Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

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…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 6 December 1977, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s military Head of State, received a group of young…

By Abdul Mahmud One month ago, in Abuja, a small circle of friends, literary enthusiasts, human rights activists, politicians, public intellectuals…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu This judgment by Oluseyi Owoeye of the Federal High Court is the latest in an increasingly…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu   “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The mind grows old, no less than the body.” Aristotle, The Politics, Book II, Ch. 9, 146…