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[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

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[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@peng_writer https://t.co/cz4gyMs5QH
You can't maintain your position of seeing what the gov't did as a right thing to maintain sanity after someone had replied your post with this and you deliberately ignored and replied to all the insultive response. Again be constructive.

[Sidiq Shola @shola_sidiq]

@peng_writer The Kwara State government would do well to extend same energy to the ruling party in Kwara. The selective approach to justice is wrong and condemnable.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@peng_writer Lol, I owe you that, your reaction doesn't define my person.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@peng_writer you don't have to rate me for me to rate you and I don't think I have said anything insulting but if you find anything I have said insulting,I apologise. But constructively,and unless I'm too generous in my rating of your intellect,you can't be praising a gov't for doing wrong.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@HabeebOmosidi Again, most of us.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@HabeebOmosidi Most is the right word here QS.

[Ogundipe, Esq. @The_Ogundipe]

About 2 years ago, I observed water seeping from the floor in the living room. Initially, I thought that someone had poured water on the floor. I reached for the mop and cleaned it up, but the more mopping I did, the more water surfaced.

I called a plumber that had worked for me in the past. He was always reachable. I explained what I noticed to him and how it worried me to death that water was seeping out from the tiles in the sitting room floor.

He arrived about 20 minutes later. He stared longingly at the wall, grabbed two heavy tools, went down on one knee, and raised his mallet.

"Wait. What do you want to do?" I asked.

"We go break these tiles."

"The problem is from under?"

"I don't know. Na why we go break tiles make we find out."

"Are you sure that the problem is from the ground?"

"I no know. If we break this area and we no see anything, maybe we go break am dey trace am."

It felt like setting out to lose a lot for uncertainty. The house was not mine, and getting exactly the same tile in the market could pose a challenge. My concern was further deepened by the uncertainty expressed by the specialist I had engaged. What if we broke it and found nothing?

I asked him to leave it.

"Let me think about this. I will call you back."

I paid him for his time and watched as his motorcycle roared out of my compound.

I called an engineer who does regular construction work. I asked if he knew a competent plumber that he could vouch for. He said he knew one. He linked me up, and we agreed to meet a day later.

When the gentleman plumber arrived, the water had subsided. He listened to my concern and asked me to take him round the house. Like altar servers following the priest, I led the procession while he tailed me.

"Where does this pipe go?"

"This must be the controller for the toilet."

"This pipe takes the water from the washing machine down, abi?"

He kept asking and asserting as we moved round.

By the time we were done, he had figured out the problem.

"There was an initial plan to have a wash-hand spot here, because it is close to the place that should be the dining area. Maybe they changed their mind and blocked the pipe. I think the pipe is leaking."

"But the water is coming from the tiles, not the wall."

"Yes. If it gets too much, it goes down and forces its way up."

He brought out his machine, made a square mark on the wall, and cut neatly. Within 7 minutes, we saw a pipe. Indeed, it was sealed, but water was dropping. He fixed the issue and asked me to call a mason to do the plastering.

No broken tiles, no guesswork. Precision.

When he told me his fee, the "Nigerian" in me wanted to do what clients do to us.

"XYZ thousand kẹ? Something you did within 15 minutes. Just to break small wall and place a cap on the pipe?"

But I didn't.

I recognised expertise. I recognised precision. I recognised accurate diagnosis. I recognised a professional. I appreciated the comfort that his certainty and zero propensity for guesswork brought to me.

I paid him. He threw his crossbody bag, which had his tools in it, over his neck and bounced away from my house.

No car. No motorbike. No bicycle.

"You are charging me XYZ just for a legal opinion?"

"Haaa, you want me to pay that for CAC work?"

"I have never been asked for a consultation fee by any lawyer."

"Oh, you want me to pay just to look at this small document?"

"You're too expensive. My friend's lawyer charged one-third."

Fees are not just fees. When fees are charged, they often come with an insurance or assurance that is not spelt out.

They do not need to spend days on a task to earn premium fees. A 2-page opinion could carry more weight than a 30-page one, and whether a professional drives a car or not ultimately has no nexus with their competence.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

This man wanted me to review an agreement for 20-30k!
The agreement, AI generated, value of the contract is 33m+ (without VAT),
Lawyers dy see shege for client's hand in this country.

[Ogundipe, Esq. @The_Ogundipe]

About 2 years ago, I observed water seeping from the floor in the living room. Initially, I thought that someone had poured water on the floor. I reached for the mop and cleaned it up, but the more mopping I did, the more water surfaced.

I called a plumber that had worked for me in the past. He was always reachable. I explained what I noticed to him and how it worried me to death that water was seeping out from the tiles in the sitting room floor.

He arrived about 20 minutes later. He stared longingly at the wall, grabbed two heavy tools, went down on one knee, and raised his mallet.

"Wait. What do you want to do?" I asked.

"We go break these tiles."

"The problem is from under?"

"I don't know. Na why we go break tiles make we find out."

"Are you sure that the problem is from the ground?"

"I no know. If we break this area and we no see anything, maybe we go break am dey trace am."

It felt like setting out to lose a lot for uncertainty. The house was not mine, and getting exactly the same tile in the market could pose a challenge. My concern was further deepened by the uncertainty expressed by the specialist I had engaged. What if we broke it and found nothing?

I asked him to leave it.

