This past week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) adopted a new treaty Relating...
It is widely said that Nigerian judges are over-worked and grossly underpaid. Senior lawyers have described the conditions of service of judges in the country...
In 1963, something unprecedented happened in the world of football: a goalkeeper, the legendary Lev Yashin of the then Soviet Union, was voted the European Footballer...
Most people do not know or remember that strictly speaking, there were and remain no official results for Nigeria’s 2007 presidential election. Organized by the...
Nearly one year after the country began voting in February last year, Nigeria’s Supreme Court is still casting the final votes in the 2023 elections. It...
In the last week of August 2002, Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State in south-west Nigeria, hosted the annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association...
Because judges are part of government, acting on our behalf, we are entitled to require them to abandon their priesthood and to present their activities...
Supreme courts are places where lawyers and judges regularly encounter one another. On November 17, 2023, one of such encounters occurred, not in the regular halls...
On this day 75 years ago, on December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “as a...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court held a special session on 27 November to formally usher in a new legal year. It provide an occasion for a retrospective on...