Joyce Banda, Malawi’s fourth (and first female) president, was in Nigeria earlier this month as a guest of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra state...
In July 1977, the Organisation of African Unity adopted a Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa. It offered a definition of a mercenary to...
The story that emerges is defined by its clarity, candour and contradiction. Nwabueze narrates an almost charmed progress through challenging personal and professional difficulties and various...
Godswill Obot Akpabio aspired to be president of Nigeria and ended up president all the same but of the Senate. In that capacity, he presides over...
Around February 6, 2005, John Githongo, Permanent Secretary in Kenya’s Presidency responsible for Governance and Ethics, resigned after only two years in the role. As Michaela...
Election dispute resolution has cumulatively drained the judiciary in Nigeria of the intangible institutional assets of character, credibility, impartiality and independence. On April 3, 2003,...
When Ogbonnaya Ukeje died in Lagos two days after Christmas Day in 1981, Bode Rhodes-Vivour was a 30-year-old lawyer making his way up the rungs of...
On a Friday in July 2005, Bayo Ojo, a senior lawyer, quietly absconded from work in an office in Victoria Island, Lagos, from where he functioned...
When the presidential election petition process began in March 2023, Nigeria’s Supreme Court comprised 13 Justices. The court received a bumper injection of seven new justices...
Democracy is a very evocative notion. In the name of restoring or defending it, presidents have wielded bayonets, levied war, and executed coups. On August 10,...