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 British ...

The country's political instability, economic hardship, ongoing conflicts, corruption, the devastating flood in the city of Derna and no real hope for a joint governmentoffered plenty of material ...

Before the Supreme Court of Nigeria becomes a commune of Bantustans, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Layer 1 In 1954 Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument.

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 ...

The crisis of appellate throughput and its consequences which presently afflicts Nigeria’s Supreme Court is too serious to be banished to post-codes defined by geographies of genealogy. To ...

Semper Fi Always Faithful Then, in 1805, after Lt. Presley O'Bannon led Marines in capturing the city of Derna during the First Barbary War, the motto changed to "To the Shores of Tripoli" to ...

Flag Over Dérna. On March 12, 1937, Benito Mussolini paused in his tour of Libya at the port of Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had ...

Ms Daniell, 34, from Chorlton, Greater Manchester, led the UK’s Emergency Medical Team into Derna, Libya, after heavy rains from Storm Daniel burst two major dams, causing widespread destructive ...

Extracts from Chernyshevsky's 1858 article criticizing the contemporary views on the Russian mir and communal ownership.