Readers’ Pavilion
KAYODE-OGUNMEKAN J
The Editor,
There is a person who has been pursuing Letters of Administration for several months. They have actually reached the final stage-remaining only for the Probate Judge to sign the Letter of Administration. But for several weeks now, even months, the P.J has not done so. I learned that the P.J is, Justice Kayode-Ogunmekan, whom nobody has seen for quite some time now. The person affected feels so frustrated about this situation that he thinks of writing a petition to the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - The solution to the problem is to have a new P.J. That, I don’t think is too difficult for the authorities to do.
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
You know I really have interest in the Squib and so want the best for you. Considering your case with the Disciplinary Committee in Abuja, I advice caution on your part. You see the world is difficult and bad and the powers that be are not interested in justice and that things are done right. I am speaking from experience, those in authorities can go to any length to oppress, and afflict those they have marked down. I want you to think of your wife, your children in this your struggle, so that their interest will not suffer.
Editor’s Note: - Sir, thank you for your fatherly advice. But let me make some prophecies here
(i) The Lord will not forsake me or the Squib and will not make me prey for those seeking for my life and career
(ii) I will bury my enemies. Mark my words, I will be there, at their funeral ceremonies, thanking God with others for “their well spent lives”
(iii) The Squib will go from strength to strength and my legal career will blossom greatly. Sir, don’t fear for me. The Heavens, Will Not Fall!
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
How did your case go on 10th November 2008, before the Disciplinary Committee?
Editor’s Note: - It went no where. The Committee didn’t seat. Couldn’t form quorum.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You are making a lot of money from the Squib. When I first knew you, you weren’t wearing silk ties. The story is different now.
Editor’s Note: - Are you sure of your facts?
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
18TH NOVEMBER 2008
READER’S PAVILION
SQUIB
The Editor,
When I saw some lawyers this morning, when I came to the court the way they were dressed I said thank God, my father forbade me from reading law. But when I met you at Bar Centre, I changed my mind, more so, when I saw your picture in that beautiful suit on the cover of the Squib Magazine. But I’ll like to know, is it only from law you earn your money?
Editor’s Note: - Yes
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
It is not our prayer that you should be disbarred as your enemies are planning. You have been a pillar of support for us staff of the Lagos State Judiciary.
Editor’s Note: - Trust God, I’ll overcome.
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
Your ordeal in the hands of the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee has strongly convinced me that the struggle against reactionaries in the temple of justice is a must.
Editor’s Note: - You can’t be more right!
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
I have just read the current edition of the Squib. A preliminary objection would get those NBA charges quashed on the grounds that you were not practicing as a lawyer when you published the Magazine. Secondly, Eri J’s faux pas should disqualify him on grounds of likelihood of bias. Do not relent.
Editor’s Note: - Relent? Woe unto me if I dare relent!
D.P.O ELERE
The Editor,
I have before me now, a magazine called the Squib. I am the D.P.O of Elere Police Station, Agege. Are you the editor of the magazine? Did you conduct an interview with a policeman on this matter? The man is before me and he is denying ever talking to you. I want to tell you that the police-man is a constable not a corporal as you wrote. Even then you should know that a constable has no authority to speak on police matters. And how can you write a story based on an interview with a constable? Well I know what to do about you.
Editor’s Note: - Sir, I wish you God speed.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You appear so debonair, these days. I think I need to have your wife’s phone number (so that I can warn her about girls who may be eyeing you.)
Editor’s Note: - Ibiyemi’s number is 08023456789. Ibitola’s number is 08098765432. Please call them now. Cheers.
1968 Law School Set
The Editor,
I read your story on the 1968 set of the Nigerian Law School with interest. My father was a member of that set. He is no. 30 in the list published in the SQUIB. But he is late now. I can also confirm the demise of the following lawyers in their set who were close to my father.
Chief Adegboyega Adeleke. No. 51 on the list, Mr. Mabo M.O Past President Lagos NBA. No. 72, Mr. Omotayo – No. 81, Chief Lanre Sofolahan No. 94, Alhaji Jeleel Oshodi No. 98, Prof B.O Iluyomade, Late Authority on Administrative Law, Professor of Law (University of Ife) Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. He was serving as Attorney –General of the Old Ondo State at the time of his death in 1987 – No. 63, Chief Keji J.O Former Elder, Ikeja Branch No. 65, C. N Okolo, Past Attorney-General defunct Bendel State – No. 9 and Alhaji A.G.O Ajimotokan No 35. for many years external counsel to Federal Mortgage Bank.
Some of those of his set still living include-:
Chief Badru Olaogun is alive and well and he is now a life Bencher and has been so since 2007 and Prof J.O Fabunmi – Lecturer in Equity and Trust for several years at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Author of Equity and Trust in Nigeria.
Ademola Adewale Esq.
Editor’s Note:- ‘Prof,’ thank you for the information.
SQUIB
The Editor,
When I saw some lawyers this morning, when I came to the court the way they were dressed I said thank God, my father forbade me from reading law. But when I met you at Bar Centre, I changed my mind, more so, when I saw your picture in that beautiful suit on the cover of the Squib Magazine. But I’ll like to know, is it only from law you earn your money?
Editor’s Note: - Yes
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
It is not our prayer that you should be disbarred as your enemies are planning. You have been a pillar of support for us staff of the Lagos State Judiciary.
Editor’s Note: - Trust God, I’ll overcome.
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
Your ordeal in the hands of the Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee has strongly convinced me that the struggle against reactionaries in the temple of justice is a must.
Editor’s Note: - You can’t be more right!
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
I have just read the current edition of the Squib. A preliminary objection would get those NBA charges quashed on the grounds that you were not practicing as a lawyer when you published the Magazine. Secondly, Eri J’s faux pas should disqualify him on grounds of likelihood of bias. Do not relent.
Editor’s Note: - Relent? Woe unto me if I dare relent!
D.P.O ELERE
The Editor,
I have before me now, a magazine called the Squib. I am the D.P.O of Elere Police Station, Agege. Are you the editor of the magazine? Did you conduct an interview with a policeman on this matter? The man is before me and he is denying ever talking to you. I want to tell you that the police-man is a constable not a corporal as you wrote. Even then you should know that a constable has no authority to speak on police matters. And how can you write a story based on an interview with a constable? Well I know what to do about you.
Editor’s Note: - Sir, I wish you God speed.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You appear so debonair, these days. I think I need to have your wife’s phone number (so that I can warn her about girls who may be eyeing you.)
Editor’s Note: - Ibiyemi’s number is 08023456789. Ibitola’s number is 08098765432. Please call them now. Cheers.
1968 Law School Set
The Editor,
I read your story on the 1968 set of the Nigerian Law School with interest. My father was a member of that set. He is no. 30 in the list published in the SQUIB. But he is late now. I can also confirm the demise of the following lawyers in their set who were close to my father.
Chief Adegboyega Adeleke. No. 51 on the list, Mr. Mabo M.O Past President Lagos NBA. No. 72, Mr. Omotayo – No. 81, Chief Lanre Sofolahan No. 94, Alhaji Jeleel Oshodi No. 98, Prof B.O Iluyomade, Late Authority on Administrative Law, Professor of Law (University of Ife) Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. He was serving as Attorney –General of the Old Ondo State at the time of his death in 1987 – No. 63, Chief Keji J.O Former Elder, Ikeja Branch No. 65, C. N Okolo, Past Attorney-General defunct Bendel State – No. 9 and Alhaji A.G.O Ajimotokan No 35. for many years external counsel to Federal Mortgage Bank.
Some of those of his set still living include-:
Chief Badru Olaogun is alive and well and he is now a life Bencher and has been so since 2007 and Prof J.O Fabunmi – Lecturer in Equity and Trust for several years at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Author of Equity and Trust in Nigeria.
Ademola Adewale Esq.
Editor’s Note:- ‘Prof,’ thank you for the information.
Monday, November 17, 2008
10th NOV 2008
THE READERS PAVILION
SQUIB SUPPLY
The Editor,
I don't like missing any edition of the Squib-but the problem is that I don't come to the Ikeja High Court every week. I don't mind having the editions in arrears. You know why? If any body wants to know about any developments in the Lagos State Judiciary-then the Squib is a must read.
The Editor's Note: Thank you for your kind appreciation. For you and other readers like you, we don't mind creating drop centres at the Lagos and Ikeja High Courts as well as the Sabo Magistrate Court and the Federal High Court Ikoyi Lagos.
SEGUN RAJI
The Editor,
I read the story about Segun Raji in your last edition. The young man is advised to turn over a new leaf, otherwise he is on the path of self destruction. Hardly do lawyers who are prepared to venture into any schemes, no matter how risky or unprofessional end well. At first they may appear to be prospering, but at the end they crash-land.
Editor's Note: Those who have ears, let them hear!
SQUIB'S CASE
The Editor,
What's actually happening in that your case before the Legal Practitioners' Disciplinary Committee? All along I had thought the matter was over until I saw it recently in the newspaper that it was coming up for defence on the 10th November 2008.
Look, I am worried. Has the prosecution ever opened their case? Did they bring any witness? Are they saying that even without the prosecution stating their case you still must come to defend yourself? My brother, I think there is a big danger planned for you.
Editor's Note: We shall overcome by the grace of God.
SQUIB
The Editor,
May I draw your attention to the fact that your case-law pages in the last edition (3rd November 2008) were badly printed, so much that they were unreadable.
Editor's Note: I've checked with our vendors and correspondents. The problem is not general. Please return the bad copy and get a good one. Thank you.
SQUIB SUPPLY
The Editor,
I don't like missing any edition of the Squib-but the problem is that I don't come to the Ikeja High Court every week. I don't mind having the editions in arrears. You know why? If any body wants to know about any developments in the Lagos State Judiciary-then the Squib is a must read.
The Editor's Note: Thank you for your kind appreciation. For you and other readers like you, we don't mind creating drop centres at the Lagos and Ikeja High Courts as well as the Sabo Magistrate Court and the Federal High Court Ikoyi Lagos.
