Thursday, March 6, 2008
Vol 8 No 19 3rd March 2008
THE EDITOR’S SPARK
Hi Friends,
Mr. Femi Falana is a well known Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist. He is not a Senior Advocate of Nigeria yet, though for no lack of trying. Does he deserve to be a Senior Advocate? Falana answers question in the positive in the letter he wrote the Chief Justice of Nigeria, recently, protesting the failure of his application to be honoured with the Senior Advocate of Nigeria title. That letter is our cover story. We await your reactions.
Otunba T.O.S. Bensn S.A.N the colourful, if loud politician and lawyer from Ikorodu died recently. One of those who paid tributes to him is Nurudeen Ogbara the Chairman of the NBA Ikorodu branch. Ogbara’s handsome tribute was delivered during the special valedictory session organized for the late nationalist by the Lagos State Judiciary on Thursday the 28th February 2008. We publish it.
Your ‘Sweet Regulars’ are especially delicious this week. Honest. I recommend you dine slowly on these delicacies - SQUIB DIARY, READERS PAVILION, ART-QUAKE, ART ATTACK, LEARNED SQUIB, THE PROFESSOR’S PODIUM, CASE LAW and MONITOR. They are not only sweet, but hot.
Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Do not take your music to the grave. Give life your best shots. The Heavens will Not Fall!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Vol 8 No 18 25th February 2008
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
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
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!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Vol 8 No 15 28th January 2008
THE EDITOR’S SPARK
Hi friends,
In this edition, we strayed just a little out of normal home grounds, if you know what I mean, to the office of the incumbent Commissioner of Police Lagos State, M.D Abubakar to get an interview. As you’ll find out, the straying may not actually be a frolic after all, since the C.P’s views and comments on issues raised with him should not bore any legal practitioner or even any enlightened mind.
We have two guests this week; Mrs. Tejumade Oke and the Squib Professor of Law, Ademola Adewale Esq. Oke, the Director of Centre for the Rule of Law reflects on the rights of women in her write-up while ‘Professor’ Ademola takes a critical look at the role of individuals vis-à-vis institutions in the crusade against corruption in Nigeria.
You do not have a full compliment of your Sweet Regulars (SR) this week. For example the Cartoons are still absent, likewise Book Excerpts, Squib Diary, and Squib Kudos. Nonetheless you will, we trust, find that the remainders of the SR, to wit, Readers’ Pavilion, Monitor, Case Law and The Learned Squib are great compliments to the main items. PLEASE CLICK IN THE BRACKETS BELOW TO READ THEM:
( www.learnedsquib.blogspot.com )
( www.squibreaderspavilion.blogspot.com )
( www.squibcaselaw.blogspot.com )
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
Related links: www.squibanticorruption.com
www.adesinaogunlana.blogspot.com
Hi friends,
In this edition, we strayed just a little out of normal home grounds, if you know what I mean, to the office of the incumbent Commissioner of Police Lagos State, M.D Abubakar to get an interview. As you’ll find out, the straying may not actually be a frolic after all, since the C.P’s views and comments on issues raised with him should not bore any legal practitioner or even any enlightened mind.
We have two guests this week; Mrs. Tejumade Oke and the Squib Professor of Law, Ademola Adewale Esq. Oke, the Director of Centre for the Rule of Law reflects on the rights of women in her write-up while ‘Professor’ Ademola takes a critical look at the role of individuals vis-à-vis institutions in the crusade against corruption in Nigeria.
You do not have a full compliment of your Sweet Regulars (SR) this week. For example the Cartoons are still absent, likewise Book Excerpts, Squib Diary, and Squib Kudos. Nonetheless you will, we trust, find that the remainders of the SR, to wit, Readers’ Pavilion, Monitor, Case Law and The Learned Squib are great compliments to the main items. PLEASE CLICK IN THE BRACKETS BELOW TO READ THEM:
( www.learnedsquib.blogspot.com )
( www.squibreaderspavilion.blogspot.com )
( www.squibcaselaw.blogspot.com )
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
Related links: www.squibanticorruption.com
www.adesinaogunlana.blogspot.com
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Vol 8 No 14 21st January 2008
THE EDITOR’S SPARK
Hi friends,
Last week, the NBA Ikeja Branch held the 4th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture. The lecture, a festival to celebrate the ideas and life of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, since inception bears the tag “FAWEHINMIISM”
The Squib however chose to dub the 2008 edition of the Gani festival “RIBADU-HINMIISM.” In case you are curious about this appellation, you’ll do well to go and read our Cover Story.(www.squibcoverstory.blogspot.com)
Starting from this edition, Your ‘Sweet’ Regulars’ gets a new member. This latest member goes by the name ‘SQUIB KUDOS’ and is dedicated to recognizing the positive acts and conduct of the personnel of the Judiciary at any level, as well as those of counsel and litigants.
