“Fools at the top would cause damage to any system not to talk of the fragile institutions of a fledgling democracy.” – Charles Archibong, A...
Senior Nigerian public officers are notoriously parsimonious with their recall once out of office. From among their club memoirs are the unusual. In a country...
The last Chief Judge of Kogi State who attempted to hold that office with dignity and independence, Nasir Ajanah, paid with his life, un-mourned and exiled...
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 the pocket...
On 26 December 1991, Algerians voted in the first round of parliamentary elections. Over 40 parties fielded candidates. As returns started coming through, it became clear...
“Some judges have achieved a considerable degree of expertise….in displaying an immunity from contemporary knowledge and concerns.” David Pannick, KC, Judges, p. 32 (1987)...
22.5 kilometres in south-west of Sokoto, there used to exist a community called Satiru. In March 1906, it was extinguished from the face of the...
On February 27, 2024, Nigeria’s National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja opened a continuing education course for judges. The opening featured an address by the...
On 15 October, 1965, as political uncertainty and violence raged in Western Nigeria, Ladoke Akintola, the regional Premier, was due to deliver a primetime radio broadcast...
As Nigerians prepared for the holiday season to end 2023, the National Assembly in Abuja on 21 December hurriedly undertook and voted through the confirmation...