Update: GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are pleased to announce that Chepkorir Sambu will be joining us for the STRAIGHTCHAT X SPACES: Human Rights Day Edition!

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Pardon Me?! By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs of the Niger Delta of King Ja...

“Pardon me?!” — Prof. Chidi Odinkalu’s latest essay questions Nigeria’s new wave of presidential pardons, connecting it to centuries of injustice, from King Jaja to the Ogoni Nine.

A sharp, necessary read.
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#GEJ2027: A Hostage in the Lap of the Judges By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Seven years ago, in 2018, my good friend and former Dean of Law at the University of Ghana at Legon, Professor Raymond Atuguba, undertook a path-breaking study which sought “to move away from the perc...

#GEJ2027: A Hostage in the Lap of the Judges” by Chidi Odinkalu

As Goodluck Jonathan weighs a 2027 comeback, Odinkalu warns that his fate may lie less in politics and more in the hands of Nigeria’s judges.
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When insecurity becomes normal and voters become irrelevant, what remains of democracy?

Democracy without Voters: The Origin of Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis By Prof @ChidiOdinkalu
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Op-Ed: In Rivers State, A Republic of Anomaly Renews its Methods By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Fred...

Rivers State: A Republic of Anomaly Renewing Its Methods

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

This is not just about Rivers, it’s about the future of democracy in Nigeria.

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Op-Ed: In Kenya, William Ruto’s Hustle Is Abductions By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Colonial occupation and domination prospered by abducting and liquidating the most vocal Africans. Those whom it drove into exile were lucky. Sir Evelyn Baring invented the manual on this form of pred...

Op-Ed: In Kenya, William Ruto’s Hustle Is Abductions By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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