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Three score and three years ago, a defining dispute erupted in the old Western Region of Nigeria over the scope and reach of constitutional conventions in determining or terminating the tenure of high-level political leadership. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which ultimately had to pronounce on the matter, described conventions in that case as “a
Courts are creatures of law. Everything about them, including what they can do (jurisdiction) and how they can do it (procedure) is prescribed and regulated by law. As such, it should never be said that what a court or judge cannot do does not exist. In Nigeria, however, some judges seem to glory in a
Nigeria has been blessed over the years with a rich supply of towering judicial intellect. The second Chief Justice of post-colonial Nigeria, Taslim Olawale Elias, for instance, was the country’s first law professor. In 1949, he became the first African to take a Ph.D. in law from the University of London. That was five years
By Paul Chimodo Across Nigeria, millions of children are growing up in conditions shaped by poverty, insecurity, poor education, and economic hardship. While political leaders continue to speak of the future, many Nigerian children are struggling to survive the present. That question is no longer asked only in classrooms, policy meetings, or newspaper editorials. It
By Paul Chimodo For decades, taxation in Nigeria has remained a complicated process for many citizens and businesses. Multiple identification numbers, inconsistent records, and bureaucratic bottlenecks have often made compliance stressful and confusing. Now, the Federal Government is introducing a unified Tax Identification system that could significantly transform how Nigerians are documented within the country’s
On the eve of his decision to nominate Oliver Wendell Holmes as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, that “the ablest lawyers are men whose past has naturally brought them into close relationship with the wealthiest and the most powerful.” What
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When the Economist described Nigeria over 18 years ago as a “democracy by court order”, it ventured into prophetic journalism. In the period since then, partisan politicians have become comfortable with playing second fiddle to judges, a sizeable number of whom have emerged as the most avid tribe of belligerents in the mortal
By Paul Chimodo Remember the tech headlines of 2023? Amid the rise of large language models like GPT-4 and Claude, the world was told that “prompt engineering” could be one of the hottest jobs of the decade. A career where crafting the right AI instructions might earn you six-figure salaries without needing deep programming skills.
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 knowledgeable trial judges to adorn the Nigerian judiciary. His reputation
Twenty-three days after the transmission by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the upper chamber of Nigeria’s National Assembly, better known as the Senate, held public hearings on 18 December 2025 to consider the Legal Practitioners Bill. At this pace, the bill will be certain to become law well before the middle of 2026. The journey to
