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Living here, Breathing Air. Ship Navigator 🛳️⚓ | Sometimes Photographer 📷 | Future Farmer🐄 and Pilot 🚁

[Demola Of Lagos 𓃵 @OmoGbajaBiamila]

People who live in this place once told you that "Lagos smells..." was a coordinated and sponsored agenda to discredit the government and you believed them. 🤭

Same people even had the guts to tell others to go back to their states.

Again, 🤭.

[simi @hey_similoluwa]

I loathe this guy than other politicians. He’ll be talking like he’s not one of them and couldn’t have effected change. Chameleon buruku

[Monsieur Avril @monsieur_avril]

There is literally
1. Legal Aid Council
2. Lawyers without Borders
3. NBA has mandatory aid where they offer indegent persons representation and free them from incarceration
4. Citizen's Gavel
5. To even attain some ranks as a lawyer, you must have probono presentations to your name.

These are thousands and thousands of aquittal of individuals.

Because Dem no wear cowries for neck and open camera, e no turn you on. 🥹

[Wolfie 🐺 @TheIgboWolf]

" My dear Aunty Ronke if you see me insulting or dragging you for endorsing any useless politician, just look away cause i want daily bread 🍞to be available to everyone, please 🙏 try to understand"

[Sam @ilynem]

None of them have been accused of being criminals. That’s ok with me.

[Olu Awolowo | Eni Oba nke | Okanlomo Oodua @Donendy2003]

When Ecobank took over Oceanic Bank, the Oceanic staff discovered that we were calling one another by our first names in Ecobank. Our MD Funke Osibodu was Funke but not Mrs. Osibodu. They were coming from a background that they were calling Mr. Adetunji, Oga Deji, Madam Ibru, Dr. Clever…. So, they had to adjust. So, if it is Mrs. Cecilia Ibru who is cautioning that lady, I may not have any issue with it. No issue because that is what she encouraged in the institution that she ran in Oceanic Bank. Majority of Nigerians who will be contributing on this discussion online will definitely not know this truth. They will not know because most of them were still in primary school or still crawling in the 1990s when Tony Elumelu and his other ‘cow boy bankers’ came to the corporate world at their tender ages. Elumelu became MD of Standard Trust Bank, STB in 1997 at age 34. Other guys who floated GT bank and Access Bank were also in their 30s. They could not do the work alone so they had to recruit staff into their Banks. They discovered that the experienced people that they were hiring were in their 40s, and 50s. They found it ridiculous to be calling their staff Mr. Lagbaja and Mr. Tamedu. They had a complex, giving instructions to someone older than them. To conquer the complex, they introduced the idea of calling all staff by their first names. It levelled the ground for everybody. Mr. Daramola Oladeji at 44 is now addressed as Deji, Mrs. Oluwole Olufunmilayo with 3 boys in the university at 48 was being called Funmi at work and she must answer. They were the one who came to destroy the work place ethics in order to satisfy their ego and help them manage their complex.
One good thing about it I must confess is that it makes you freer to relate with your colleagues without any age barrier to the overall benefit of the organization. In Ecobank during the general staff meeting which we call village meeting, you will hear people saying ‘Funke’, I have been raising my hand since and you have not given me chance to talk … that is the MD that that they are addressing. Even at that, if I am to travel with the MD to Abuja on the same flight and I want to ask her which airline to book, i will enter her office and say ‘Funke admin is asking me which airline should they book for our journey?’ Do you know that on that flight, I will carry her bag, as a mark of respect. If another big Oga is with us on the trip and we reach our destination and he ask ‘ Deji what are you doing, you are delaying us’; Do you know I can tell the Oga without any fear, "I am waiting for the conveyor belt to bring Funke's bag, but it has not come" meanwhile, the person i am calling Funke is the owner of the bag I am waiting to collect oooo.

I have gone this far to let you know that even in the midst of name calling, we used to give honor and regard to one another but not openly like they do in some other places. That girl knew which environment she was coming into. She knew people were being called and addressed by their first names. They were tutored along this line in the training school. Those who violated the policy were given penalized
She will do d same in an Access Bank. She will do it in GT and Ecobank and she will not be reprimanded. I had an Oga that came from Afribank of old to join us in Ecobank. When he would address our Group Head, he was always being fined N1,000 in those days. He would say ‘Excuse me, Sir’, here is a fine of N1,000. Mr. Lagbaja sir, another N1,000 fine but when he calls our Group Head by his first name, our group head will say ‘Yes, i am listening’. The other man was coming from a background where the culture was different from the new place he found himself.

Money has come; age has also come. Tony is seeing that lady as age mate of his own girls of yesteryears who have equally become ladies now. He and his friends who were underaged bankers were the promoters of this culture in the banking industry.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

Absolutely!

Our latest Price of Survival report found that the cost of a healthy diet rose 11.7% in just three months, from ₦1,380 to ₦1,541 per person per day.

In Ekiti for example, eating a healthy diet would take up 89.6% of a ₦70,000 minimum wage, leaving just about ₦7,261 for rent, transport, electricity, school fees, healthcare and everything else.

GDP can grow. Inflation can fall. But can a Nigerian salary still carry a Nigerian life?