SEGUN RAJI
The Editor,
I read the story about Segun Raji in your last edition. The young man is advised to turn over a new leaf, otherwise he is on the path of self destruction. Hardly do lawyers who are prepared to venture into any schemes, no matter how risky or unprofessional end well. At first they may appear to be prospering, but at the end they crash-land.
Editor's Note: Those who have ears, let them hear!
SQUIB'S CASE
The Editor,
What's actually happening in that your case before the Legal Practitioners' Disciplinary Committee? All along I had thought the matter was over until I saw it recently in the newspaper that it was coming up for defence on the 10th November 2008.
Look, I am worried. Has the prosecution ever opened their case? Did they bring any witness? Are they saying that even without the prosecution stating their case you still must come to defend yourself? My brother, I think there is a big danger planned for you.
Editor's Note: We shall overcome by the grace of God.
SQUIB
The Editor,
May I draw your attention to the fact that your case-law pages in the last edition (3rd November 2008) were badly printed, so much that they were unreadable.
Editor's Note: I've checked with our vendors and correspondents. The problem is not general. Please return the bad copy and get a good one. Thank you.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
November 3 2008
READERS’ PAVILION
IRREDENTISM
The Editor,
You are a brilliant young man and you will not suffer calamity or slip on banana peels. But I have a grudge against you and if I don't tell you, I'll be failing in my duty.
In a gathering where the likes of Chief Bamidele Aiku SAN and I were, you described us as 'irredentist.' My prayer is that one day you will become an elder and excel even beyond our marks.
It is not right however for a youngster to pour abuses or insults on elders on the pages of newspapers.
Chief Wole Olanipekun S.A.N
Editor's Note:- In its semantic habitat an din usage, 'irredentist' is not a term of abuse and I have not used it to abuse you or your group. I used the term to describe and classify the colour, thrust and theme of your group's brand of bar-politics in the last seven years.
G.O.K
The Editor,
In your last edition, you reported Tunji Ayanlaja SAN as saying at a dinner, that his mentor was Chief G.O.K Ajayi SAN who in 1972 gave him £25 to celebrate his call to the bar. I can tell you that the Chief has not changed in that regard. One of my friends who did her chambers attachment in his office said when the programme ended, G.O.K gave them each N50, 000:00 and flight ticket back to Abuja.
My friend said she was completely stunned by the kind gesture of the Chief and it took her a while to realise that the gifts were for real. She said she sold her flight ticket and went to Abuja via “night bus.” What a nice man the Chief is.
Editor's Note: - Are you telling me?
IRREDENTISM
The Editor,
You are a brilliant young man and you will not suffer calamity or slip on banana peels. But I have a grudge against you and if I don't tell you, I'll be failing in my duty.
In a gathering where the likes of Chief Bamidele Aiku SAN and I were, you described us as 'irredentist.' My prayer is that one day you will become an elder and excel even beyond our marks.
It is not right however for a youngster to pour abuses or insults on elders on the pages of newspapers.
Chief Wole Olanipekun S.A.N
Editor's Note:- In its semantic habitat an din usage, 'irredentist' is not a term of abuse and I have not used it to abuse you or your group. I used the term to describe and classify the colour, thrust and theme of your group's brand of bar-politics in the last seven years.
G.O.K
The Editor,
In your last edition, you reported Tunji Ayanlaja SAN as saying at a dinner, that his mentor was Chief G.O.K Ajayi SAN who in 1972 gave him £25 to celebrate his call to the bar. I can tell you that the Chief has not changed in that regard. One of my friends who did her chambers attachment in his office said when the programme ended, G.O.K gave them each N50, 000:00 and flight ticket back to Abuja.
My friend said she was completely stunned by the kind gesture of the Chief and it took her a while to realise that the gifts were for real. She said she sold her flight ticket and went to Abuja via “night bus.” What a nice man the Chief is.
Editor's Note: - Are you telling me?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Vol 9 No 5 20th Oct, 2008
READERS’ PAVILION
SQUIB BASHER
The Editor,
I hope you didn’t mind all the snide remarks of Atilade J. against your person. We know top quality judges in the Lagos State Judiciary and she is not one of them. She said no junior can gain from your chambers, but what can anyone gain from her court? And, she has only played into your hands by her comments which clearly showed she is already prejudiced against you and your client.
Editor’s Note:-We wait and see.
FAKE LAW
The Editor,
I am vindicated! When I came across the so called Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2008, I know it was a fake law. The poor expressions in it gave it away as a fake document.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
FAKE LAW
The Editor,
You are doing quite well. But for you we won’t know that the 2008 Fundamental Right (Enforcement Procedure Rules) is a fake law.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
Please check page 25 of the Punch Newspaper of today. I saw your name as one of those to appear before the Disciplinary Committee of the Body of Benchers. But I had thought that the case was long over and done with
Editor’s Note: - Mark my words, the case is over, really.
SQUIB BASHER
The Editor,
I hope you didn’t mind all the snide remarks of Atilade J. against your person. We know top quality judges in the Lagos State Judiciary and she is not one of them. She said no junior can gain from your chambers, but what can anyone gain from her court? And, she has only played into your hands by her comments which clearly showed she is already prejudiced against you and your client.
Editor’s Note:-We wait and see.
FAKE LAW
The Editor,
I am vindicated! When I came across the so called Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2008, I know it was a fake law. The poor expressions in it gave it away as a fake document.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
FAKE LAW
The Editor,
You are doing quite well. But for you we won’t know that the 2008 Fundamental Right (Enforcement Procedure Rules) is a fake law.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
SQUIB CASE
The Editor,
Please check page 25 of the Punch Newspaper of today. I saw your name as one of those to appear before the Disciplinary Committee of the Body of Benchers. But I had thought that the case was long over and done with
Editor’s Note: - Mark my words, the case is over, really.
Monday, October 20, 2008
22ND SEPTEMBER EDITION
THE READERS’ PAVILION
SQUIB
The Editor,
I have just finished reading all the episodes. I am indeed very impressed. This is a lot of hard work putting all these together. How you guys can keep up with every single event process and even every word uttered beats me. It must have been a very, very tight week and presumably be the reason why some of the favourites are absent. Well done! My brother, may your vision for the future come to pass and may the magazine grow to be as and even surpassing your dreams.
Funsho Adeniyi
(UK based Squib online reader)
Editor’s Note: My sister, keep reading and we will keep squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
By the way, how far has the authorities gone with your case before the Disciplinary Committee? Has Justice Sotuminu ever appeared to prosecute the case all these years?
Editor’s Note: No.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I salute you the Lord Deming of the Judiciary. Don’t scoff at the idea because one day you’ll end up on the bench.
Editor’s Note: Sorry, can I laugh out loud?
ADEKUNLE OJO
The Editor,
So, Adekunle Ojo is now the 2nd Vice-President of the NBA? Well, after he has ‘eaten’ our money in Ikeja bar as chairman, why won’t he have enough money to campaign for bigger posts in the NBA?
Editor’s Note: Are you sure this snide talk is not from ‘bad belle?’
ADEKUNLE OJO
The Editor,
As the kingmaker, please tell us when Adekunle Ojo will become the president of the NBA? In the next two or three seasons?
Editor’s Note: Whether Ojo will ever be president and when that will be or not be is only known by God, the only and true kingmaker.
ADEKUNLE OJO
The Editor,
Soon Adekunle Ojo will bag the Senior Advocate of Nigeria award, now that he has become the 2nd Vice-President of the NBA.
Editor’s Note: Amen!
EGBE AMOFIN YORUBA
The Editor,
If Chief Bamidele Aiku SAN of Egbe Amofin Yoruba sees you he will kill you, considering the heavy way you descended on his organization in the latest edition of the squib. You are ever labeling the Egbe a tribal irredentist group.
Editor’s Note: We shall all die!
EGBE AMOFIN YORUBA
The Editor,
I do not agree with your description of the Egbe Amofin Yoruba as a Yoruba irredentist group. Where is their irredentism? They supported A. B. Mahmoud against Bayo Ojo San in 2004 NBA Presidential race. They did not even allow the man to address them. When Sotuminu C.J was harassing you, was the NBA not part of her instruments? The secretary of the Bar Dele Adesina SAN who initiated the proceeding is a Yoruba. The President of the bar then, Wole Olanipekun, is a Yoruba. The Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, Chief Bandele Aiku SAN is a Yoruba. All of them are members of the Egbe Amofin and none of them could prevent you from being dragged before the Disciplinary Committee of the Body of Benchers, when it was clear that there was no real case against you. Yet you yourself you are Yoruba.
The Egbe is only Yoruba friendly to those Yoruba lawyers the ruling clique there likes. They are not for all Yoruba lawyers. So you even glorify them by calling them Yoruba Irredentist group.
Editor’s Note: Since you’ve citied me as an example it illustrate your point, I have no further comment.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I have just finished reading all the episodes. I am indeed very impressed. This is a lot of hard work putting all these together. How you guys can keep up with every single event process and even every word uttered beats me. It must have been a very, very tight week and presumably be the reason why some of the favourites are absent. Well done! My brother, may your vision for the future come to pass and may the magazine grow to be as and even surpassing your dreams.
Funsho Adeniyi
(UK based Squib online reader)
Editor’s Note: My sister, keep reading and we will keep squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
By the way, how far has the authorities gone with your case before the Disciplinary Committee? Has Justice Sotuminu ever appeared to prosecute the case all these years?
Editor’s Note: No.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I salute you the Lord Deming of the Judiciary. Don’t scoff at the idea because one day you’ll end up on the bench.
Editor’s Note: Sorry, can I laugh out loud?
ADEKUNLE OJO
The Editor,
So, Adekunle Ojo is now the 2nd Vice-President of the NBA? Well, after he has ‘eaten’ our money in Ikeja bar as chairman, why won’t he have enough money to campaign for bigger posts in the NBA?
Editor’s Note: Are you sure this snide talk is not from ‘bad belle?’
ADEKUNLE OJO
The Editor,
As the kingmaker, please tell us when Adekunle Ojo will become the president of the NBA? In the next two or three seasons?
Editor’s Note: Whether Ojo will ever be president and when that will be or not be is only known by God, the only and true kingmaker.
ADEKUNLE OJO
The Editor,
Soon Adekunle Ojo will bag the Senior Advocate of Nigeria award, now that he has become the 2nd Vice-President of the NBA.
