*By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu* Abdul Leigh Balogun became a judge of the High Court of Lagos State in 1976. In a career as a trial judge spanning 17 years and three different decades, the man better known as A.L.A.L Balogun earned a deserved reputation as one of the most knowledgeableContinue Reading
*By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu* *If you wanna live* *- treat me good* *If you wanna live, live* *I beg you, treat me good* *I’m like a walking razor* *Don’t you watch my size* *I’m dangerous…,* *I’m like a walking razor* *Don’t you watch my size* *I’m dangerous, dangerous*Continue Reading
*By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu* *“I had discovered since my appointment as a High Court judge that most of the politicians in Nigeria and, indeed, in other developing countries only pay lip-service to the independence of the judiciary…. It pays in the end for a judge, even at the risk ofContinue Reading
By Abdul Mahmud One month ago, in Abuja, a small circle of friends, literary enthusiasts, human rights activists, politicians, public intellectuals and thinkers gathered to listen to Chidi Odinkalu read from his latest offering, The Selectorate: When Judges Topple the People. It was a private reading, but the ideasContinue Reading
Justice John Tsoho, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC), on Sunday, announced the redeployment of some judges. Justice Tsoho, in a statement by FHC’s Director of Information, Dr Catherine Christopher, directed Justice M. G. Umar from Enugu Judicial Division to take over cases earlier presided overContinue Reading
*By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu FLOWERBUDNEWS: When he was a Justice the Court of Appeal in the Port Harcourt Division, during the tenure of Mohammed Bello as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) 1987-1995. Alloysius Katsina-Alu was the subject of allegations of serious misconduct which ended up before the AdvisoryContinue Reading
