By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu – Abdul Leigh Balogun became a judge of the High Court of Lagos State in 1976. In a career as a trial judge spanning 17 years and three different decades, the man b...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu – “I had discovered since my appointment as a High Court judge that most of the politicians in Nigeria and, indeed, in other developing countries only pay lip-service to...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu One month after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu proclaimed a state of emergency over Rivers State last March, on 18th April 2025, Barr. Nyesom Wike, former Rivers S...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was the military ruler of Nigeria. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which he promised to hand ...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When the House of Lords, as the upper chamber of the UK Parliament is called, debated the Courts Bill introduced by the government of Edward Heath in December 1970, Lord Hails...