Editor’s Note: Amen!
EGBE AMOFIN YORUBA
The Editor,
If Chief Bamidele Aiku SAN of Egbe Amofin Yoruba sees you he will kill you, considering the heavy way you descended on his organization in the latest edition of the squib. You are ever labeling the Egbe a tribal irredentist group.
Editor’s Note: We shall all die!
EGBE AMOFIN YORUBA
The Editor,
I do not agree with your description of the Egbe Amofin Yoruba as a Yoruba irredentist group. Where is their irredentism? They supported A. B. Mahmoud against Bayo Ojo San in 2004 NBA Presidential race. They did not even allow the man to address them. When Sotuminu C.J was harassing you, was the NBA not part of her instruments? The secretary of the Bar Dele Adesina SAN who initiated the proceeding is a Yoruba. The President of the bar then, Wole Olanipekun, is a Yoruba. The Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, Chief Bandele Aiku SAN is a Yoruba. All of them are members of the Egbe Amofin and none of them could prevent you from being dragged before the Disciplinary Committee of the Body of Benchers, when it was clear that there was no real case against you. Yet you yourself you are Yoruba.
The Egbe is only Yoruba friendly to those Yoruba lawyers the ruling clique there likes. They are not for all Yoruba lawyers. So you even glorify them by calling them Yoruba Irredentist group.
Editor’s Note: Since you’ve citied me as an example it illustrate your point, I have no further comment.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
SEPTEMBER 15 2008
READERS’ PAVILION
The Editor,
You are gradually becoming a force to be reckoned with in the NBA, as a Kingmaker. In Ikeja here you backed Dave Ajetomobi to the hilt in the branch election in June and he became the chairman. At the national level, you went out all the way for Adekunle Ojo for 2nd Vice-President and he too won.
You have to ensure that all your candidates do well in office particularly here in Ikeja. What I particularly admire is your bold and very open support for your choices. Thankfully God crowned your efforts with success.
Editor’s Note: - Thank you sir, but Ajetomobi and Ojo victories were ensured by God and a group of like-minds, not a single individual.
KINGMAKER
The Editor,
Behold, the man who almost single-handedly installed our new second Vice-President!
Mohamed Adoki S.A.N
Editor’s Note: - But that’s simply not true!
DENNIS AGBAGA
The Editor,
I hope you are satisfied, happy now that your candidate Adekunle Ojo won the 2nd Vice-Presidency. And thank you for your campaign of calumny against me.
Dennis Agbaga
Runner – up in the Publicity Secretary NBA Election
Editor’s Note:- Campaign of calumny against you? You are entitled to your “jaundiced” opinion. We predicted that for some reasons you would not likely win the election and you did not. That’s what you call campaign of calumny?
PUBLISHER
The Editor,
I really doff my hat to you. You are still very much in this business of publishing law magazine, long after we others have folded up. Yet you publish weekly, even quarterly. What’s the secret? You have to hold a seminar for us. Well done!
Geoffrey Oputa
Publisher, Justice Watch Magazine
Editor’s Note: - Thank you.
G.C IGBOKWE
The Editor,
In the pretence of bar journalism, you have once again shown your self as a hungry, puritanical mercenary with little or no sense of value for name or character. You do not have to malign my personality to do the bidding of your pay masters.
G.C Igbokwe (General Secretary Candidate)
Editor’s Note: - We predicted that you were unlikely to win the elections for certain reasons but you took the simple truth for a campaign of calumny. Now that you came distant forth in the race with only 48 votes, not even up to 5% of the total votes cast, can you accept the reality and correctness of our analysis? Well, better luck next time!
The Editor,
You are gradually becoming a force to be reckoned with in the NBA, as a Kingmaker. In Ikeja here you backed Dave Ajetomobi to the hilt in the branch election in June and he became the chairman. At the national level, you went out all the way for Adekunle Ojo for 2nd Vice-President and he too won.
You have to ensure that all your candidates do well in office particularly here in Ikeja. What I particularly admire is your bold and very open support for your choices. Thankfully God crowned your efforts with success.
Editor’s Note: - Thank you sir, but Ajetomobi and Ojo victories were ensured by God and a group of like-minds, not a single individual.
KINGMAKER
The Editor,
Behold, the man who almost single-handedly installed our new second Vice-President!
Mohamed Adoki S.A.N
Editor’s Note: - But that’s simply not true!
DENNIS AGBAGA
The Editor,
I hope you are satisfied, happy now that your candidate Adekunle Ojo won the 2nd Vice-Presidency. And thank you for your campaign of calumny against me.
Dennis Agbaga
Runner – up in the Publicity Secretary NBA Election
Editor’s Note:- Campaign of calumny against you? You are entitled to your “jaundiced” opinion. We predicted that for some reasons you would not likely win the election and you did not. That’s what you call campaign of calumny?
PUBLISHER
The Editor,
I really doff my hat to you. You are still very much in this business of publishing law magazine, long after we others have folded up. Yet you publish weekly, even quarterly. What’s the secret? You have to hold a seminar for us. Well done!
Geoffrey Oputa
Publisher, Justice Watch Magazine
Editor’s Note: - Thank you.
G.C IGBOKWE
The Editor,
In the pretence of bar journalism, you have once again shown your self as a hungry, puritanical mercenary with little or no sense of value for name or character. You do not have to malign my personality to do the bidding of your pay masters.
G.C Igbokwe (General Secretary Candidate)
Editor’s Note: - We predicted that you were unlikely to win the elections for certain reasons but you took the simple truth for a campaign of calumny. Now that you came distant forth in the race with only 48 votes, not even up to 5% of the total votes cast, can you accept the reality and correctness of our analysis? Well, better luck next time!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
July 7 2008
THE READERS’ PAVILION
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I want to congratulate you on the just concluded election. You stuck out your neck for your candidate Dave Ajetomobi and he won. It would have been disastrous if he had lost.
Editor's Note: - Life would go on.
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I believe you are a great leader and a kingmaker too. I congratulate you on the success of your man Dave Ajetomobi as the new chair of the Ikeja branch. I think in the next dispensation you should go for one of the vice-chairmen positions and then the year after, the chair, proper.
Editor's Note: - Really?
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I saw you lying flat on the table for a photograph with the winners of the last election at the Onyx Plaza. You must publish that photograph O!
Editor's Note: - You won't see that pose. Other happy supporters joined on. They covered me.
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I was told you are so passionate about Dave Ajetomobi's victory in this election because your caucus as anointed you to succeed him as chairman in 2010.
Editor's Note: - Big, fat, monstrous lie!
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I want to thank you for deploying all your arsenals in the battle to decide who becomes the new chairman of NBA Ikeja branch.
Editor's Note: - I think we had better thank God instead.
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
Your Squib personality makes magistrates and even judges sit up. You may not know this. When you are around, the message gets passed quickly around that “hush, hush, the Squib is around. 'Olofofo', I bow and tremble!”
Editor's Note: - For a mere gecko, you tremble?
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I know the reason why you'll never contest any elections in the NBA - you've abused everybody all round and so nobody will vote for you.
Editor's Note: - Even geckos?
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I want to congratulate you on the just concluded election. You stuck out your neck for your candidate Dave Ajetomobi and he won. It would have been disastrous if he had lost.
Editor's Note: - Life would go on.
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I believe you are a great leader and a kingmaker too. I congratulate you on the success of your man Dave Ajetomobi as the new chair of the Ikeja branch. I think in the next dispensation you should go for one of the vice-chairmen positions and then the year after, the chair, proper.
Editor's Note: - Really?
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I saw you lying flat on the table for a photograph with the winners of the last election at the Onyx Plaza. You must publish that photograph O!
Editor's Note: - You won't see that pose. Other happy supporters joined on. They covered me.
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I was told you are so passionate about Dave Ajetomobi's victory in this election because your caucus as anointed you to succeed him as chairman in 2010.
Editor's Note: - Big, fat, monstrous lie!
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I want to thank you for deploying all your arsenals in the battle to decide who becomes the new chairman of NBA Ikeja branch.
Editor's Note: - I think we had better thank God instead.
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
Your Squib personality makes magistrates and even judges sit up. You may not know this. When you are around, the message gets passed quickly around that “hush, hush, the Squib is around. 'Olofofo', I bow and tremble!”
Editor's Note: - For a mere gecko, you tremble?
TIGERS' ELECTION
The Editor,
I know the reason why you'll never contest any elections in the NBA - you've abused everybody all round and so nobody will vote for you.
Editor's Note: - Even geckos?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
June 30 2008
THE READERS’ PAVILION
ALADEJOBI
The Editor,
Just this morning, I saw Jide Aladejobi in court robed. When I challenged him after his appearance in court, he said that the order of disbarment on him by the body of benchers has been set aside. He told me that even though he told you about the new siutation, you refused to publish same in the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - If you are telling the truth, my response is this, “Aladejobi never told me anything.” But by the way we published his story nonetheless. I wonder why the lie.
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
I want you to continue to give us an update about the case of the auxiliary sheriff who was murdered by the LASTMA staff. The man should not just die like that.
Editor’s Note: - We shall.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You are a king-maker in the Ikeja bar, when will you move up yourself?
Editor’s Note: - Where’s up?
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
I know that man, the Judiciary Staff who was killed by LASTMA staff will just die in vain, the government or the judiciary will cover up the case. That’s why the killers have not been apprehended.
Editor’s Note: - Sad, really.
DISQUALIFICATION BLUES
The Editor,
You are one of those who worked hard for my disqualification from the race for the post of Publicity Secretary of the Ikeja bar, you and Dare Akande, but I have no hard feelings towards any one. And I concede that most of your reports about me was fair, except only when you wrongly indicated that my rival Lateef Abdusalam is my senior at the bar. He is actually my junior.
However I have accepted my disqualification in good faith, although I have written a protest letter to the Electoral Committee. If I give you a copy of the letter, will you publish it?
S.O Omodara
Editor’s Note: - Bring it.
