Browsing: Chidi Odinkalu

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When the presidential election petition process began in March 2023, Nigeria’s Supreme Court comprised 13 Justices.…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The focus on what appears to be a contagion theory of coups in Africa misses the clear…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Towards the end of 2022, as his country began preparations towards general elections scheduled to take place…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Democracy is a very evocative notion. In the name of restoring or defending it, presidents have…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu One hundred and sixty-one days after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) picked a winner in the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On January 1, 2012, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan announced a decision to remove the…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In July 2013, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then Egypt’s army chief, sacked his benefactor and Egypt’s first…

Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia All is now set for the July edition of the Ikengaonline monthly town-hall meeting today, Thursday July…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Nigeria’s return to civil rule has proved to be far more trying than many had hoped. Of…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 13 January 1970, Olusegun Obasanjo, army colonel and General Officer Commanding (GOC) the Third Marine…