THE EDITOR’S SPARK
Hi Friends,
It is almost always a sorry sight to see a legal practitioner in the dock - particularly so when accused of non-political crimes. On 29th January, 2008 that ugly fate befell one Barrister Obiorah Umeh, when he was arraigned before Magistrate court 3 Ikeja for joining another person to forge the judgment of an Ikeja High Court.
Is Barrister Umeh guilty as charged? Find out more details in our cover story.
Last year, I, the editor of the your darling magazine Adesina Ogunlana Esq. wrote an open letter to the Lagos State House of Assembly demanding probe and sanctions against the headship of the Lagos State Judiciary over the bewildering affair of delayed re-assignment of case files by the Chief Judge, Adetula Alabi C. J. I received a written response from the House of Assembly dated 14th December, 2007 to his petition. Published together in this edition are both the editor’s petition and the Lagos State House of Assembly’s response. Readers should please tell us later what they make of the letters.
Last week, NBA activists and leaders gathered in Makurdi Benue State, precisely on the 21st February, 2008 to attend the 1st Quarter National Executive Council meeting of the association. Your Squib was there and brought some ‘gists’ and pictures of the event.
Very happily, all your Sweet Regulars except the SQUIB KUDOS and BOOK EXCERPTS are present in this edition – Diary, Readers’ Pavilion, Monitor, The Professor’s Podium, The Learned Squib, Squib Society, Art Attack And Art - Quake. Quite a lot to chew on!
Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Don’t take your music to the grave. Give life your best shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
Adesina Ogunlana
Editor-in-Chief
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Vol 8 No 17 18th February 2008
The Editor’s Spark
Hi Friends,
How was your JUSUN - made holidays? Well the strike of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, which shut down courts for 9 days ended suddenly more or less as it started.
Our Cover Story is on a certainly retrogressive “Inclusion Policy” of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association. The so called “Inclusion Policy” is a double speak for an extension of an already controversial “Zoning Formula” which prescribes the rotation of the post of President among three loose regions of East, West and North.
Before Agbakoba’s ascendancy to the leadership of the NBA, the Zoning Formula was unofficial and **** only to the post of President, the most important office in the NBA. Now, the NBA president and his co-travellers want the ‘ZF’ official, permanent and even extended. This is the big agenda at the forthcoming meeting of the NBA in Makurdi this week, 20-21 February 2008. But will the scheme succeed? Our Squib feature pages are devoted to the reaction of one Mr. Moroof Lateef, to our Vol. 8 Number 3 (8th October, 2007 edition) cover story entitled “JUDGE SENDS BLASTER TO PRISON FOR 60 DAYS ONLY.” The ‘blaster’ in that write-up is none other than Moroof Lateef, a self described “Commercial Law Practitioner” who got the jail term from Honourable Justice Morenike Obadina of the Ikeja High Court, for contempt of court. Lateef feels oppressed however by the honourable judge, whom he has subsequently taken out a suit against. He also forwarded his reaction to our story. The reaction is published fully, with scant editing. Also re-published is the judgment of Obadina J. that landed Moroof Lateef in jail. Ademola Adewale Esq. a.k.a Professor perhaps the most consistent contributor in the Squib now has a column here. Fittingly, Adewale’s column is named - The Professor’s Podium. Every week, or fortnightly, starting from today the learned Squib’s ‘Professor’ of Law, a 1985 graduate of Law from the University of Ife will put on display his deep, histo-sociological cum intellectual appreciation of issues in the legal and judicial world. The Professor’s Podium is a very welcome addition to your Sweet Regulars (SR). This week, the Monitor, Book-excerpt and Squib Kudos are not in the SR line-ups. The other guys -Pavilion, Diary, Learned Squib, Case Law, Art Attack and Art-Quake are all in. You will enjoy them. True.
Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Don’t take your music to the grave. Give life your best shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
Hi Friends,
How was your JUSUN - made holidays? Well the strike of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, which shut down courts for 9 days ended suddenly more or less as it started.
Our Cover Story is on a certainly retrogressive “Inclusion Policy” of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association. The so called “Inclusion Policy” is a double speak for an extension of an already controversial “Zoning Formula” which prescribes the rotation of the post of President among three loose regions of East, West and North.
Before Agbakoba’s ascendancy to the leadership of the NBA, the Zoning Formula was unofficial and **** only to the post of President, the most important office in the NBA. Now, the NBA president and his co-travellers want the ‘ZF’ official, permanent and even extended. This is the big agenda at the forthcoming meeting of the NBA in Makurdi this week, 20-21 February 2008. But will the scheme succeed? Our Squib feature pages are devoted to the reaction of one Mr. Moroof Lateef, to our Vol. 8 Number 3 (8th October, 2007 edition) cover story entitled “JUDGE SENDS BLASTER TO PRISON FOR 60 DAYS ONLY.” The ‘blaster’ in that write-up is none other than Moroof Lateef, a self described “Commercial Law Practitioner” who got the jail term from Honourable Justice Morenike Obadina of the Ikeja High Court, for contempt of court. Lateef feels oppressed however by the honourable judge, whom he has subsequently taken out a suit against. He also forwarded his reaction to our story. The reaction is published fully, with scant editing. Also re-published is the judgment of Obadina J. that landed Moroof Lateef in jail. Ademola Adewale Esq. a.k.a Professor perhaps the most consistent contributor in the Squib now has a column here. Fittingly, Adewale’s column is named - The Professor’s Podium. Every week, or fortnightly, starting from today the learned Squib’s ‘Professor’ of Law, a 1985 graduate of Law from the University of Ife will put on display his deep, histo-sociological cum intellectual appreciation of issues in the legal and judicial world. The Professor’s Podium is a very welcome addition to your Sweet Regulars (SR). This week, the Monitor, Book-excerpt and Squib Kudos are not in the SR line-ups. The other guys -Pavilion, Diary, Learned Squib, Case Law, Art Attack and Art-Quake are all in. You will enjoy them. True.
Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Don’t take your music to the grave. Give life your best shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
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