ALADEJOBI
The Editor,
Just this morning, I saw Jide Aladejobi in court robed. When I challenged him after his appearance in court, he said that the order of disbarment on him by the body of benchers has been set aside. He told me that even though he told you about the new siutation, you refused to publish same in the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - If you are telling the truth, my response is this, “Aladejobi never told me anything.” But by the way we published his story nonetheless. I wonder why the lie.
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
I want you to continue to give us an update about the case of the auxiliary sheriff who was murdered by the LASTMA staff. The man should not just die like that.
Editor’s Note: - We shall.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You are a king-maker in the Ikeja bar, when will you move up yourself?
Editor’s Note: - Where’s up?
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
I know that man, the Judiciary Staff who was killed by LASTMA staff will just die in vain, the government or the judiciary will cover up the case. That’s why the killers have not been apprehended.
Editor’s Note: - Sad, really.
DISQUALIFICATION BLUES
The Editor,
You are one of those who worked hard for my disqualification from the race for the post of Publicity Secretary of the Ikeja bar, you and Dare Akande, but I have no hard feelings towards any one. And I concede that most of your reports about me was fair, except only when you wrongly indicated that my rival Lateef Abdusalam is my senior at the bar. He is actually my junior.
However I have accepted my disqualification in good faith, although I have written a protest letter to the Electoral Committee. If I give you a copy of the letter, will you publish it?
S.O Omodara
Editor’s Note: - Bring it.
Monday, June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008
THE READERS’ PAVILION
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
No other newspaper published the story of how LASTMA staff killed Mr. Lateef Jogunomi in cold blood but the Squib did. What we heard was that the Governor, Raji Fashola S.A.N had gone round to lobby newspapers to drop the story. Well done.
Editor's Note:- Is that?
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
The LASTMA staff who killed Mr. Lateef Jogunomi should not be allowed to go scot free. Many of these LASTMA staff are thugs in uniform. When we took Jogunomi to the mortuary I was there. They showed us two other corpses, people also killed in separate incidents involving LASTMA staff.
Editor's Note:- Terrible!
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
I feel very upset about the death of Mr. Lateef Jogunomi the Sheriff's auxiliary. In modern day Nigeria how can a citizen just be killed like that? His killers must be brought to book. They must be prosecuted, because if this type of a thing should go on unchecked, anybody can become a victim. I'm interested in getting involved in any effort to get justice for Late Jogunomi. This is my card, call me anytime you people are ready.
Editor's Note:- We too are on the stand-by.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Let's just take it that you are God-sent to the Lagos State Judiciary. But for the Squib we'll never have known about all these terrible misdeeds going on in the system. Really the worth of your contribution cannot be appreciated fully too, until maybe the next thirty, or even fifty years time.
You see way back in the late 19th century Abraham Lincoln, American president, signed the emancipation law to free blacks from the shackles of slavery, and nearly two hundred years later, a person of African descent is about to occupy the very same White House which Lincoln occupied. My prayer is that God will continue to protect you and yours.
Editor's Note: - Thank you and may God continue to bless you too.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I believe you are doing a very good job in the judiciary, though some judges will not like to hear this. Your magazine act as a check and all powers and authorities needs certain checks, otherwise the office holder will become arrogant and all too knowing which is not good for any one at all.
Editor's Note:- Thank you.
CIVIL PROCEDURE REVIEW
The Editor,
Are you aware of the effort of the government (the Ministry of Justice) to do a review of the 2004 Civil Procedure Rules? And if you are aware, what is your magazine doing nothing about it? Even if the bars in Lagos State, including the one you people call Tiger branch (although it's been acting like sheep branch for some time now) are acting unconcerned, your magazine should not be like that.
You ought to galvanize interests about the review in lawyers. You should let people know what's going on and ask their opinions and contributions, so that the review will be more robust.
Editor's Note: - We shall do so.
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
No other newspaper published the story of how LASTMA staff killed Mr. Lateef Jogunomi in cold blood but the Squib did. What we heard was that the Governor, Raji Fashola S.A.N had gone round to lobby newspapers to drop the story. Well done.
Editor's Note:- Is that?
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
The LASTMA staff who killed Mr. Lateef Jogunomi should not be allowed to go scot free. Many of these LASTMA staff are thugs in uniform. When we took Jogunomi to the mortuary I was there. They showed us two other corpses, people also killed in separate incidents involving LASTMA staff.
Editor's Note:- Terrible!
DEAD SHERIFF
The Editor,
I feel very upset about the death of Mr. Lateef Jogunomi the Sheriff's auxiliary. In modern day Nigeria how can a citizen just be killed like that? His killers must be brought to book. They must be prosecuted, because if this type of a thing should go on unchecked, anybody can become a victim. I'm interested in getting involved in any effort to get justice for Late Jogunomi. This is my card, call me anytime you people are ready.
Editor's Note:- We too are on the stand-by.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Let's just take it that you are God-sent to the Lagos State Judiciary. But for the Squib we'll never have known about all these terrible misdeeds going on in the system. Really the worth of your contribution cannot be appreciated fully too, until maybe the next thirty, or even fifty years time.
You see way back in the late 19th century Abraham Lincoln, American president, signed the emancipation law to free blacks from the shackles of slavery, and nearly two hundred years later, a person of African descent is about to occupy the very same White House which Lincoln occupied. My prayer is that God will continue to protect you and yours.
Editor's Note: - Thank you and may God continue to bless you too.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I believe you are doing a very good job in the judiciary, though some judges will not like to hear this. Your magazine act as a check and all powers and authorities needs certain checks, otherwise the office holder will become arrogant and all too knowing which is not good for any one at all.
Editor's Note:- Thank you.
CIVIL PROCEDURE REVIEW
The Editor,
Are you aware of the effort of the government (the Ministry of Justice) to do a review of the 2004 Civil Procedure Rules? And if you are aware, what is your magazine doing nothing about it? Even if the bars in Lagos State, including the one you people call Tiger branch (although it's been acting like sheep branch for some time now) are acting unconcerned, your magazine should not be like that.
You ought to galvanize interests about the review in lawyers. You should let people know what's going on and ask their opinions and contributions, so that the review will be more robust.
Editor's Note: - We shall do so.
June 16, 2008
READERS PAVILION
SQUIB
The Editor,
I like your modesty but the truth must be told, you are arguably the most powerful lawyer in Lagos. I saw the way the high and the mighty of the legal profession related with you at the special session held by the NBA Lagos branch for late Professor Jadesola Akande at the foyer of the Lagos High Court by the NBA Lagos branch on Monday 9th June 2008. Judges, senior advocates and senior lawyers were eager to greet and exchange pleasantries with you. Even Rotimi Akeredolu S.A.N who knows you are in political disagreement with him greeted you. The information at my disposal is that the Squib is read at the highest echelon of the profession and that’s influence. I remember that the incumbent president of the NBA, Olisa Agbakoba contacted your magazine early in his quest to become president. And I am sure even this year serious contenders for various posts have no choice than to patronise the Squib to help their chances of winning. They must have even started by now.
Also the Squib is proving useful as a good source of research materials. There are papers you had published in the past that one finds so helpful in some present assignments.
Editor’s Note: - So much praises for a tiny, little gecko? Haba!
LAW/JOURNALISM
The Editor,
The combination of law and journalism in you is too powerful a combination. You use your knowledge of the law to back and sharpen your journalism. Those the Squib opposes know what I am talking about.
Editor’s Note: - Sir what are you talking about?
The Editor,
I am happy that the NBA Ikeja branch is having her own share of political trouble. It shows that such is not limited to NBA Lagos branch only.
Editor’s Note: - The Tigers shall overcome.
MAGISTRATE COURTS 1 AND 2 MUSHIN
The Editor,
I wish to bring to your attention the conditions of Magistrate Courts 1 and 2 Mushin. For some time, the roofs of these courts have been blown off and so there is no sitting there again, yet cases are still assigned to these courts. Lawyers only go there now to obtain dates of adjournment which can be as long as three months. I think this is an anomalous situation which should interest the SQUIB.
Editor’s Note: - Sure, we are already on the case.
LAW/JOURNALISM
The Editor,
You are a lawyer and yet you are a journalist. Does the law allow the legal practitioner to practice another trade?
Editor’s Note: - Consult the constitution please.
“ALL LAGOSIANS”
The Editor,
Your Learned Squib article “ALL LAGOSIANS” refers. What utter drivel! This article lacks focus, just jumping from topic to topic, finally settling on one that lacks any sort of substance.
Editor’s Note: - How did you endure reading the drivel through? Sorry for the torture.
JIDE ALADEJOBI
The Editor,
Do you know what? Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State is behind Jide Aladejobi’s plight (disbarment). You‘ll remember that Aladejobi was used by some people to confront the Governor last years.
Editor’s Note: - Wonderful! Never knew that Governor had a say in the Body of Benchers’ Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee!
SQUIB
The Editor,
When will you join our club - the Senior Advocates Club?
Editor’s Note: - Gecko – silk?
SQUIB
The Editor,
I like your modesty but the truth must be told, you are arguably the most powerful lawyer in Lagos. I saw the way the high and the mighty of the legal profession related with you at the special session held by the NBA Lagos branch for late Professor Jadesola Akande at the foyer of the Lagos High Court by the NBA Lagos branch on Monday 9th June 2008. Judges, senior advocates and senior lawyers were eager to greet and exchange pleasantries with you. Even Rotimi Akeredolu S.A.N who knows you are in political disagreement with him greeted you. The information at my disposal is that the Squib is read at the highest echelon of the profession and that’s influence. I remember that the incumbent president of the NBA, Olisa Agbakoba contacted your magazine early in his quest to become president. And I am sure even this year serious contenders for various posts have no choice than to patronise the Squib to help their chances of winning. They must have even started by now.
Also the Squib is proving useful as a good source of research materials. There are papers you had published in the past that one finds so helpful in some present assignments.
Editor’s Note: - So much praises for a tiny, little gecko? Haba!
LAW/JOURNALISM
The Editor,
The combination of law and journalism in you is too powerful a combination. You use your knowledge of the law to back and sharpen your journalism. Those the Squib opposes know what I am talking about.
Editor’s Note: - Sir what are you talking about?
The Editor,
I am happy that the NBA Ikeja branch is having her own share of political trouble. It shows that such is not limited to NBA Lagos branch only.
