Japa: The verb that became a noun
As Nigeria prepares for a seminal vote in 2023, one surprise is that Japa is not getting more attention as a political...
Qatar 2022 miscellaneous
Despite the controversies over sex and alcohol, Qatar 2022 is also the most profitable World Cup in history. Much of the controversy...
Counting the kidnapped and the killed among Nigeria’s judges and lawyers
Emboldened by the absence of accountability, these attacks on judges and lawyers would grow in both frequency and brazenness.
Kill all the lawyers
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
"The first...
A season of political malapropisms
In the middle of high political season, we confront a judicial malapropism with slow burning reverberations of high political salience. And we...
Mohammed Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi, January 24, 1971 – November 20, 2022
Among his pearls of wisdom, Mohammed Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi always insisted that “there is nothing like sudden death…. Death can come anytime...
Detribalised Nigerian does not exist; It never did
In reality, the expression “detribalised” is worse than a patronizing piece of colonial nonsense. It begins from a conceptual error that “tribal”...
Saving the Supreme Court from crises
Historically, mortality may be relatively high among appointees to Nigeria’s Supreme Court but it has never affected any CJN. This is surprising...
Still on the crises in Nigeria’s Supreme Court
As long as the dockets of the Supreme Court remain unmanageable, with the court increasingly becoming a forum for the settlement almost...
A Supreme Court of crises?
The Economist in 2008 famously described Nigeria as a democracy by court order. In the pecking order of the courts, the Supreme...
