In 1954, Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived in Nigeria in October 1945 from the British ...

Human rights lawyer, Professor Yemi Akinseyi-George, SAN, has said the killing of coal miners in Enugu in 1949 amounted to a ...

It is safe to say acephalous village societies were the commonest political culture in pre-colonial Nigeria. In some of the monarchies the kings were regarded as divine and they or dead ones ...

At the time, Nigeria was still a unitary system under ... a significant role in the administration of law and courts in post-colonial Africa, described the structure of the colonial court system ...

Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived in Nigeria in October 1945 from British ...