Editor’s Note: - The Tigers shall overcome.
MAGISTRATE COURTS 1 AND 2 MUSHIN
The Editor,
I wish to bring to your attention the conditions of Magistrate Courts 1 and 2 Mushin. For some time, the roofs of these courts have been blown off and so there is no sitting there again, yet cases are still assigned to these courts. Lawyers only go there now to obtain dates of adjournment which can be as long as three months. I think this is an anomalous situation which should interest the SQUIB.
Editor’s Note: - Sure, we are already on the case.
LAW/JOURNALISM
The Editor,
You are a lawyer and yet you are a journalist. Does the law allow the legal practitioner to practice another trade?
Editor’s Note: - Consult the constitution please.
“ALL LAGOSIANS”
The Editor,
Your Learned Squib article “ALL LAGOSIANS” refers. What utter drivel! This article lacks focus, just jumping from topic to topic, finally settling on one that lacks any sort of substance.
Editor’s Note: - How did you endure reading the drivel through? Sorry for the torture.
JIDE ALADEJOBI
The Editor,
Do you know what? Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State is behind Jide Aladejobi’s plight (disbarment). You‘ll remember that Aladejobi was used by some people to confront the Governor last years.
Editor’s Note: - Wonderful! Never knew that Governor had a say in the Body of Benchers’ Legal Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee!
SQUIB
The Editor,
When will you join our club - the Senior Advocates Club?
Editor’s Note: - Gecko – silk?
Saturday, June 14, 2008
9th June 2008
THE READERS’ PAVILION
SQUIB
The Editor,
You are certainly the most powerful lawyer around. No other lawyer, be he an elder or a silk matches you. This is because you are the only lawyer who owns a newspaper. You force your own opinions on all of us and we accept them. One can see that all important politicians always own newspapers – Awolowo, Abiola, Orji Kalu etc that’s what they all did.
Editor’s Note: - All powers belong to God.
SQUIB
The Editor,
What a prophet you are! All your predictions about the NBA Ikeja Bar, these past few weeks have more or less come to pass.
You even wrote that the elections would not hold on June 2 2008 and it did not hold. Prophet Sukubu!
Editor’s Note: - Too many geckos make one prophet!
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
For more than one month now all what we get to read in the SQUIB is just about NBA Ikeja branch elections. And you people call yourselves Tigers, don’t you know Tigers are animals. You are lawyers not animals.
Editor’s Note: - When NBA Ikeja branch members call themselves Tigers, they speak metaphorically.
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
As the editor of the Squib, you are not supposed to be partisan. But you are too much in support of Dave Ajetomobi’s candidacy in the race for the chairmanship of the NBA Ikeja. You even personally approached me to solicit my support for Ajetomobi.
That’s bad. Niyi Akinmola is my own candidate and he is the one who will win. By the grace of God, you and the Squib will be disgraced because Dave Ajetomobi will lose the election and Niyi Akinmola will win.
Editor’s Note: - You can be partisan, but I should not? The fact is that the Squib is not partisan, we are still in the business of reporting facts as we see them. Our only censor is the truth not blackmail, maledictions and evil suspicions such as the one you displayed. Meanwhile I wish your candidate the best of luck in the elections. Hope that when he wins the elections, you’ll allow me to participate in the victory party!
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
I am putting this call to you to express my appreciation for your cover story (IF THE ELECTIONS HOLD TODAY). The reportage was faithful to the facts. It was how things really happened (within the Electoral Committee) that you put it down.
I must tell you that despite our disagreement, I have learnt quite a lot from you.
Rex Onobrakpeya
Editor’s Note: - You are welcome, Sir.
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
If you ask for my sincere opinion about the NBA Ikeja branch elections, I will tell you that none of those contesting for the post of chairman merits the post.
They simply don’t have the eminence or influence that goes with such a post. Or how many of them can place a call to the Chief Judge of the State to discuss issues with him? The chairman of an NBA branch should be an influential person that the judiciary authorities have no choice than to respect, a person they will not want to offend.
Editor’s Note: - Point! Over to the candidates to prove otherwise!
SQUIB
The Editor,
You are certainly the most powerful lawyer around. No other lawyer, be he an elder or a silk matches you. This is because you are the only lawyer who owns a newspaper. You force your own opinions on all of us and we accept them. One can see that all important politicians always own newspapers – Awolowo, Abiola, Orji Kalu etc that’s what they all did.
Editor’s Note: - All powers belong to God.
SQUIB
The Editor,
What a prophet you are! All your predictions about the NBA Ikeja Bar, these past few weeks have more or less come to pass.
You even wrote that the elections would not hold on June 2 2008 and it did not hold. Prophet Sukubu!
Editor’s Note: - Too many geckos make one prophet!
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
For more than one month now all what we get to read in the SQUIB is just about NBA Ikeja branch elections. And you people call yourselves Tigers, don’t you know Tigers are animals. You are lawyers not animals.
Editor’s Note: - When NBA Ikeja branch members call themselves Tigers, they speak metaphorically.
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
As the editor of the Squib, you are not supposed to be partisan. But you are too much in support of Dave Ajetomobi’s candidacy in the race for the chairmanship of the NBA Ikeja. You even personally approached me to solicit my support for Ajetomobi.
That’s bad. Niyi Akinmola is my own candidate and he is the one who will win. By the grace of God, you and the Squib will be disgraced because Dave Ajetomobi will lose the election and Niyi Akinmola will win.
Editor’s Note: - You can be partisan, but I should not? The fact is that the Squib is not partisan, we are still in the business of reporting facts as we see them. Our only censor is the truth not blackmail, maledictions and evil suspicions such as the one you displayed. Meanwhile I wish your candidate the best of luck in the elections. Hope that when he wins the elections, you’ll allow me to participate in the victory party!
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
I am putting this call to you to express my appreciation for your cover story (IF THE ELECTIONS HOLD TODAY). The reportage was faithful to the facts. It was how things really happened (within the Electoral Committee) that you put it down.
I must tell you that despite our disagreement, I have learnt quite a lot from you.
Rex Onobrakpeya
Editor’s Note: - You are welcome, Sir.
NBA IKEJA
The Editor,
If you ask for my sincere opinion about the NBA Ikeja branch elections, I will tell you that none of those contesting for the post of chairman merits the post.
They simply don’t have the eminence or influence that goes with such a post. Or how many of them can place a call to the Chief Judge of the State to discuss issues with him? The chairman of an NBA branch should be an influential person that the judiciary authorities have no choice than to respect, a person they will not want to offend.
Editor’s Note: - Point! Over to the candidates to prove otherwise!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Vol 8 No 29
The Readers’ Pavilion
JIDE ALADEJOBI ESQ.
The Editor,
I am saddened by the fate that befell Jide Aladejobi. To be disbarred after 21 years in practice! But one of our old class-mates said he was not surprised at the development. He said even when Jide was an Assistant Secretary of the Students’ Union of the University of Ife, he had integrity issues to contend with.
Editor’s Note: - Hmmmmh!
JIDE ALADEJOBI ESQ.
The Editor,
So, it has finally happened to Aladejobi? It was bound to happen. There was a case he did against my client where he used ‘jankara’. And, so full of himself, was he.
Editor’s Note: - Well, can one say now?
JIDE ALADEJOBI ESQ.
The Editor,
Why did Aladejobi allow the matter to get to this extent? He should have settled with the old woman and in time too. Oh what a mess.
Editor’s Note: - Quite.
FAIR COMMENT
The Editor,
I am member of the Electoral Committee of the NBA Ikeja branch and must say that your write-up on our committee in your Vol. 8 Number 29 edition of 19th May 2008 is fair and balanced.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I have just come across the Squib and I found the magazine very interesting. When I was reading your vol. 8 number 27 edition (Which way will the Tigers go) I kept giggling to myself, so much so that my office mates wondered at me. You write so well.
Editor’s Note: Thank you. You keep reading, we will keep squibing.
DEPONENT
The Editor,
Please can you tell me the meaning of the word deponent? I went to the magistrate court Yaba to do an affidavit. There I was asked to sign on a portion of the affidavit on top of the word ‘deponent’. I don’t know the meaning of this word and that is why I’m calling you to find out. I came across your number in a law magazine. I checked my dictionary but couldn’t find the word deponent instead.
Editor’s Note: A deponent is the X Y Z author of all the stories contained in an affidavit
JIDE ALADEJOBI ESQ.
The Editor,
I am saddened by the fate that befell Jide Aladejobi. To be disbarred after 21 years in practice! But one of our old class-mates said he was not surprised at the development. He said even when Jide was an Assistant Secretary of the Students’ Union of the University of Ife, he had integrity issues to contend with.
Editor’s Note: - Hmmmmh!
JIDE ALADEJOBI ESQ.
The Editor,
So, it has finally happened to Aladejobi? It was bound to happen. There was a case he did against my client where he used ‘jankara’. And, so full of himself, was he.
Editor’s Note: - Well, can one say now?
JIDE ALADEJOBI ESQ.
The Editor,
Why did Aladejobi allow the matter to get to this extent? He should have settled with the old woman and in time too. Oh what a mess.
Editor’s Note: - Quite.
FAIR COMMENT
The Editor,
I am member of the Electoral Committee of the NBA Ikeja branch and must say that your write-up on our committee in your Vol. 8 Number 29 edition of 19th May 2008 is fair and balanced.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I have just come across the Squib and I found the magazine very interesting. When I was reading your vol. 8 number 27 edition (Which way will the Tigers go) I kept giggling to myself, so much so that my office mates wondered at me. You write so well.
Editor’s Note: Thank you. You keep reading, we will keep squibing.
DEPONENT
The Editor,
Please can you tell me the meaning of the word deponent? I went to the magistrate court Yaba to do an affidavit. There I was asked to sign on a portion of the affidavit on top of the word ‘deponent’. I don’t know the meaning of this word and that is why I’m calling you to find out. I came across your number in a law magazine. I checked my dictionary but couldn’t find the word deponent instead.
Editor’s Note: A deponent is the X Y Z author of all the stories contained in an affidavit
May 19 2008
READERS PAVILION
CURSE
The Editor,
I was there when Mr. Niyi Akinmola started raining heavy curses on you on account of your write-up on the forthcoming NBA Ikeja bar elections. According to him, he has specially prayed that you will fail in all areas of life just because according to him, you predicted in your write-up that he cannot succeed in the elections as candidate for Chairman. The more people tried to restrain him from his terrible curses, the angrier and wilder he got.
Editor’s Note: Leave Akinmola alone, he is my good friend. He is entitled to his curses and opinions!
MY CANDID ADVICE
The Editor,
I have a special advice for you - and that is to ensure that Dave Ajetomobi performs as Chaiman, if he wins the election to become Chairman, NBA Ikeja. The reason is because so many people are rooting for him because of your support for him. The meaning is that your integrity is at stake. Don’t allow him (Dave) to rubbish it by non-performance because his failure will be placed at your door-steps since you persuaded people to vote for him.
Editor’s Note: By the grace of God Dave will not fail.
‘UN-JADED’
The Editor,
I have just finished reading your Learned Squib on Jadesola Akande entitled “UN-JADED.” That was a beautiful one. I just called to congratulate you. I am proud of you.
Editor’s Note: You are proud of a gecko?
CURSE
The Editor,
I was there when Mr. Niyi Akinmola started raining heavy curses on you on account of your write-up on the forthcoming NBA Ikeja bar elections. According to him, he has specially prayed that you will fail in all areas of life just because according to him, you predicted in your write-up that he cannot succeed in the elections as candidate for Chairman. The more people tried to restrain him from his terrible curses, the angrier and wilder he got.
Editor’s Note: Leave Akinmola alone, he is my good friend. He is entitled to his curses and opinions!
MY CANDID ADVICE
The Editor,
I have a special advice for you - and that is to ensure that Dave Ajetomobi performs as Chaiman, if he wins the election to become Chairman, NBA Ikeja. The reason is because so many people are rooting for him because of your support for him. The meaning is that your integrity is at stake. Don’t allow him (Dave) to rubbish it by non-performance because his failure will be placed at your door-steps since you persuaded people to vote for him.
Editor’s Note: By the grace of God Dave will not fail.
‘UN-JADED’
The Editor,
I have just finished reading your Learned Squib on Jadesola Akande entitled “UN-JADED.” That was a beautiful one. I just called to congratulate you. I am proud of you.
Editor’s Note: You are proud of a gecko?
Monday, May 12, 2008
MAY 12, 2008
The Readers’ Pavilion
RE: TITLE OF PROFESSOR - ‘PROF.’
The Editor,
I feel honoured and privileged to have graduated from being a mere regular contributor to a columnist in your highly respected and widely read legal weekly, ‘The Squib.’ I however note that I am regularly referred to as ‘Prof.’ in my column. I am not a professor of law, at least not yet, as I have not been awarded such an academic distinction by any recognised university. Thus, I would prefer to be simply referred to as Ademola A. Adewale Esq. or in the alternative the title ‘Prof.’ be prefixed as “Prof.” the Squib professor of law; which is not an academic title.
Ademola A. Adewale Esq.
Editor’s Note:- All right sir!
SQUIB
The Editor,
Seeing you on campaign for Dave Ajetomobi to become Chairman NBA is enough reason for me to cast my vote for him.
What I mean is this, if Mr. Squib, the trouble-maker of the judiciary is behind a candidate, then, one can be sure the person will perform.
Editor’s Note: Defamation of character! I am not a troublemaker. I am only a gecko.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Mr. Squib a.k.a. “No friend, no foe.” I read your short piece on the Ikeja branch elections and I could not but wonder how despite all the closeness of all the dramatis personae to you, you were able to still produce an objective report about the situation at hand.
By the way can you help us to cry against the defacement of the walls of the court by bill posters. It is a very bad habit. Just look anywhere round you, you just see posters all over. It is bad, even so as these bill posters often use glues (of various types) to put up the bills. So they last for quite a log time, even years on the walls and become difficult to remove.
Editor’s Note: - Bill posters beware! Any one caught will be Squibbed.
SQUIB
The Editor,
There is something I have been wanting to tell you for sometime now. You are obviously a gifted person and as such should aspire to go beyond this local area. Yes you are doing a good job in our judiciary, but how many people know you outside the Lagos Judiciary for your great talents and attributes. You need a larger space. Please think about this my piece of advice.
Editor’s Note: - Thinking already.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Ah, thank goodness, you now have a new car! Now people will stop harassing you over that ramshackle, bedraggled Mazda!
Editor’s Note: - Are you sure you are not using “idea” too bug me?
SQUIB
The Editor,
The Squib, these days, is lacking that your personal touch - all those explosive exposures! Now there’s too much of Case Law. Who needs that? Even all those interesting departments such as Readers’ Pavilion, Diary etc. have their pages or contents reduced. And we don’t even have “BOOK EXCERPTS” again? You have to go back to the old days!
Editor’s Note: - Observations duly noted.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You who promote others, when will you stand for office your - self?
Editor’s Note: - Later!
JADESOLA AKANDE
The Editor,
When the package came to me and it was announced that it was from you, I said “ha another case has been filed against us by you.” So you could imagine my surprise when it was only the ‘Squib’ that was brought out from the envelope. I asked, “Where is the letter?” - we here in LASU know you!
But there was no letter, only the ‘Squib.’ My brother your write-up on Professor Jadesola Akande, and all those pictures of hers were just wonderful. All this kindness coming from you! I can’t believe this. I feel so proud of you. I am so touched that I am still having goose pimples.
Let me tell you something your place is up there. You will certainly become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria! And God will lift all of us up.
Once again, well done. You’ve done LASU really proud.
Editor’s Note:- Mama deserves it and more!
JADESOLA AKANDE
The Editor,
Is (Professor) Jadesola Akande, a relative of yours? Otherwise, why did you have her stories and pictures all over the Squib last week.
Editor’s Note: - She was indeed my relative - a member of the progressive family.
JADESOLA AKANDE
The Editor,
If really you love (Professor) Jadesola Akande, you wouldn’t sell the Squib’s edition on her. You would just give it out free to us.
Editor’s Note: - Is that agape love?
ANGELS
The Editor,
I am reading your book, the small red one with the pictures of angels (Why Lawyers Are Angels and Other People Say No) and I confess I find it so thrilling. There are gold-smiths but you are a word-smith. You write so well!
Editor’s Note: - With my ‘to go, to come’ English? Thank you.
ADVERTS
The Editor,
It is only those Candidates that the Squib likes that it advertises.
Editor’s Note:- Your assumption or assertion is wrong. The Squib never turns down any political advert. But it can only publish adverts of candidates who decide to use her platform.
RE: TITLE OF PROFESSOR - ‘PROF.’
The Editor,
I feel honoured and privileged to have graduated from being a mere regular contributor to a columnist in your highly respected and widely read legal weekly, ‘The Squib.’ I however note that I am regularly referred to as ‘Prof.’ in my column. I am not a professor of law, at least not yet, as I have not been awarded such an academic distinction by any recognised university. Thus, I would prefer to be simply referred to as Ademola A. Adewale Esq. or in the alternative the title ‘Prof.’ be prefixed as “Prof.” the Squib professor of law; which is not an academic title.
Ademola A. Adewale Esq.
Editor’s Note:- All right sir!
SQUIB
The Editor,
Seeing you on campaign for Dave Ajetomobi to become Chairman NBA is enough reason for me to cast my vote for him.
What I mean is this, if Mr. Squib, the trouble-maker of the judiciary is behind a candidate, then, one can be sure the person will perform.
Editor’s Note: Defamation of character! I am not a troublemaker. I am only a gecko.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Mr. Squib a.k.a. “No friend, no foe.” I read your short piece on the Ikeja branch elections and I could not but wonder how despite all the closeness of all the dramatis personae to you, you were able to still produce an objective report about the situation at hand.
By the way can you help us to cry against the defacement of the walls of the court by bill posters. It is a very bad habit. Just look anywhere round you, you just see posters all over. It is bad, even so as these bill posters often use glues (of various types) to put up the bills. So they last for quite a log time, even years on the walls and become difficult to remove.
Editor’s Note: - Bill posters beware! Any one caught will be Squibbed.
SQUIB
The Editor,
There is something I have been wanting to tell you for sometime now. You are obviously a gifted person and as such should aspire to go beyond this local area. Yes you are doing a good job in our judiciary, but how many people know you outside the Lagos Judiciary for your great talents and attributes. You need a larger space. Please think about this my piece of advice.
Editor’s Note: - Thinking already.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Ah, thank goodness, you now have a new car! Now people will stop harassing you over that ramshackle, bedraggled Mazda!
Editor’s Note: - Are you sure you are not using “idea” too bug me?
SQUIB
The Editor,
The Squib, these days, is lacking that your personal touch - all those explosive exposures! Now there’s too much of Case Law. Who needs that? Even all those interesting departments such as Readers’ Pavilion, Diary etc. have their pages or contents reduced. And we don’t even have “BOOK EXCERPTS” again? You have to go back to the old days!
Editor’s Note: - Observations duly noted.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You who promote others, when will you stand for office your - self?
Editor’s Note: - Later!
JADESOLA AKANDE
The Editor,
When the package came to me and it was announced that it was from you, I said “ha another case has been filed against us by you.” So you could imagine my surprise when it was only the ‘Squib’ that was brought out from the envelope. I asked, “Where is the letter?” - we here in LASU know you!
But there was no letter, only the ‘Squib.’ My brother your write-up on Professor Jadesola Akande, and all those pictures of hers were just wonderful. All this kindness coming from you! I can’t believe this. I feel so proud of you. I am so touched that I am still having goose pimples.
Let me tell you something your place is up there. You will certainly become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria! And God will lift all of us up.
Once again, well done. You’ve done LASU really proud.
Editor’s Note:- Mama deserves it and more!
JADESOLA AKANDE
The Editor,
Is (Professor) Jadesola Akande, a relative of yours? Otherwise, why did you have her stories and pictures all over the Squib last week.
Editor’s Note: - She was indeed my relative - a member of the progressive family.
