Rivers emergency ruling sparks outrage: Supreme court accused of rubber-stamping executive power after crisis expired The Supreme Court’s judgment on the Rivers State emergency declaration has been criticised as a hollow legal exercise delivered long after its impact could matter. According to Prof. John Egbeazien Oshodi, the ruling—affirming the President’s authority to impose a state of emergency in Rivers State—arrived nine months after the crisis began and three months after the emergency itself had already ended, rendering the verdict “useless and meaningless.” Oshodi argues that justice in this case did not...