Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu As Nigerians prepared for the holiday season to end 2023, the National Assembly in Abuja on 21…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu It is widely said that Nigerian judges are over-worked and grossly underpaid. Senior lawyers have described…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu There is hardly any jurisdiction in the common law world in which a man with his…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In 1963, something unprecedented happened in the world of football: a goalkeeper, the legendary Lev Yashin of…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Most people do not know or remember that, strictly speaking, there were and remain no official results…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The ruin caused and supervised by this President of the Court of Appeal is incalculable. The legislators whose…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu It is impossible to miss the contrast between the courage that defined Aketi’s life and…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In the last week of August 2002, Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State in South-West Nigeria, hosted…

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…