JADESOLA AKANDE
The Editor,
If really you love (Professor) Jadesola Akande, you wouldn’t sell the Squib’s edition on her. You would just give it out free to us.
Editor’s Note: - Is that agape love?
ANGELS
The Editor,
I am reading your book, the small red one with the pictures of angels (Why Lawyers Are Angels and Other People Say No) and I confess I find it so thrilling. There are gold-smiths but you are a word-smith. You write so well!
Editor’s Note: - With my ‘to go, to come’ English? Thank you.
ADVERTS
The Editor,
It is only those Candidates that the Squib likes that it advertises.
Editor’s Note:- Your assumption or assertion is wrong. The Squib never turns down any political advert. But it can only publish adverts of candidates who decide to use her platform.
Monday, May 5, 2008
MAY 5 2008
THE READERS PAVILION
SQUIB
The Editor,
I saw you chatting for a long time in our court today with a fair lady, so much that you eventually forgot your glasses. If it were somebody else you would make a report of it in the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - What if I had forgotten my shoes!
CAP
The Editor,
I respect your courage and sense of dare. I can’t ever imagine myself, having the courage to enter a court with my (native) cap on! Sometimes, when I read your articles, I feel it is even dangerous enough an exercise, not to talk of writing same!
Editor’s Note:- What is there to fear?
EXECUTION
The Editor,
For a long time, I have been wanting to see you. Is there nothing the Squib can do over the way the police have constituted themselves into an appellate court of sort over judgments of the High Court pertaining to executions. Before the police provide security for court sheriffs on execution duty, they will say they need to verify the judgement and that can take more than two months!
Something should be done about the situation.
Editor’s Note: - Maybe one can complain about delay in the scrutiny of judgments. But can one complain about the scrutiny itself when one considers that there are so many fake judgments and processes flying about?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Vol 8 No 19 3rd March 2008
The Reader’s Pavilion
FIGHTING LAWYER?
The Editor,
I feel it is my duty to inform you about a show of shame I witnessed at the Ikeja High Court on Friday 22nd, February 2008. The ugly incident, a real physical fight between one unknown young lady and a lady lawyer called Mrs. Grace Ibidapo at a business centre near the NBA Ikeja Secretariat. The fight was so serious that a peace –maker got injured in the attempt to quell the fight. The two women came to the business centre to photocopy some documents when the young woman mistakenly nudged lawyer Ibidapo who to the amazement of all responded with a thunderous slap to the girl’s face and a fight ensued. When the duo was separated, Ibidapo fetched a police-man to arrest the young lady but her bid failed. Well, may be one should not be too surprised at lawyer Ibidapo’s behaviour. She was in the middle of what your magazine dubbed the “Fighting Judge Saga” last year when the same Ibidapo was allegedly assaulted by her then boss - Justice Ojikutu – Oshode. May be Justice Ojikutu – Oshode was not only the guilty party in that incident after all.
Editor’s Note: - We got to Mrs. Grace Ibidapo over this letter and her response briefly was as follows:
(a) An initial complete denial that the incident ever happened;
(b) An eventual acceptance that a clash (but non-physical) happened between her and another lady on 22nd February 2008 at a business centre;
(c) the cause of the quarrel is that the other lady in question pushed Mrs. Ibidapo’s documents to the floor thereby scattering and dirtying them;
(d) Ibidapo never summoned the police to arrest her opponent but merely threatened to so do;
However despite Mrs. Ibidapo’s denial, other witnesses to the incident said ‘a fight actually took place. Sad.
CASE LAW
The Editor,
I enjoy reading your Case – Law reports infact I prefer your reports to the ones in the regular law reports. They (the judgments of the Lagos High Courts) are rich and I find them useful for conducting my cases.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
SQUIB
The Editor,
My husband is an avid reader of the Squib. He loves it so much. When he saw you in the Tiv outfit, he exclaimed. “Ah, this man is “irredeemable”
Editor’s Note: - Let him keep reading we’ll keep Squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to specially thank you for so boldly championing our cause on the television. Infact we workers (judiciary) couldn’t imagine that someone like you could come so powerfully and openly to express support for our cause.
Editor’s Note: - Merely doing our work!
SOUP
The Editor,
The lawyer involved in the forgery of the judgment of a high court may not be a lawyer after all. If you investigate deeper you may find that he is a fake. I can’t imagine a trained legal practitioner descending so low to do that.
Editor’s Note:- I wonder too!
SOUP
The Editor,
You said that there is a lawyer in soup in your last edition. What type of soup is he in - Ogbono, Ewedu, Egusi, Okro?
Editor’s Note: - Pepper- soup.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Vol 8 No 18 25th Feb 2008
READERS’ PAVILION
KESSINGTON J
The Editor,
I read your story on the Late Justice Abiodun Kessington and his eccentric ways and keen sense of Justice. Well, here in Ibadan, Oyo State, we have a judge like that, Adeniran J. Occasionally, he took speaks Yoruba in his court. There was a time the judge came late to court. Just as he wanted to start proceedings, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria present stood up and started berating the judge for not apologising to the bar for late coming.
Guess what Adeniran J did? He said the following words:
“Iyun, ni kootu mi na o?
Registrar, fun gbogbgo won ni date.
Ma fun okunrin yen sa o.
Akpo ….. ki lo pe ra e”
(“Isn’t it wonderful to have myself so tongue-lashed in my very court? Mr. Registrar, adjourn all cases. Give them new dates, but don’t give that man (the Senior advocate) any date. Akpo …….. whatever he calls himself”)
On another occasion, a land dispute came up before Adeniran J. The actual owner was an illiterate old man. The land in dispute lay in challenge and the plaintiff who gave only ten thousand naira to the old man during transaction for the sale of the land as transportation money now claimed it was the purchase price of the land. To make matters worse, the old man’s lawyer, apparently in collusion with the adverse party advised his client to claim in court that he collected money from the plaintiff as purchase price. But the old man had keen native intelligence. He consulted another lawyer on the matter and he was advised not to accept collecting any purchase price for his land. At trial, the old man’s lawyer put the question to him:-
Lawyer: “Baba, did you collect any money on your land from the plaintiff.
Client: I didn’t but may be you collected.
The lawyer repeated the question some more times but the old man stood his ground. Adeniran J. immediately realised that something fishy was on. He gave judgment to the old man and said “- Ha ha, ten thousand fun ile ni Shallenji!
Ki se n’Ibadan n’bi.
Boya l’abule yin;
Baba, eni ba wa sori ile yin,
E no won”
(“Incredible-for land at Challenge in Ibadan to go for a mere ten thousand naira? Not in Ibadan, may be in your (defendant’s) village. Baba if any body trespasses on your land, beat them up”!)
Editor’s Note: - To every jurisdiction, at least one Kessington J?
SQUIB
The Editor,
If you err, who will Squib the Squib?
Editor’s Note: - The Squib, of course.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You look great in this your Tiv attire, it is Squibable. I must see it in the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - As your Readership pleases!
JUSUN
The Editor,
I want to thank you for your comments on the Television over the last JUSUN strike. Thank you for defending so strongly the cause of Judiciary workers.
Editor’s Note: - Our pleasure.
KESSINGTON J
The Editor,
I read your story on the Late Justice Abiodun Kessington and his eccentric ways and keen sense of Justice. Well, here in Ibadan, Oyo State, we have a judge like that, Adeniran J. Occasionally, he took speaks Yoruba in his court. There was a time the judge came late to court. Just as he wanted to start proceedings, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria present stood up and started berating the judge for not apologising to the bar for late coming.
Guess what Adeniran J did? He said the following words:
“Iyun, ni kootu mi na o?
Registrar, fun gbogbgo won ni date.
Ma fun okunrin yen sa o.
Akpo ….. ki lo pe ra e”
(“Isn’t it wonderful to have myself so tongue-lashed in my very court? Mr. Registrar, adjourn all cases. Give them new dates, but don’t give that man (the Senior advocate) any date. Akpo …….. whatever he calls himself”)
On another occasion, a land dispute came up before Adeniran J. The actual owner was an illiterate old man. The land in dispute lay in challenge and the plaintiff who gave only ten thousand naira to the old man during transaction for the sale of the land as transportation money now claimed it was the purchase price of the land. To make matters worse, the old man’s lawyer, apparently in collusion with the adverse party advised his client to claim in court that he collected money from the plaintiff as purchase price. But the old man had keen native intelligence. He consulted another lawyer on the matter and he was advised not to accept collecting any purchase price for his land. At trial, the old man’s lawyer put the question to him:-
Lawyer: “Baba, did you collect any money on your land from the plaintiff.
Client: I didn’t but may be you collected.
The lawyer repeated the question some more times but the old man stood his ground. Adeniran J. immediately realised that something fishy was on. He gave judgment to the old man and said “- Ha ha, ten thousand fun ile ni Shallenji!
Ki se n’Ibadan n’bi.
Boya l’abule yin;
Baba, eni ba wa sori ile yin,
E no won”
(“Incredible-for land at Challenge in Ibadan to go for a mere ten thousand naira? Not in Ibadan, may be in your (defendant’s) village. Baba if any body trespasses on your land, beat them up”!)
Editor’s Note: - To every jurisdiction, at least one Kessington J?
SQUIB
The Editor,
If you err, who will Squib the Squib?
Editor’s Note: - The Squib, of course.
SQUIB
The Editor,
You look great in this your Tiv attire, it is Squibable. I must see it in the Squib.
Editor’s Note: - As your Readership pleases!
JUSUN
The Editor,
I want to thank you for your comments on the Television over the last JUSUN strike. Thank you for defending so strongly the cause of Judiciary workers.
Editor’s Note: - Our pleasure.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Vol 8 No 17 18th February 2008
THE READERS’ PAVILION
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was shocked to learn of the passing away of the late Justice Kessington in a story in the recent issue of your publication (The Squib). You gave the story a very good treatment for which I write to congratulate and thank you. We all have our human foibles and idiosyncrasies which makes us the individuals that we are. “Kessy” was a hero of the Lagos Judiciary. May His Soul find everlasting favour with its Maker.
