Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

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…

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…