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Trouble in the House of Ujamaa: Suluhu’s Crackdown, Tanzania’s Uprising

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s decision to turn to abduction, atrocity, and massacre now threatens the political pre-eminence of Chama...

Op-Ed: Tinubu Has a Police Palaver By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

When Olusegun Obasanjo returned as the president of Nigeria in May 1999, according to Mohammed Dikko (MD) Yusuf, a...

Op-Ed: On Whose Mandate Do Judges Stand? By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“I had discovered since my appointment as a High Court judge that most of the politicians in Nigeria and,...

Op-Ed: Forty-Five Days that Changed Elections in Africa? By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

An unlikely coincidence of ballots in a forty-five day period from the middle of September to the end of...

James Omotosho: A Judge and His À La Carte Law By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

One month after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu proclaimed a state of emergency over Rivers State last March, on 18...

Independent and Unaccountable: A New Code for Nigeria’s Judiciary By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Among the doctrines that underpin the legal process in Nigeria, few are as profound and pervasive as judicial independence,...

Ese Oruru: The Inspiring Triumph of a Survivor By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In April 2020, then governor of Kano State in north-west Nigeria, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, took time off his expensive...

Pardon Me?! By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the...

Op-Ed: Senior Advocates of No-Consequence (SANs) By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The ritual of the “Call to Bar” is the formal ceremony for the admission of new entrants into Nigeria’s...

Op-Ed: For Nigeria, 24 Million Reasons to Fear the Future? By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

When Olusegun Obasanjo took over in the middle of 1976 from the slain Murtala Mohammed as Nigeria’s military Head...

Supreme Enablers; Constitutional Outrage By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“The judiciary have a wide scope for making political decisions.” J.A.G. Griffiths, “Constitutional and Administrative Law’ in Peter Archer &...

Nigeria: How Politicians Started Dashing Cars and Houses to Judges By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable...