IGBO YORUBA HAUSA TRENDING: VIDEO MUST WATCH

What is going on in this country recession endangers the lives and limbs of our girls and women. Yesterday on Face book women complained of being harassed by Igbo men in market places. Same yesterday we learned of Yoruba and Hausa men in human trafficking moving our girls from Abeokuta to Libya under horrendous conditions and turning the girls to sex slaves. That is what this video is about Nigeria save our girls from man 's inhumanity. Click on the video below dear colleagues and by overt or covert acts do not support human trafficking. Do not cultivate the mindset of these cruel individuals. That a former NBA President of South West extraction or of any extraction whatsoever MR FIX IT. would approve harassment of women lawyers and he gets an Igbo lawyer to help his ungentlemanly conduct of asking for a hundred million naira ransom cruel and barbaric!

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APC, PDP SAME, ONLY ONE IS A HYPOCRITE! - ARTICLE BY HR ATTORNEY EBUN

On Monday, May 22, 2017, 1:06:25 AM GMT+1,

Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa <ebun_olu@yahoo.com> wrote:

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

In a bye election into the House of Representatives in Katsina State recently, it was reported that voters turned out en mass to express their anger and frustration, with majority of voters booting out the APC, the ruling party in the State, which is the home state of the President. This is not the issue.

For it will be self deception, for anybody to delude himself that the solution to Nigeria now is to change from APC to PDP. That is grand delusion indeed, of changing just the garment but retaining the person. We have seen the worse of PDP in times past and we have now seen the best of APC. Both are not good enough for Nigeria, because politicians are the same, at least in Nigeria. It is all about self interest, nothing more. The corruption of the APC govt, when it will be unearthed eventually, will be historical. Please mark my words.

The only difference in the APC misadventure is the active collusion of progressive lawyers, human rights and pro-democracy activists and labour leaders, not sparing the media.

In the past, especially under the military regimes and the renegade politicians (PDP in particular), activists stood tall as the conscience of the people, taking out the programmes of govt that were considered anti people. In the present dispensation, our "comrades", lawyers and labour leaders, journalists, etc, changed not only the lyrics but also the tune of all our familiar battle songs. Some even said that we should suspend the Constitution and the rule of law, in order to enthrone civilian dictatorship. We are now told that their counterparts in the military are now planning a coup. Thank God are eyes are now "open".

Let us not be deceived, to think that the solution to Nigeria is all about voting out APC. Far from it. Yes, we must rid Nigeria of this current army of bandits parading themselves as progressives, but never again shall we fall into the terrible hands of the PDP. Never again! Not in our lifetime!! Never!!!

Let our comrades come back home. They have failed Nigeria, but they should come back home to where they rightly belong, on the side of the suffering masses of our people. It is bad enough to be a corrupt politician, but it is certainly worse to be a hypocrite, buried deep in the pit of a so-called progressive government, that has only grabbed power just for the sake of it. 

Activists please come back home, speak for the people, organize, mobilize and take hold of Nigeria. Let us boot out this APC, but by all means fence off the PDP and take Nigeria back for our people.

Organize, mobilize and take over. Enough of APC and bye bye to PDP.

Ebun-olu Adegboruwa, Esq.,

Itedo, Lekki, Lagos.

22/05/2017

Still on Revered CJN's Directives on Suffix "ESQ"

Distinguished Colleagues,

We are having to co-ordinate on Facebook  two platforms this one here and the other RULES WATCH where the Lord Onnoghen’s celebrated directives was post simultaneously for wider reach to our dear readers.

On this platform I like to acknowledge a great American, Professor Lynn Fraser approved our CJN’s directives. Many may not know her, she is a first class US Attorney. She taught me in Georgetown University Law Center DC LL.M., a course in International human rights law.

Abiodun Adeyanju Esq also contributed, he is a Nigerian Lawyer  now a senior staff of the Federal High Court.

Over two decades our colleagues hailed someone as the Dame of the Nigerian Bar. This came about in 2001 at the International Bar Association Conference in Cancun Mexico I was at a session on discriminatory practices in the profession and Professor Mensah South African was on a panel and I put the question to him Sir how do you address  lawyers in your jurisdiction and he said “Ladies”  female lawyers and “gentlemen” for male lawyers and I said in my jurisdiction they say there are no ladies at the bar and so address all as “gentlemen of the bar” and he said that is bad conduct and had been  discarded. He said when you return home endeavor to ‘preach the gospel’.

