In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which...
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...
In 1981, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was already 16 years at the Nigerian Bar and one of its brightest stars. Already a breakout litigator, Gani had...
Abdul Oroh is an unlikely avatar of the Nigerian dream. An Afenmai from Ivbiaro in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State in the...
On 6 December 1977, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s military Head of State, received a group of young men from the east who had come to present...
One month ago, in Abuja, a small circle of friends, literary enthusiasts, human rights activists, politicians, public intellectuals and thinkers gathered to listen to...
Three different decisions of the highest court in the country over the past two decades illustrate how the judicial conspiracy against popular sovereignty in Nigeria...
“The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which...
“The mind grows old, no less than the body.” Aristotle, The Politics, Book II, Ch. 9, 146 (Penguin Classics, 1981) A little over...
“On matters of security, the bulk (sic) stops at the President’s table.” Bola Ahmed Tinubu April 2014 On 26 January 2009, the Mamman Bello...