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09/03/2023

BREAKING NEWS: GADZAMA KNOCKS MAIKYAU ON MISCONCEIVED COMMENTS, DEMANDS RECUSAL FOR FAIR-HEARING AND ON GROUNDS OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT

》 MAIKYAU’S MISCONCEIVED COMMENTS ON MATTERS THAT ARE SUBJUDICE AN INSTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT AND BREACH OF RULE 33 OF THE RPC- GADZAMA

》 RECUSE YOURSELF FOR PROPER INVESTIGATION AS YOU CANNOT PRESIDE OVER YOUR OWN INVESTIGATION- GADZAMA TELLS MAIKYAU

》 BY YOUR MISCONCEIVED COMMENTS, YOU ARE APPROBATING AND REPROBATING - GADZAMA

》 DO NOT MISLEAD THE PUBLIC – GADZAMA TO MAIKYAU

》 OLANIPEKUN’S SUBSEQUENT CONDUCTS NO LESS AN ACT OF MISCONDUCT – MAIKYAU

》 BoSAN IS AN APT EXAMPLE THAT BLATANTLY BREACHES OWN RULES – MAIKYAU TO BoSAN

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BREAKING NEWS: GADZAMA KNOCKS MAIKYAU ON MISCONCEIVED COMMENTS, DEMANDS RECUSAL ON GROUNDS OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT AND FAIR-HEARING Maikyau’s MISCONCEIVED CommentS on Matters that are subjudice an Instance of Professional misconduct AND BREACH OF RULE 33 OF THE RPC- Gadzama Recuse Yourself FOR ...

06/02/2023

Supreme Court decision on Lawan v. Machina: a Journey back to 13th Century English Justice Delivery System By P. D. Pius, Esq. In 13th century English, common law was invoked. Rigid rules apply. No matter how good your case was, it can be thrown out on technical grounds. Basically on forms. E.g that...

06/02/2023

JUST IN: Supreme Court Affirms Ahmed Lawan As Senatorial Candidate Of Yobe North Supreme Court of Nigeria has affirmed Ahmed Lawan as the authentic Candidate of Yobe North Senatorial District. Recall that earlier reports had it that the APC challenged the nomination of Bashir Machina as the party’...

05/02/2023

By Sherif Hassan

BETTER A LAWYER BRAIN DRAIN THAN A LAWYER IN THE DRAIN? “Better a brain drain than a brain in the drain”.   The quoted words, which now form the crux of the current piece, were those of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, the youngest and sixth Indian Prime Minister. Perhaps it was made in the realization that, ...

05/02/2023

BETTER A LAWYER BRAIN DRAIN THAN A LAWYER IN THE DRAIN ?

By: Hassan Olalekan Sherif, Esq.

"Law firms must observe that traditional staff retention strategies such as coercion, fear, intimidation and blackmail have been criticized as detrimental to staff retention. They are counterproductive and have never been fashionable."

BETTER A LAWYER BRAIN DRAIN THAN A LAWYER IN THE DRAIN? “Better a brain drain than a brain in the drain”.   The quoted words, which now form the crux of the current piece, were those of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, the youngest and sixth Indian Prime Minister. Perhaps it was made in the realization that, ...

04/02/2023

"Why ‘Mungo Park & Clapperton’, instead of ‘Aluko & Oyebode’; ‘Banwo & Ighodalo’; or ‘Ozekhome & Femi?’ Why ‘McCullough & Clyde’; and not ‘Sobowale & Okonkwo’, when the firm is neither owned by, nor affiliated with the former? Why ‘Westborough Partners’; and not ‘Mustapha & Oche’, when none of the partners bear ‘Westborough’? Why ‘Greenfields, Everest & Associates’; ‘Westbrook, Blackberg & Co’; ‘Bracebridge Attorneys’; ‘Bladerstone & Cottingham’; ‘Stone & Cozens LLP’; ‘Woodpecker & Bird Solicitors’; when none of the partners bear such foreign names? Why not simply ‘The Prestige Chambers’; or ‘God is Marvellous LLP’? Why must it be names given to natural persons of Western origin, usually English?"

Chief Mike Ozekhome OFR, SAN.

Nigerian Law Firms And Foreign Names: Matters Arising By Chief Mike Ozekhome OFR, SAN. Juliet, soliloquizing in one of the most romantic scenes (“The Balcony Scene”) in Shakespeare’s epic, “Romeo and Juliet” (Act 2 Scene 2), said, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any oth...

02/02/2023

BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court dismisses suit against Oyetola’s participation in Osun poll Governor Adegboyega Oyetola The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to restore the nullification of the participation of Osun’s ex-Governor and his Deputy, Gbo...

02/02/2023

2023: FUEL AND NAIRA SCARCITY, A STITCH IN TIME, MR. PRESIDENT By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde, Bauchi, 27 January 2023 At the end of his tenure in 1985, the then Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, granted his last interview to Halilu Ahmed Getso of FRCN Kaduna. The answer to the last question in....

02/02/2023

By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde

2023: FUEL AND NAIRA SCARCITY, A STITCH IN TIME, MR. PRESIDENT By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde, Bauchi, 27 January 2023 At the end of his tenure in 1985, the then Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, granted his last interview to Halilu Ahmed Getso of FRCN Kaduna. The answer to the last question in....

31/01/2023

Why philanthropy stops at building a courthouse By: Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Nothing is to be done which creates even a suspicion that there has been an improper interference with the course of justice.” Lord Hewart, 9 Nov, 1923 in R v. Sussex Justices, [1924] 1 KB 256 Something extraordinar...

30/01/2023

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On 18 March 2014, Mpendulo Simelane, a judge of the High Court of eSwatini – the country formerly known as Swaziland – convicted Thulani Maseko and Bheki Makhubu of criminal contempt, sentencing them to 18 months in prison. Bheki, a journalist, worked as editor of The Na...

30/01/2023

WHO DOES GODWIN EMEFIELE WORK FOR? By: Mr. Moses Oludele Idowu It is time to begin interrogating our public officials. It is time to wake up. Today I want to ask questions about a particular public official whom I have never admired and whose conduct from the beginning raises a lot of suspicion. God...