Tag: Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Before the Supreme Court of Nigeria becomes a commune of Bantustans,...
In 1954, Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice...
Tinubu’s taxing times, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
A mere four years after emerging from a civil war, in 1974, Nigeria was at the beginning of an oil boom. Then, as today,...
In the Matter of Dele Farotimi before the Star Chamber, By...
Paul Anyebe was a judge of the High Court of Benue State in north-central Nigeria who had a young son with sticky fingers and...
Nigeria’s Federal High Court: A scandalised court, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose from a publication issued two months earlier, on...
Yahaya Bello and a complicit judiciary, 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 exist almost entirely in...
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