Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In April 2020, then governor of Kano State in north-west Nigeria, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, took time…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The ritual of the “Call to Bar” is the formal ceremony for the admission of new…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When Olusegun Obasanjo took over in the middle of 1976 from the slain Murtala Mohammed as…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The judiciary have a wide scope for making political decisions.” J.A.G. Griffiths, “Constitutional and Administrative Law’…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In other words, before judges are appointed, the NJC requires proof from the head of the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu At the Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Enugu at the end of last…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu At that point of no return, an innocuous looking legal challenge will materialize questioning GEJ’s eligibility to…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1981, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was already 16 years at the Nigerian Bar and one of…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Abdul Oroh is an unlikely avatar of the Nigerian dream. An Afenmai from Ivbiaro in Owan…