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 ...

Nigeria is of course a plural state made ... Niger rivers had historically been in contact with one another before the advent of colonialism. So we can identify a commonality of culture at least ...

Nigeria’s journey from a colonial entity with three regions to a federation of 36 states has been shaped by political, ...

Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial ...

At the time, Nigeria was still a unitary system under colonial rule. Two years before Sir John’s arrival in Nigeria, the Native Courts (Colony) Ordinance of 1943 had created a “Supreme Court ...