“So, you are going to have two levels of resistance – one from the occupant of the office himself but more also from the people around him who don’t have interest in seeing that happen. So, the redesign of Nigeria from the centre is going to be very difficult.”
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“The Commission would not hesitate to take appropriate legal actions against such uncouth commentaries against its lawful mandate by anyone.”
A law professor and former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, has said that the Court of Appeal’s reported move to correct the Certified True Copy of its judgment on Kano State governorship election, is not within the ambit of Slip Rule.
ASHENEWS reports that one of Nigeria’s legal luminary, Chidi Odinkalu, on his X handle @ChidiOdinkalu on Sunday, reacted to the address by the President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) on the issue of the IT contact.
Towards the end of 2022, as his country began preparations towards general elections scheduled to take place in the penultimate week of August 2023, Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, contracted an unusual bout of generosity denominated in United States Dollars. First, he disbursed US$500,000 to his ministers, comprising twenty cabinet ministers, thirteen deputy ministers, and nine provincial ministers supposedly as housing loans. Next, he doled out US$350,000 to directors of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). The 270 Members of parliament – both elected and nominated – each received $40,000.
Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Activists, Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, has resigned as a member of the Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA).
The office of Attorney-General of the Federation is the only ministerial office or department created directly by Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution.…
“Where the state is too weak to be dangerous, non-state actors might become too strong.” – Robert Cooper, The Breaking…
Gladys Ukeje was the daughter of Lazarus Ogbonnaya Ukeje, who died in Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, in December…