Opinion

Why Nigeria’s election petition system is unconstitutional, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

By Editor 12/07/2025 0

In Nigeria where the decision on whom to confer the mandate to rule has been relocated by fiat of the Supreme Court from the ballot box to the court room, citizens are currently denied standing to participate in disputes involving the identity or determination of the person or party on whom they have conferred that mandate.Continue Reading

Opinion

The age of the judicial impostor in Nigeria must end, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

By Editor 06/07/2025 0

Imo and Yobe States have had a particularly hard time of judges messing about with their age. In Yobe State, two Grand Khadis in succession have suffered the indignity of being caught age racketeering. In 2020, the National Judicial Council, (NJC), found that over two instalments of falsification, Grand Khadi Shu’aibu Talba reduced his age by four years from 1955 to 1959.Continue Reading

Opinion

Joseph Otteh: The man who changed human rights enforcement in Nigeria, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

By Editor 22/06/2025 0

As a lawyer, Joe worried about two intractable and inter-related problems: delay in justice delivery and judicial performance. His intellect and temperament were well suited to high judicial service.Continue Reading

Opinion

Mohammed Lawal Uwais, 12 June 1936 – 6 June 2025; By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

By Editor 15/06/2025 0

The son of a railway worker from Zaria, Abdullahi Uwaisu and his wife, Hajara, Mohammed Lawal Uwais was bereaved of his biological father at the age of six in December 1942. When his mother remarried two years later to headteacher, Mohammed Jumare, Mohammed Uwais acquired a step-father who inspired his educational pursuits under the watchful eyes of a doting mother.Continue Reading