This we believe, will encourage the continuation and emulation of such positive deeds and attitudes. So, we’ll be glad to hear and read from our dear readers about the “good deeds” of our judges, magistrates, court registrars, counsel etc. (www.squibkudos.blogspot.com)
For this edition, we have the Monitor, Readers’ Pavilion, Case Law, (www.squibcaselaw.blogspot.com) Learned Squib, (www.learnedsquib.blogspot.com),Diary(www.squiblogg.blogspot.com) and SQUIB KUDOS, making the Sweet Regulars. CLICK IN BRACKETS TO READ. The Cartoons are still missing. We are on the search for Cartoonists. Do you know of any one?
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
Hi friends,
Last week, the NBA Ikeja Branch held the 4th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture. The lecture, a festival to celebrate the ideas and life of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, since inception bears the tag “FAWEHINMIISM”
The Squib however chose to dub the 2008 edition of the Gani festival “RIBADU-HINMIISM.” In case you are curious about this appellation, you’ll do well to go and read our Cover Story.(www.squibcoverstory.blogspot.com)
Starting from this edition, Your ‘Sweet’ Regulars’ gets a new member. This latest member goes by the name ‘SQUIB KUDOS’ and is dedicated to recognizing the positive acts and conduct of the personnel of the Judiciary at any level, as well as those of counsel and litigants.
This we believe, will encourage the continuation and emulation of such positive deeds and attitudes. So, we’ll be glad to hear and read from our dear readers about the “good deeds” of our judges, magistrates, court registrars, counsel etc. (www.squibkudos.blogspot.com)
For this edition, we have the Monitor, Readers’ Pavilion, Case Law, (www.squibcaselaw.blogspot.com) Learned Squib, (www.learnedsquib.blogspot.com),Diary(www.squiblogg.blogspot.com) and SQUIB KUDOS, making the Sweet Regulars. CLICK IN BRACKETS TO READ. The Cartoons are still missing. We are on the search for Cartoonists. Do you know of any one?
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
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Vol 8 No 13 14th January 2008
THE EDITOR'S SPARK
Hi friends,
Where are my cards, wines, chickens, turkeys, rams (live or roasted), etc? I asked you first, so dear readers should not bother the Squib about their new year gifts. Am I glad to see all of you again in the lawyers' parliament after all these days and weeks of sundry festivities?Well, the New Year is already on the move and things are already happening. Our Cover Story is about the latest silk addition to the Ikeja Bar - Dele Adesina Esq., SAN, particularly, how he, from a struggling background made it to the top of his profession, and still rising.Your Sweet Regulars are not all in the house. The Cartoons, Monitor and Book Excerpts are absent. Please bear with us for this week. But even at half-strength, you'll certainly find your SR quite a delight.While we pray for a prosperous and triumphant year for all men and women of goodwill, we serve notice that your darling Squib will not repent of its hard-hitting and daring style and methods.Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Don't carry your music to the grave. Give Life Your Best Shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
Hi friends,
Where are my cards, wines, chickens, turkeys, rams (live or roasted), etc? I asked you first, so dear readers should not bother the Squib about their new year gifts. Am I glad to see all of you again in the lawyers' parliament after all these days and weeks of sundry festivities?Well, the New Year is already on the move and things are already happening. Our Cover Story is about the latest silk addition to the Ikeja Bar - Dele Adesina Esq., SAN, particularly, how he, from a struggling background made it to the top of his profession, and still rising.Your Sweet Regulars are not all in the house. The Cartoons, Monitor and Book Excerpts are absent. Please bear with us for this week. But even at half-strength, you'll certainly find your SR quite a delight.While we pray for a prosperous and triumphant year for all men and women of goodwill, we serve notice that your darling Squib will not repent of its hard-hitting and daring style and methods.Well, until when next the parliament opens, do not take it easy. Don't carry your music to the grave. Give Life Your Best Shots. The Heavens Will Not Fall!
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