That is the real economic indicator. Every other thing is further maths.

Read report 👉 https://t.co/xUyJJQudpy

[Ènìyàn @Karptein]

You arrive at the airport to find the doors closed and passengers standing outside. 2 hours to scheduled departure time, they tell you the airline is not allowed to operate.
First and last time using airpeace.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

We have reached the motivational speeches stage.

[Ade Of Nigeria @Hammdriller]

@PastorMarvy @nigimmigration @fkeyamo @FAAN_Official @mikeachimugu01 This is how a rogue immigration person would facilitate a terrorist into the country.

[Alhaji @yeankhar]

Atiku nko? He came “second” in the last election. Is that not your direct adversary? Why focus on “distant third”?

Again, what did you people see on the Irev portal in 2023 that scares you this much?

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is precisely the tragic reality that W.E.B. Du Bois painfully discovered during the final stages of his intellectual life. The Black individuals who somehow manage to accumulate personal wealth, corporate power, and elite social status do not . . 1/n

[Fizzo @Adesunkanmifiz]

If a Nigerian Neurosurgeon wants to move to Uzbekistan to become a sheep herder allow him or her. Focus on your own life

[UptownOfLagos @Uptownoflagos]

*Fixed. 📌

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Bro, na true?
Bro, I go lie for you?
OK, bro. Interview is over.

[Anglo-Eastern @angloeasterngrp]

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[Ibeh @masurge7]

How do you realize a Record Breaking IGR

Then go ahead on a Record Breaking borrowing spree

Only to deliver a Record Breaking "nothing to show"?

FAILURE! FAILURE!! FAILURE!!!

[Ènìyàn @Karptein]

No be today, e don tey
Wey nyash don dey for back

[E.P Aninze Esq. @EkeneAninze]

Whenever I say that Chief Gani Fawehinmi suffered persecution as a human rights lawyer, it was not just at the hands of the military.

Even some of his colleagues in the legal profession came after him.

Let me tell you one of the most remarkable stories in Nigerian legal history.

On March 23, 1981, the West Africa Magazine published one of its editions.

On page 621 of the magazine was a photograph of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, dressed in his lawyer's wig and gown while holding a thick legal book.

The caption beneath the photograph read:

"A New Book on Nigerian Constitution: Titled Nigerian Constitutional Law Report 1981 Volume One, edited by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, the famous, reputable and controversial Nigerian lawyer."

That simple caption immediately became a problem.

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, alongside other respected legal minds, frowned at the publication.

They accused Gani Fawehinmi of advertising himself through the magazine, something they believed was against the ethics of the legal profession.

A query was issued to him, directing him to explain within 14 days why disciplinary action should not be taken against him.

But before the 14 days even expired, Gani Fawehinmi was already charged and dragged before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) for alleged professional misconduct.

What happened next was even more shocking.

When the LPDC convened to hear the matter, the same Attorney-General of the Federation who initiated the investigation was the one presiding as the Chairman of the Committee.

As if that was not enough, three other members of the LPDC were members of the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), an association that had already publicly condemned Fawehinmi's actions.

In other words, the people accusing him were also the people preparing to judge him.

The moment Gani Fawehinmi realized that he would be facing a panel made up of his accusers and critics, he immediately withdrew.

Instead, he approached the court to challenge the composition of the Committee.

His argument was straightforward.

He maintained that the composition of the panel violated his constitutional right to fair hearing under Section 33 of the 1979 Constitution.

He reminded the court that fair hearing rests on two timeless principles of natural justice:

Nemo judex in causa sua: no one should be a judge in his own case.

And Audi alteram partem: hear both sides before reaching a decision.

He persuaded the court that if the Attorney-General and the other members were allowed to sit in judgment over him, justice would become impossible because the outcome had already been predetermined.

On the other hand, the LPDC and the Attorney-General argued that the Committee was merely an administrative body and was therefore not strictly bound by the fair hearing provisions under Section 33(1) of the 1979 Constitution.

The battle eventually reached the Supreme Court.

In a landmark judgment delivered through Justice Anthony Nnaemezie Aniagolu, the Supreme Court agreed with Gani Fawehinmi.

The Court held that once an administrative body is empowered to determine issues affecting a person's livelihood, professional status, or civil rights, it must observe the principles of natural justice and guarantee fair hearing.

The Supreme Court went further to strongly criticize the Legal Practitioners Act of 1975 for creating a system where the Attorney-General could simultaneously be the accuser, the prosecutor, and the judge.

The Court prohibited the Panel from proceeding with the trial.

That was how Chief Gani Fawehinmi escaped those disciplinary measures.

The impact of that judgment did not end there.

The National Assembly later amended the Legal Practitioners Act, removing the Attorney-General of the Federation as Chairman of the LPDC.

That singular decision changed the disciplinary process for lawyers in Nigeria forever.

I am Ekene Aninze, Esq.

[Ènìyàn @Karptein]

@StanChartNG Please check your DM.
Will appreciate your quick response

[Ènìyàn @Karptein]

@StanChartNG Do you lot have a helpline that is actually manned because having to spend 20 minutes on phone waiting for someone to respond with no luck isn't good customer service.