Nigeria and the fading lights of justice, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

For insisting on calling attention to this kind of criminal acccessorisation of judges, Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory who is also a member of Nigeria’s Body of Benchers (BoB), invited the grandees of the BoB who visited him in his office at the end of last month to dispense with basic niceties of process and “punish” me… Such cravenness from the leadership of the self-described “body of practitioners of the highest distinction in the legal…