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LIPS INTERVIEW WITH SULE S. KWASAU, ESQ. HE IS THE PRINCIPAL PARTNER, SULE S. KWASAU & CO., A LAW FIRM BASED IN JOS PLATEAU STATE, IN THIS INTERVIEW WITH LIPS HE SPEAKS ON THE ROLE OF LEGAL PRACTITIONERS IN GROOMING YOUNGER AND FUTURE LAWYERS OF THE NEAR FUTURE

THESE WERE SOME OF HIS VIEWS. Firstly, he has no regrets as far as being in the profession is concerned especially as it relates to private practice, as against working in the public sector, one of his memorable moments was his appointment by the C.J.N as a Notary public in 2008 under the Notary public Act, because it has furthered his career not just within Nigeria but the world at large. As a lawyer he enjoys freedom from circumscription. He stressed the need for upcoming lawyers to have a vibrant library stating that no lawyer can succeed today without a well equipped library. He further expressed his view that many lawyers who started buying books early have made it today because they started on the right footing. He further emphasized the need for future lawyers to be computer literate. This is because soon, filing processes in the courts can be done via the internet based on e-filing methods which he strongly believes will soon be the order of the day. More so, co

AMENDING THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION

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The Nigerian constitutional amendment is quite apt, in view of the declining political, economic and social conditions characterizing the polity today. This can be traced to the improper and undemocratic method in which the constitution as we have it today in Nigeria was fashioned. These factors, among other factors have continued to bedevil and hound the existence of the Nigerian State and has continued to eat up the sovereignty of the constitution, giving rise to entities and individuals who are assuming positions that are apparently superior to the constitution and the country itself. In my view nothing should be more important in the political culture and existence of a nation than the constitution by which its citizens are governed. The Nigerian political and historical records have made us to understand that the Nigerian constitutional evolution was hijacked by the imperial government and subsequently the military government by the acclaimed supreme mi