Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Because judges are part of government, acting on our behalf, we are entitled to require them to…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The traditional view is that judges speak most credibly and authoritatively through their judgments. It is at…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On this day 75 years ago, on 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu He failed to disclose that among the new appointments, one of the 23 new judges was his…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as guest of…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The courts no longer even pretend to tether their pronouncements to any sense of principle, precedent or…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1968, Stanislav Andrzejewski, the former Polish soldier and prisoner-of-war, who later founded the Sociology Department at…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In July 2013, Akunnia Obiefuna Benjamin Nwabueze, the extraordinary scholar, teacher, lawyer, winner of the Nigerian National Order…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu At their summit in Nassau, The Bahamas, in 1985, the Commonwealth Heads of State and Governments…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Godswill Obot Akpabio aspired to be president of Nigeria and ended up president all the same but…