Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Nearly 10 years ago, in September 2012, the then president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Okey…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Democratic politics is by far the most brutal competitive sport invented. Unlike other sports where the…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Democracy is a journey and the quality of the ride depends on what we collectively put into…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu This past week education came to a halt in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It began…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The story is told of a former governor of a state in North-Central Nigeria who approached…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 28 November, 1988, was a Monday. In Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), a Constituent Assembly inaugurated…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Aloysius Iyorgher Katsina-Alu didn’t set out to be a lawyer or a judge. His first love was…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The want of bread is terrible”- Arthur Young, (1789) On Monday, 27 June 2022, General Muhammadu Buhari…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When I first met Elechi Larry Igwe early in 1991, he was safely ensconced in the bowels of…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Three days before Nigeria voted in the presidential election in 2019, on Wednesday, 20 February, a little…