The First Major Casualty of Section 83 of the Electoral Act 2026 May Have Emerged The recent decision of the Federal High Court in Fubara Dagogo v. All Progressives Congress (APC) & 3 Ors., Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/591/2026 delivered by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, represents a significant development in Nigeria’s pre-election jurisprudence. In that case, the court...
A Poem by Chinedu Agu On the twenty-third of September,In the year two thousand and twenty-five,My phone rang like a funeral bell,Yet the caller said,“Please come alive.” They said the State had written my nameInside a petition dressed in blame,Mis-information Commissioner Declan Emelumba had lifted his pen,And suddenly, my keyboard became a den. Cyber bullying,...
BY MONDAY UBANI The First Major Casualty of Section 83 of the Electoral Act 2026 May Have Emerged The recent decision of the Federal High Court in Fubara Dagogo v. All Progressives Congress (APC) & 3 Ors., Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/591/2026 delivered by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, represents a significant development in Nigeria’s pre-election jurisprudence. In that...
The use of plea bargain agreements by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is drawing renewed scrutiny, with court records highlighting disparities in how the mechanism is applied to high-profile suspects and low-level offenders. A review of proceedings from the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, the Federal High Courts in Lagos and Abuja, and...
BVAS AND THE EXCLUSIVITY OF DIGITAL ACCREDITATION UNDER THE ELECTORAL ACT, 2026 BY HON. JUSTICE [PROFESSOR] ALABA OMOLAYE-AJILEYE (RTD) Digital accreditation refers to the electronic verification of a voter’s identity and eligibility before being allowed to vote. Under the Electoral Act, 2026, accreditation is unambiguously required to be digitally conducted through the Bimodal Voter Accreditation...
BY MONDAY UBANI When INEC Stays Away: The Legal Consequences of Non-Observation of Party Congresses and Conventions Under the Electoral Act 2026 My interest in this subject has grown steadily as a result of recent developments in Nigeria’s political horizon. As 2027 approaches, the emergence of nominees for elective offices has become a matter of...
First part – Political Right from the time of Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), led by Senator Arthur Nzeribe and Abimbola Davis, any discerning person in 1993 knew that these were the people the Babangida junta was using to truncate the June 12 election. They used Justices Bassey Ikpeme and Dahiru Saleh. Then, there were...
There’s hardly any doubt that the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), is making waves with his bold stance against impunity and commitment to justice. I am very privileged to be a chairman of a branch under the leadership of Mazi Afam Osigwe SAN as the President of the association. His achievements inspired me...
BY MONDAY ONYEKACHI UBANI THE UMUAHIA/IKWUANO/IKOT EKPENE ROAD: A SHAMELESS ATTEMPT TO REWRITE A KNOWN STORY I read with a mixture of amusement and sadness the statement credited to one Mr. Chidi Uwaeziozi, who claims to be the Controller of Works for Abia State in the Federal Ministry of Works. In that statement, he asserted...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu For nearly five years, Abia State has been the site of a bewildering contest over the crisis of corruption that now bedevils Nigeria’s judicial appointment process. Essentially, the appointment of judges in Nigeria has become something akin to a life-and-death contest, not for or on behalf of those seeking to get...