‘When UACN’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Ernest Shonekan, assumed office as the Chief Executive of Nigeria in August, 1993, installed by soldiers, it was a remarkable fusion of the interests …
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
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Chukwuma Soludo and the challenge of managing expectations
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 9 minutes read‘Soludo has made it seem sexy to be called an intellectual. If he’s not a blow-out success, the same people who now adore him will be the first to cavil …
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Reclaiming Nigeria’s Judiciary: An inconvenient manifesto
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 9 minutes read‘No judicial system can afford this kind of blight. On 25 January, the NBA, the NJC and the Justice Research Institute (JRI) will be hosting a leadership summit in Abuja …
“If there is not a special place in hell for politically corrupt judges, there should at least be a Magnitsky list.” Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Bad People and How to be …
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Nigeria’s courts of unequal injustice and curious appointments
by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu 7 minutes read‘A significant number of judicial appointments have increasingly become tainted by tendencies of dynastification, commodification, or what someone recently described as “genitalization”, trends which assume that judicial temperament can be …
“If your country is torn apart by war; if the economy is in crisis and if health-care is non-existent, you are likely to be miserable.” – Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: …