On the evening of 5 April 2012, the prime-time bulletin on the television news of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), announced to the country that the...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern...
The political control of the resources of the territory known as Rivers State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been a site of curious jurisprudence since the...
“A regime committed to capturing all levers of power and arresting the machinery of constitutional guardrails has succeeded beyond its wildest imagining, enabled - it must be acknowledged - by a complicit judiciary no longer troubled by any inkling of its own constitutional standing or obligations.”
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 as a...
On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose from a publication issued two months earlier by a newspaper...
When he died at 80 in June 2008, Lamidi Aribiyi Adedibu was one of the best-known political godfathers of his generation and certainly one of the...
When Major-General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the elected civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari on the last day of 1983, he inherited an economy in a mess...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Sorry even years after his emergence as Nigeria’s military Head of State, in the third quarter of 1974, General Yakubu Gowon placed a telephone call to...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week-old decision to judicially install Hope Uzodinma as the...