"Let me think about this. I will call you back."

I paid him for his time and watched as his motorcycle roared out of my compound.

I called an engineer who does regular construction work. I asked if he knew a competent plumber that he could vouch for. He said he knew one. He linked me up, and we agreed to meet a day later.

When the gentleman plumber arrived, the water had subsided. He listened to my concern and asked me to take him round the house. Like altar servers following the priest, I led the procession while he tailed me.

"Where does this pipe go?"

"This must be the controller for the toilet."

"This pipe takes the water from the washing machine down, abi?"

He kept asking and asserting as we moved round.

By the time we were done, he had figured out the problem.

"There was an initial plan to have a wash-hand spot here, because it is close to the place that should be the dining area. Maybe they changed their mind and blocked the pipe. I think the pipe is leaking."

"But the water is coming from the tiles, not the wall."

"Yes. If it gets too much, it goes down and forces its way up."

He brought out his machine, made a square mark on the wall, and cut neatly. Within 7 minutes, we saw a pipe. Indeed, it was sealed, but water was dropping. He fixed the issue and asked me to call a mason to do the plastering.

No broken tiles, no guesswork. Precision.

When he told me his fee, the "Nigerian" in me wanted to do what clients do to us.

"XYZ thousand kẹ? Something you did within 15 minutes. Just to break small wall and place a cap on the pipe?"

But I didn't.

I recognised expertise. I recognised precision. I recognised accurate diagnosis. I recognised a professional. I appreciated the comfort that his certainty and zero propensity for guesswork brought to me.

I paid him. He threw his crossbody bag, which had his tools in it, over his neck and bounced away from my house.

No car. No motorbike. No bicycle.

"You are charging me XYZ just for a legal opinion?"

"Haaa, you want me to pay that for CAC work?"

"I have never been asked for a consultation fee by any lawyer."

"Oh, you want me to pay just to look at this small document?"

"You're too expensive. My friend's lawyer charged one-third."

Fees are not just fees. When fees are charged, they often come with an insurance or assurance that is not spelt out.

They do not need to spend days on a task to earn premium fees. A 2-page opinion could carry more weight than a 30-page one, and whether a professional drives a car or not ultimately has no nexus with their competence.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@Harmony_Vets BaarakaLlaahu fiikum

[Native Chief @Nativechieff]

There was a girl who once sent me a modeling contract to review.

I looked through the contract and saw that she was literally leasing her career to them for a full year.

All pictures and videos were owned solely by the company. She cannot leave before expiration of the contract without her paying about 500k.

She only gets a 20 percent commission from the modeling gigs and it's not even guaranteed that she will even get the gigs.

She also wasn't gonna have access to her own pictures to add to her portfolio even after the expiration of the contract.

Sadly, she said she was not gonna pay for the service. I genuinely hope she found someone to do it for free or else she should be seeing one or two shege by now. I wish her well sha

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

You don't really matter in the scheme of things. Hold your opinion to you, do your life with it and tell it to people who seek it, stop spreading virus to innocent souls around.

[Ebrima Sama😎🤴🏾 @sama_ebrima]

Enough to sacrifice a desire so close to the heart. However, I don’t agree with marrying a 2nd wife, unless it’s with the consent of the 1st , simply bcuz the 1st cannot have children. This is my opinion and twitter doesn’t allow the word limit for me to elaborately explain why

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

Izala(JIBWIS) have to be one of the most (if not the most) contradictory ideology.Because how on earth do you in the process of curbing an evil create another evil and portray it as an instrument to curb evil when in fact, it's propagating the very evil you are claiming it's curb

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@LakesydeRules 😆 🤣 😂

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@The_Yhunus Chicken
Pelar
Mata
Adekunle tv
Salo

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

For a government known for using prison and detention to deal with people who speak against/challe them, I'm uncomfortable @RealMallamSaliu is not taking this up and that lawyers around him have not seen to this, especially when it emanated from a live radio program on livestream

[SALAWU||OMOIYAONIPAKO @salawueedris1]

Wait, Sen. Saliu Mustapha wrote this letter to Governor AbdulRahaman in 2022? WOW!😮

Why is Sen. Saliu Mustapha not sticking to his words? What changes?

Power is indeed intoxicating.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

Lazy Nigerian youth may not be totally incorrect

[Iwuoha, Emmanuel Uchenna @uchenna_iwuoha]

@powerfulbadeeu There is no sustainability. It is better to earn below 500k in a Federal Government establishment than earn above that in a private sector. I mean in Nigeria unless it is abroad. If you are a Federal Government staff, you are sure of your pension, job security etc.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@ObeySegun2 @BigBadReni Of unknown. If they are right, and are also not guilty of anything, it's a fight worth fighting. It could cost them more years before graduating, yes, that's a possibility but the long term benefit is worth it.

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@ObeySegun2 @BigBadReni Lol,no one is saying students are not intimidated in Nigeria unis,but a 100 of you not graduating bcus a lecturer forgot to upload your result is already the worst that could happen.Whatever they are scared of in employing the service of a lawyer to fight for their right is fear

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@ObeySegun2 @WaliuTaofik So what in the quoted tweet you replied suggested that they tag the lecturer?

[Cooper Counsel ⚖ @el_muaddab]

@AwhotuVictor @Engr_Ashile How?
What are you even saying,
Tire is not what?
Talk something else jor