In January 2014, a coalition of advocates, including Femia Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Jiti Ogunye and Tokunbo Mumuni, both senior lawyers; and I...
“Some judges have achieved a considerable degree of expertise….in displaying an immunity from contemporary knowledge and concerns.” David Pannick, KC, Judges, p. 32 (1987) Emmanuel Araka...
On 27 February, 2024, Nigeria’s National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja opened a continuing education course for judges. The opening featured an address by the...
In 1963, something unprecedented happened in the world of football: a goalkeeper, the legendary Lev Yashin of the then Soviet Union, was voted the...
Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu was a man with minimal needs and no ego. As president of the NBA and as Governor, he paid his bills. He disliked...
It is little wonder that the only people who can dispense any form of kindness towards the CJN and his “mob” of exponents in the jurisprudence...
A captured Temple of Justice: The alacrity with which parents and paramours in high judicial or political office in Nigeria suddenly discover these days that the...
The law of judicial back to the future: With 10 serving Justices, the Supreme Court has 11 vacancies waiting to be filled. Politicians have learnt to...
Godwin Emefiele’s overdue desserts. In a country where consequences follow malfeasance, Mr. Emefiele should have been unemployed and in prison. In Nigeria, he longed for the presidency....
Like the Chairman of INEC, “Barrister” Hudu Ari is from Bauchi State; and like the INEC chairman, he came from a supply pipeline that appears to...