Described by one scholar on its centenary as “perhaps the greatest historical movement of modern times,” the Berlin West Africa Conference began shortly after...
Phillip Adenekan Adekunle Ademola had everything it takes for an excellent career at the highest levels of a judicial career. He was the grand-son...
The unravelling of the regime of General Yakubu Gowon shortly after the end of Nigeria’s civil war in the decade of the 1970s began...
Renowned human rights lawyer and academic Professor Chidi Odinkalu has lambasted Nyesom Wike, the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and former...
“The partiality that inevitably affects judges has been noted in cases with a political flavour.” – David Pannick, KC, Judges, p. 44 (1987) ...
“A Judge shall avoid developing excessively close relationship with frequent litigants – such as government ministers or their officials, municipal officials, police prosecutors in...
The judicial career of Francis Chukwuma Abosi was supposed to last only seven years. In the event, he did 12 and may well...
In 1982, on the foothills of the road to Nigeria’s 1983 general elections, it was quite clear that the ruling National Party of Nigeria...
On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose from a publication issued two months earlier, on...
When he died at 80 in June 2008, Lamidi Aribiyi Adedibu was one of the best known political godfathers of his generation and...