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  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Josiah Majebi is the fifth chief judge of Kogi State (in North-Central Nigeria) in four years and the fourth to...

  By Chidi Odinkalu On February 27, 2024, Nigeria’s National Judicial Institute, NJI, in Abuja opened a continuing education course for ju...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On July 17, 2012, Peter Obi, then Governor of Anambra State, swore in five new commissioners. One of them was C...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On December 31, 1983, Sani Abacha, then an unknown brigadier in the Nigerian Army, went on radio to announce th...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Evidence of the scope of the mess created by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under t...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu There are two countries whose well-being and stability reach nearly every part of Africa. One is the Democrat...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu This week, the opening salvo will be fired to signal the onset of the final round of voting in Nigeria’s elec...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In June 2020, Malawians  took to the streets and the judges joined to resist  the attempt by President Peter Mu...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” – William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 ...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu At the beginning of August 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari constituted a nine-member National Honours Nominati...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The electoral landslide of President Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1983 unfolded in inst...

  By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu This past week, education came to a halt in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT. It began with the ...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Cordelia Ego Ejiofor died like no one should, clobbered to death by her employer.  Her dead body was never fo...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Colonial rule in Nigeria was conducted through Indirect Rule. It was a system of “native administration” patent...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “She said he made love to her like an intellectual. In the political jargon of those days, the word ‘intellec...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 6 November, 2021, Anambra State, at 4,844 km² the second smallest state by landmass in Nigeria – Lagos Sta...

  By   Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Kenechukwu (Ken) Nnamani, trustee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and leader of the party in Sou...

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu   President Buhari’s much-advertised fight against corruption has degenerated into a demolition derby. As happe...