Writing in The Republic III, Marcus Tullius Cicero had laid down what, until Nigerian judges began to re-evaluate his legal principles, looked like an eternal truism in Law, upon which every lawyer in the world was trained. It’s very popular and contained in that famous publication of this great Roman jurist: “True law is right reason in agreement with nature; …

A few days ago, the Enugu State House of Assembly was in the news, after years of unflatteringly idle and comatose legislative existence for all the wrong reasons. One of its principal officers, Chinedu Nwamba, who chairs the House Committee on, wait for it, “Public Accounts and Anti-corruption”, rose on the floor of the Assembly with a motion that was …