Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1991, Nigeria was in the full throes of the interminable transition to civil rule programme of…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu A mere four years after emerging from a civil war, in 1974, Nigeria was at the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Paul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in North-Central Nigeria who had…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu & Chepkorir Sambu Described by one scholar on its centenary as “perhaps the greatest historical movement of modern…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Honourable Justice Emmanuel Obioma Ogwuegbu was part of a generation in which judging was a deservedly elevated…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu It was impossible not to see that this case did not involve any application of law.…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The partiality that inevitably affects judges has been noted in cases with a political flavour.” David Pannick,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “A Judge shall avoid developing excessively close relationship with frequent litigants – such as government ministers or…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The judicial career of Francis Chukwuma Abosi was supposed to last only seven years. In the event,…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 37 years later, the Supreme Court relied on numbers confectioned by a rogue Commissioner of Police…