Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

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.…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Everyone who burglarises an election leaves a massive trail but they all rely on the security services,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1989, academics, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin published to great acclaim their study…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Over the past fortnight, this column has addressed the multiple dimensions of the crises of attrition, retention,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1993, Yekini Olayiwola Adio had…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In March 2017, columnist, Eric Teniola, began his article tracing the history of appointments to the Nigerian…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu A little under ten years ago, I was exercised by an overwhelming curiosity to understand what…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “It is not titles that honor men, but men honor the titles.” Nicolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1531)…