Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “I had discovered since my appointment as a High Court judge that most of the politicians in…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu An unlikely coincidence of ballots in a forty-five day period from the middle of September to…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu This was not the first time that James Omotosho would portray himself as a fully subscribed,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Among the doctrines that underpin the legal process in Nigeria, few are as profound and pervasive…

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…