COLUMNS

The game is on presently and politicians are busy with their usual schemes for the attainment of power. Ordinarily, we should not be expending time and energy discussing where the next President of Nigeria comes from but unfortunately, the leadership of this…

“It is important to move debates about human rights out of courts and legal academies and back to where they belong – in Parliaments and newspapers and among groups of volunteers moved by injustice and cruelty wherever they occur.” Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Bad…

Dear Nigerian politician, it is difficult to wish you a happy new year as starting a year with the realization that the problems confronting the nation, Nigeria, are still with us could be demoralizing. Years in the past, when I had…

Our expectations are high for the year 2022 and this is expectedly so, for many reasons. The year gone by was a very difficult one for many, especially in the area of dwindling economic capacities, given all the variables of inflation, the…

Arbitration Bodies in Nigeria Arbitration bodies and institutions in Nigeria include the following: 1. The Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration, established in 1989. 2. Maritime Arbitrators’ Association of Nigeria. 3. The ADR Center of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, established to facilitate Mediation…

“If there is not a special place in hell for politically corrupt judges, there should at least be a Magnitsky list.” Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Bad People and How to be Rid of Them: A Plan for Human Rights, p. 228 (2021) 2021…

As the year comes to an end, Nigerians will soon be regaled, entertained and gripped with the theatricals and Baba Sala’s Alawada Kerikeri histrionics of many fake Prophets, Imams and marabouts that generously abound in the Nigerian religious space today. Nigerians may…

As  the year runs to an end and as we all, as individuals and entities, continue to take stock of the year in retrospect, I believe it is auspicious that the state of the nation be equally diagnosed towards possible prognosis for…

“If everything is for sale, including the courts and the police, trust evaporates, credit vanishes and business withers.” Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, p 257 (2016) It is no longer news that Nigeria’s courts have normalized corruption and…

“We are collecting signatures and we already have 73, which is more than the number we need to override the President”. Someone sitting beside me laughed out loud and said “jesters”! This indeed is the best way to describe the charade presently…