Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The outcome was never in doubt. The politicians got the assurances they wanted that they would…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When Major-General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari on the last day…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Around 26 May 2020, the Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced that Raphael Yanyi,…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Seven years after his emergence as Nigeria’s military Head of State, in the third quarter of 1974,…
By Ernest Ojukwu, SAN; Sam Erugo, SAN; Chidi Anselm Odinkalu; & Mbasekei Martin Obono Amid the greatest crisis of judicial…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Rights are only worth having if they are occasionally boisterous, often inconvenient and frequently tiresome.” Inigo Bing,…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu It is beyond ironic that rights of protest secured with the heroic sacrifices of Nigerians under colonial…