elect…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot through the ages.” (Stanley Baldwin, Queen’s Hall,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Ileka finished high school the youngest member of his graduating set and one of the brightest. He…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu  “In terms of talent and raw athletic ability, Cameroon were almost unquestionably the cream of the crop…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu To survive in Nigeria’s legal profession these days, practitioners and judges require skills in the martial arts;…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Politics in Nigeria is largely of the transhumant variety. It is not defined by any big ideas.…