Lead Photo: A cross section of participants at the festival with Prof. Wole Soyinka (4th left, first row) and standing next to him, Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi. “The festival nurtures …
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
- Opinion
New electricity tariff, EFCC, and further impoverishing Nigerian people
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 7 minutes readSo, to increase the quantity of energy supply that it guarantees to the Band A customers, NERC has to ensure reduction in what is transmitted to those at the bottom …
*Under Moussa Faki Mahamat, the AU increasingly acts neither African nor like a Union. On New Year’s Day in 1991, 81-year-old Siad Barre, Somalia’s third (and last) president, fled the capital city, …
‘Across the continent, elections are in disrepute and the interminable president is back in vogue… By the turn of the millennium, military rule in Africa had rightly passed its sell-by …
Ethnic profiling and accompanying violence of the sort that characterized these elections and necessitated Mr. Osewa’s faux apologia is not a fate for Nigeria. It is a century-old choice. ON …
*In 2023, Nigeria’s judges can sculpt a different narrative Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola THIS week, the opening salvo will be fired to signal the onset of …
‘The design seems clear: by enabling a tyranny of artisanal manipulation, he configures an electoral landscape favourable to the party that controls the official mechanisms of coercion and the state …
‘Judicial immersion in political disputes is hazardous and judges called upon to do it have a clear choice to either resist importunations that compromise their authority or canoodle with the …
- Opinion
Counting the kidnapped and the killed among Nigeria’s judges and lawyers
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 7 minutes readEmboldened by the absence of accountability, these attacks on judges and lawyers would grow in both frequency and brazenness. By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu To survive in Nigeria’s legal profession these …
*No one could possibly accuse Kukah of being an “ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound.” ‘As he turns 70 on 31 August, it is fair to say Bishop Kukah has …