Pointblanc Lawyer

Legal Practitioner| Football fanatic | Thinker & Rights Activist

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Life is a visit in a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

[Dr. Tunji Alausa @DrTunjiAlausa]

On the sidelines of the Education World Forum 2026 in London, I signed a landmark partnership with @coursera to launch the Digital Training Academy (DTA), a major initiative designed to equip Nigerian youths with globally competitive digital skills.

Through this programme, young Nigerians will receive world class training in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering and other high demand digital fields, while earning globally recognised certifications valued by employers across the world.

In a landmark investment under the Renewed Hope Agenda of President @officialABAT, GCFR, the Federal Government has fully funded 36,000 licences across Coursera and @pluralsight in the first year alone ensuring that financial barriers do not prevent any Nigerian youth from accessing world class digital education.

This is one of the largest government funded digital skills investments in Nigeria’s history.

The programme will be implemented in partnership with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), combining nationwide access with industry focused mentorship and support.

Digital competency is no longer optional. It is foundational. We are building a generation of young Nigerians that can compete, lead and thrive in the global digital economy.

My sincere appreciation to Coursera, NOUN and YABATECH for partnering with us to make this vision a reality.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

It's crazy how ponzy schemes keep reinventing themselves in different guides and nomenclatures.

[Senior Man @KingEsene]

Recently, a client reached out to me for a legal consultation and for the review of an agreement that bothers on a real estate investment scheme. As I was going thru the agreement, it occurred to me that I had come across a similar playbook before and then it hit me, OXFORD GROUP

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@Orguy @femmejola @NajeebAdamu1 To even think that just recently, 14 new judges were appointed to the FHC. Only one of the 14 is a practising lawyer. The rest are registrars and civil servants of a nomenclature I can't even remember.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

Addressed to Lord Voldemort—He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

[PUNUKA Attorneys & Solicitors @PunukaAttorneys]

PUBLIC NOTICE

#PunukaAttorneysAndSolicitors

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

14 judges and only one is a private practitioner. What are those registrars bringing to the bench? Active legal practitioners who encounter the rigors of the law on a daily basis are continuously denied opportunity on the bench, yet we marvel at the low quality of judgments.

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

CJN to swear in 14 Federal High Court judges (Full list)
https://t.co/41HMGnQKvW

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@ChrisWheatley What should've been a non-issue is what Rosenior ballooned into a major issue that amounted to disrespect. I wonder how he would respond to an actual disrespect. Probably get his boxing gloves on.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@UsmanAbidemiEsq MBA first. LLM later.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

I'll never forget the experience I had as an NYSC associate that made me become averse to litigation practice. I was given a dusty file that was not properly endorsed & told the usual "it's just for this and that". Got to Court & met an entirely diff scenario. Milord finished me.

[Ogundipe, Esq. @The_Ogundipe]

If I had an inkling that an application would warrant a judge getting mad at a colleague and dressing the colleague down, I would not push that colleague there. I won't even file such an application because no one should actively seek being embarrassed.

Generally, a lawyer shouldn't file a process that can provoke a judge's wrath, but if, for any reason, he does, the lawyer shouldn't push his colleagues at the bar to the line of fire.

Sign the process in your name. Go yourself. Go and take everything the judge has to throw at you. It is not part of the training that you should expose colleagues to needless and avoidable embarrassment. There's nothing good in that practice.

Received one very alarming application last year, and a lawyer of less than 1 year PC signed (was made to) it. I checked the name of the firm and saw that there are lawyers of up to 15 years at the bar there.

Why do we treat people like objects that can just be used for fun? "Junior" lawyers also have names and standing to earn and protect at the bar.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@Oluwanonso_Esq Was absolutely disgusted when I read those shocking claims. I've read too much of good writing to immediately equate a well-written essay as AI slop. I was even more disappointed that Destiny endorsed that claim. Never seen him moved by the unthinking herd. Well, he's human too.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@R04dman @Kinetic1One @Oluwanonso_Esq Please, ask him. Let him explain the science behind the turning of water into wine. That one is enough.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

Take home pay per month says a lot about a Firm. You can't pay such miserly amount as salary and then hide behind "quarterly benefits" to portray a good image. Pay good salaries, even if it affects benefits. Salaries are contractual rights while benefits are mere privileges.

[Suave Lawyer @jurist_oriko]

Afe Babalola & CO pays 145k monthly but profit sharing happens quarterly and it's usually huge. Monthly pay alone may not tell the true story for SOME law firms. Some law firms ni mo so o.

Except there are hidden stories you want to tell me about Ahmed Raji & CO. The baba dey try. I have someone working there.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

A lot of wicked things are perpetrated against employee lawyers by their Principals. If this is the current state of the profession, a future of compulsory 2 years pupillage is very grim. It would be tantamount to a death sentence for many young lawyers. Let young lawyers breathe

[Maruf Muhammed Esq @MarufMuhammed4]

A renowned SAN in Ibadan received #35m for the Osun State Governorship election petition and gave my friend who was a junior counsel in the firm that actively participated throughout #150,000.

My friend left litigation afterwards!! He didn't look back after he resigned from his law firm.

I heard his salary prior to that time was #50,000.

Law practice in Nigeria 😆 🤣 😂!

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@ecarg4l @OlanipekunTobiD Working in her sleep, perhaps. Very generous.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@fundzoflagos010 @barristerdrey This is the point that they all miss. Anything termed a blessing is a product of subjective judgment. Any attempt to pontificate an objective meaning to it will birth either a logical but unsound argument or a ridiculous one.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@Mrpossidez If I may elaborate further, you appear to conflate blessing with "good" and apply the same standards to both. A junkie might consider it a blessing—and rightly so—to receive free supply of angel dust, but is such a life appropriate (good) for anyone to WELCOME? No.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@Mrpossidez The problem, as I see it, is that we are striving for an objective definition of blessing. But this age long wisdom is instructive: "one man's meat is another man's poison." "Blessing," therefore, is subjective—it is perception. It is certainly not what you have defined up there.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@Kinetic1One @Oluwanonso_Esq "Most of the things..." Including raising of the dead, healing of diseases with words or simple touch, multiplying of food, turning water into wine, drying up and refilling of rivers?

Unless you want to reject the Bible in its entirety, you can't logically make such argument.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

@Kinetic1One @Oluwanonso_Esq By whose standard or definition?

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

Lord knows that my default response would be "Not in the slightest, your Lordship sir." God forbid that I stay quiet. I can't let my ancestors down because they passed down genius to me, not madness.

[Lawgressive Attorney @80s_Esq]

A judge in the FCT High Court, asking lawyers questions like “are you mad?” at the slightest provocation.

This is not the mutual respect between the bench and the bar we were taught in Law school.

[Pointblanc Lawyer @briggertron]

The long and short of the pupillage brouhaha is that while it is desirable, the present system doesn't support its fair application and effectiveness. Any attempt to institutionalise it as-is would simply result in the enslavement of young lawyers. No more, no less.