Lead Photo: A cross section of participants at the festival with Prof. Wole Soyinka (4th left, first row) and standing next to him, Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi. “The festival nurtures …
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
So, to increase the quantity of energy supply that it guarantees to the Band A customers, NERC has to ensure reduction in what is transmitted to those at the bottom …
*Under Moussa Faki Mahamat, the AU increasingly acts neither African nor like a Union. On New Year’s Day in 1991, 81-year-old Siad Barre, Somalia’s third (and last) president, fled the capital city, …
‘Across the continent, elections are in disrepute and the interminable president is back in vogue… By the turn of the millennium, military rule in Africa had rightly passed its sell-by …
Ethnic profiling and accompanying violence of the sort that characterized these elections and necessitated Mr. Osewa’s faux apologia is not a fate for Nigeria. It is a century-old choice. ON …
*In 2023, Nigeria’s judges can sculpt a different narrative Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola THIS week, the opening salvo will be fired to signal the onset of …
‘The design seems clear: by enabling a tyranny of artisanal manipulation, he configures an electoral landscape favourable to the party that controls the official mechanisms of coercion and the state …
‘Judicial immersion in political disputes is hazardous and judges called upon to do it have a clear choice to either resist importunations that compromise their authority or canoodle with the …
Emboldened by the absence of accountability, these attacks on judges and lawyers would grow in both frequency and brazenness. By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu To survive in Nigeria’s legal profession these …
*No one could possibly accuse Kukah of being an “ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound.” ‘As he turns 70 on 31 August, it is fair to say Bishop Kukah has …