Back home I wrote a few articles in the law pages of Thisday, Guardian and Vanguard etc and carried out a campaign such that when my colleagues say there are no ladies at the bar I would often pushback in saying “I AM THE DAME OF THE BAR”.

ESQ is used in professional circles connotes same mode as  President, Ambassador, Ministers in the temple of justice – without gender coloration.  Kindly shake off the negative soundtrack that suffix ESQ for ladies  means you are no longer a learned lady– you are a professional lady who takes the same suffix as a learned man as long as you remain in a profession of learnedness; let us enamour  learned ladies. Re-stating the horror of learned ladies who get often asked in court “ are you Miss or Mrs” is no use, I have spoken enough on that & will now rest.

Respectfully submitted

Carol Ajie ESQ

LORD ONNOGHEN UNDERSCORES SUFFIX "ESQ' FOR FEMALE & MALE LAWYERS!

We made the observations repeatedly that it is archaic and outmoded,

when a female lawyer announces her appearance in court, to ask

as Nigerian Judges in habits - "Are you Miss or Mrs?" Infra-dig!

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen at the Supreme Court session directed that the use of  Miss/Mrs/Ms for female lawyers is doltish and must be discarded.

He urged female Lawyers to resist being compelled by Judges to disclose their Marital status while announcing their names in court or in other professional settings and legal writings.

Hon. Justice Onnoghen cautioned that the professional and proper suffix is ‘Esquire’. He also advised that in cases where more than one legal practitioner is appearing, without title there should be introductory appellation- Messrs for  females or male. And for one lawyer appearing it is ‘Esq’ female or male with of course SAN if he or she is appearing in a matter. This happened today at the Supreme Court.

 

Carol Ajie ESQ.,

LAWA Fellow 2009-2010 Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue Washington DC 20001 Email: ca338@law.georgetown.edu GSM: +2348033041206

PMB's Letter to Senate Fights Shy of the Word "Acting President"

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Buhari names Osinbajo ‘coordinator’ of nation’s affairs

May 9, 2017Hassan Adebayo

President Muhammadu Buhari with Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo

President Muhammadu Buhari says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will “coordinate” the nation’s affairs while he is abroad for medical treatment.
A letter sent by the president to the Senate, notifying lawmakers of his trip, however raised questions Tuesday about Mr. Osinbajo’s powers after Mr. Buhari failed to address him as “acting president”.
Mr. Buhari left Nigeria Sunday night, shortly after receiving 82 Chibok girls who regained freedom after three years in Boko Haram captivity.
Since coming to power in May 2015, it is the fourth time Mr. Osinbajo would be acting on behalf of the president.
Mr. Buhari has won praises for promptly handing over power before embarking on each trip.
This time, the president said his stay in the United Kingdom would be determined by his doctors.
But his latest correspondence to the Senate, read by the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, was questioned by a Senator who argued that Mr. Osinbajo should have been designated “acting president”.
Mao Ohabunwa, a Peoples Democratic Party senator, representing Abia North, said it was not proper to name the vice president “coordinator” of the nation’s affairs.

He was however ruled out of order by Mr. Saraki, after the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, defended Mr. Buhari, citing Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution.
That section says, “Whenever the President transmits to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-President as Acting President.”

CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS: NOT NAMING VILLAINS?

Now you want to ask why is it easier for Buhari’s government  to release the names and photographs of innocent  Nigerian children abducted from their school years ago, victims of  grueling assault,  trafficked and forced into marriages  to filthy Boko Haram members yet we have not read  a single name of Boko Haram members whom FG  purportedly swapped particularly bearing in mind that BH  prisoners said to have been swapped were said to be in custody so their names ought to have been  recorded against their photos;  shouldn’t government name some gangsters?.  Who should government protect -

The Villains or  the Victims?

Concerned Citizen

Carol Ajie, LL.B(Hons) Benin; B.L(Lagos); MCIArb(UK); LL.M (Int’l Legal Studies) Georgetown D.C; LAWA Fellow GULC; VV Lead Fellow 2013-17 United Nations’ Empower Women Champion for Change 2016-2017; IBA Human Rights Working Group Africa Regional Officer 2014-2016

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