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The law school program is quite an interesting but convoluted scheme that requires a lot of preparation and timing, as it is now, it is already sixteen days into the program and I am counting down to 170 days left before we go for court/chamber attachment actually, we have finished our registration and I will like to run through some of the processes with you, with a bit of reflex ion I will like to take us back a little, from the banks to the internet and to the various campuses where we had to complete the following steps: 1.      Change the bank receipt to that of the law school 2.      Collect and fill the bio data and the identity card forms 3.      Collect a slip with your registration number and group 4.      Go for medicals with all your test results 5.      And collect your medical card 6.      Then rush and secure your accommodation because...

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...

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...

When we talk about the court of love we are not referring to the Family Court or the process of divorce or the probate court,like law, love is a complex concept which has continued to defy any one generally acceptable definition, and though it can not be defined accurately it is undoubtedly a powerful phenomenon which ought to be recognized, codified and guided by strict principles and policies and which like statute no one should say he has understood it until he has been properly tutored on it. The court of love deserves to be a superior court of record with unlimited jurisdiction as far as the heart is concerned; its jurisdiction covers dating, toasting, wooing, courtship, marriage and sex. Love can be said to be an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment . Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness , compassion , and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Love may describe compassiona...

The news of the fuel subsidy removal on the 1 st of January 2012, which brought the price of petrol to a whooping N141 came as a rude shock to most Nigerians, obviously that was not the kind of new year gift any Nigerian would have expected and thus it has continued to generate reactions judging from the nation wide strike which the organized labour and other civil society groups embarked on, grounding economic activities in the country. The common people have clearly and continuously said “no” to this issue of fuel subsidy removal, no doubt the interest of the people have been compromised as their collective interest have been drowned by the interest of a few key players in this economic chess game which may continue to be umpired by miscreants. The skirmishes which ensued have left an indelible mark on the minds of Nigerians, especially the picture of protests, burning of properties and more so some innocent people have lost their lives. It is the opinion of most common people t...

THE MATRIX OF STRIKE T he issue of who or what takes precedence in the case of strike or industrial action in Nigeria remains a topic for generalized debate. What is certain however is that every industrial action embarked upon is just as important as the next, this may sound paradoxical yet, in view of the vital importance of every party to a dispute and the consequence or effects, one can easily x-ray the above statements to a large extent. However, every strike action in my opinion spurns from the same ginnery of discontent which reveals a common thread. This may be as a result of prior nonreciprocal promise by one party or an unfair treatment of one party contrary to international best practices. There is no gain saying that all these can be attributed to corruption which is on the increase and employers are usually blamed for most of the problems associated with strike. Strike is defined in the oxford advanced learners dictionary as a period of time when an organize...

  CHOLERA AN UNDERDEVELOPMENTAL CHALANGE To say that Nigeria is an underdeveloped country would just be stating the obvious. Underdevelopment is a term often used to refer to economic underdevelopment, albeit there are political underdevelopment and social underdevelopment. Symptoms of these under developmental disease include lack of access to job opportunities, health care, drinkable water, food, education, housing, roads etc. Cholera as we are aware is a disease which is said to affect the human digestive system, it is an infection in the small intestine caused by the bacterium vibrio cholerae, cholera is typically transmitted by either contaminated food or water. In the developed world, sea food is usually the cause, while in the underdeveloped world it is often caused by water. People infected with cholera often have diarrhea, and if this highly liquid stool contaminates water used by others, disease transmission may occur. In Haiti reports have it that cholera d...