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I won’t blame you too much any judge who is after you. You can be something of handful in your write-ups, especially the merciless and irreverent way you poke fun at those in authority. For example, I just kept laughing when I read your story about the judge (Ojikutu - Oshode J.) who beat up her judicial assistant.
Editor’s Note: - Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
MASTER FORGER
The Editor,
Have you heard of the case of a lawyer who forged Justice Oshodi’s judgment?
Editor’s Note: - Sure, working on it.
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was very sorry to learn of the passing on of the great Kess. Any news of the funeral or how I can reach the family. Kess was particularly fond of me. He used to call me “Agbako.” A very lively man indeed.
Olisa Agbakoba S.A.N
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was shocked to learn of the passing away of the late Justice Kessington in a story in the recent issue of your publication (The Squib). You gave the story a very good treatment for which I write to congratulate and thank you. We all have our human foibles and idiosyncrasies which makes us the individuals that we are. “Kessy” was a hero of the Lagos Judiciary. May His Soul find everlasting favour with its Maker.
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I won’t blame you too much any judge who is after you. You can be something of handful in your write-ups, especially the merciless and irreverent way you poke fun at those in authority. For example, I just kept laughing when I read your story about the judge (Ojikutu - Oshode J.) who beat up her judicial assistant.
Editor’s Note: - Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
MASTER FORGER
The Editor,
Have you heard of the case of a lawyer who forged Justice Oshodi’s judgment?
Editor’s Note: - Sure, working on it.
KESSINGTON J.
The Editor,
I was very sorry to learn of the passing on of the great Kess. Any news of the funeral or how I can reach the family. Kess was particularly fond of me. He used to call me “Agbako.” A very lively man indeed.
Olisa Agbakoba S.A.N
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Vol 8 No 16 4th February 2008
READERS’ PAVILION
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
When I read your Learned Squib article. “The Secret Impediment, I looked round the Bar Centre grounds for any sight of the “rubber” you complained about, but I did not see any. However with you now as my guide, I can see quite a lot and your article now makes sense to me. I agree the Bar Centre {Secretariat of NBA Ikeja} needs urgent cleansing.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
We should not blame those who come in the evenings to make love at the Bar Centre. They obviously want to have babies who will grow up to be lawyers.
Editor’s Note: - Really?
SQUIB
The Editor,
This your edition on the Lagos State Police Commissioner is best sold at Police Stations and not in the court premises.
Editor’s Note: - Good idea!
SQUIB
The Editor,
But for the Case-Law Section, I wouldn’t have bought the Squib this week. I have no interest in reading the views of the man on your cover - the Police Commissioner.
Editor’s Note: - I see!
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to express my heart-felt gratitude to you for your magazine’s immense contribution to the maintenance of sanity in the judiciary. The Squib is a big check on the abuse and misuse of powers in the profession.
Even your very presence makes people control themselves. When you enter the court, you may not know it, but the atmosphere changes. Also, the other day, you came in to see the DPP; I was there too with a few colleagues. You joined us in waiting but some other people were allowed immediate access to the D.P.P.
After a long while, you got fed up of the situation and walked off in annoyance. Immediately, the lady attending to us rushed in to see the DPP with the alarming news that the SQUIB man was here and had left in annoyance. The DPP asked the lady to quickly bring you back. May God continue to energise you.
Editor’s Note: - And everyone else
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
When I read your Learned Squib article. “The Secret Impediment, I looked round the Bar Centre grounds for any sight of the “rubber” you complained about, but I did not see any. However with you now as my guide, I can see quite a lot and your article now makes sense to me. I agree the Bar Centre {Secretariat of NBA Ikeja} needs urgent cleansing.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
THE SECRET IMPEDIMENT
The Editor,
We should not blame those who come in the evenings to make love at the Bar Centre. They obviously want to have babies who will grow up to be lawyers.
Editor’s Note: - Really?
SQUIB
The Editor,
This your edition on the Lagos State Police Commissioner is best sold at Police Stations and not in the court premises.
Editor’s Note: - Good idea!
SQUIB
The Editor,
But for the Case-Law Section, I wouldn’t have bought the Squib this week. I have no interest in reading the views of the man on your cover - the Police Commissioner.
Editor’s Note: - I see!
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to express my heart-felt gratitude to you for your magazine’s immense contribution to the maintenance of sanity in the judiciary. The Squib is a big check on the abuse and misuse of powers in the profession.
Even your very presence makes people control themselves. When you enter the court, you may not know it, but the atmosphere changes. Also, the other day, you came in to see the DPP; I was there too with a few colleagues. You joined us in waiting but some other people were allowed immediate access to the D.P.P.
After a long while, you got fed up of the situation and walked off in annoyance. Immediately, the lady attending to us rushed in to see the DPP with the alarming news that the SQUIB man was here and had left in annoyance. The DPP asked the lady to quickly bring you back. May God continue to energise you.
Editor’s Note: - And everyone else
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Vol 8 No 15 28th January 2008
SQUIB
The Editor,
Compliments of the season! It gladdens my heart to know that Squib is now on-line, keep the flag flying.
Editor’s Note: - Thank you. Please keep Squibbing.
CASE LAW
The Editor,
That judgment of Justice Adenike Coker in suit No LD/1164/2006 is very interesting. You should have published it, all at once, not instalmentally as you did. It pained me so much that I couldn’t get the judgment once.
Editor’s Note: - Sorry about that. But the judgment is too long to be published once.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Thanks for your stand on all issues. We are right behind you. Keep up the good fight and make the year hot for those who need the truth.
Editor’s Note: - Sure!
SQUIB
The Editor,
I wonder how you got my e-mail address. I went to ABU Zaria and then Nigerian Law School in 1985. I was called to the New York Bar in 1995, so I did not know how our paths could have crossed. I may have seen the face and the name is definitely familiar but it has been such a long time that I left Nigeria. I have not been to Nigeria for the past 15 years. I have my own practice in New York. I intend to come and visit Nigeria sometimes in 2008 I have looked at your profile and what you are about. I am impressed. Keep up the good work. Regards.
Editor’s Note: - Thank you. Wish you a happy visit home.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Vol 8 No 13 14th January 2008
SQUIB READER’S PAVILION
PHILADELPHIA 9
The Editor,
Thank you for your story on the ‘Philadelphia 9’ - (the Lagos State Magistrates who went off to a Conference in the U.S without the approval of the Chief Judge), but do you know there is partiality in the purported punishment meted out to those magistrates? For example Mrs. Omotosho was among the P9 but she was never mentioned or moved from her court because she is the daughter of Obaseki JSC who was one of the Panel Members trying the Chief Judge in Abuja.
Secondly, look at Mrs. Ladipo who was moved from Tapa to Court 2 Apapa, which is not only a higher court but also made her head over Mrs. Femi Segun because her father was in the same church society with the Chief Judge at Ebute-Ero.
Thirdly, Mrs. Ogala was moved from Ikeja to Lagos, maintaining the same position because her husband is now the Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on the Judiciary.
And, do you know how the Chief Judge got to know about the ‘temporary disappearance’ of the P9 to the U.S? It was Mr. Animashaun the magistrate at the Ministry of Lands who squealed on them.
Editor’s Note-: Wonderful!
FIRST GECKO
The Editor,
I was chatting with you one day when a friend saw us together. After you left, my friend asked me what I was doing with you.
When I said you were my friend she told me “stop deceiving yourself, that Squib man has no friend.” Then I said you were my brother. She greeted that with a look of disbelief but conceded that you may after all have a family.
Editor’s Note: - Who are my brothers and sisters? Geckos!
SQUIB
The Editor,
May God continue to be with you. It’s a very good job you are doing in the judiciary. You tell the truth irrespective of those who are not comfortable with the truth.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
JUDGES
The Editor,
My view on your story about the judge who anointed computers with oil is that it’s another proof that Judges are all too human like us, no matter our calling them ‘Lords’ and treating them like gods.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
RE-ASSIGNMENT BLUES
The Editor,
Legal practice in Lagos State was terrible, the last four months of 2007. Many of us (practicing lawyers) suffered as our cases were trapped in the registry, as they were not re-assigned to new judges. I was one of those especially hit by the incompetence of the authorities in re-assigning cases promptly. What type of Chief Judge is the incumbent? And to think he was once an administrative judge before becoming a chief judge?
My brother, I won’t deceive you, I suffered. Clients dried up and I had to resort to showing the meeting agenda of the NBA Ikeja which listed the issue of the late or even non-reassignment of case files to clients to convince them it was a general problem and which the NBA was tackling.
Editor’s Note: - What a pity! Let’s hope for a better year!
CRUSADE
The Editor,
Your crusade for a better judiciary is a task for all of us. But I believe you are one of the few specially blessed to undertake such challenges, hence my salutation to you. May you go from strength to strength!
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
PHILADELPHIA 9
The Editor,
Thank you for your story on the ‘Philadelphia 9’ - (the Lagos State Magistrates who went off to a Conference in the U.S without the approval of the Chief Judge), but do you know there is partiality in the purported punishment meted out to those magistrates? For example Mrs. Omotosho was among the P9 but she was never mentioned or moved from her court because she is the daughter of Obaseki JSC who was one of the Panel Members trying the Chief Judge in Abuja.
Secondly, look at Mrs. Ladipo who was moved from Tapa to Court 2 Apapa, which is not only a higher court but also made her head over Mrs. Femi Segun because her father was in the same church society with the Chief Judge at Ebute-Ero.
Thirdly, Mrs. Ogala was moved from Ikeja to Lagos, maintaining the same position because her husband is now the Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on the Judiciary.
And, do you know how the Chief Judge got to know about the ‘temporary disappearance’ of the P9 to the U.S? It was Mr. Animashaun the magistrate at the Ministry of Lands who squealed on them.
Editor’s Note-: Wonderful!
FIRST GECKO
The Editor,
I was chatting with you one day when a friend saw us together. After you left, my friend asked me what I was doing with you.
When I said you were my friend she told me “stop deceiving yourself, that Squib man has no friend.” Then I said you were my brother. She greeted that with a look of disbelief but conceded that you may after all have a family.
Editor’s Note: - Who are my brothers and sisters? Geckos!
SQUIB
The Editor,
May God continue to be with you. It’s a very good job you are doing in the judiciary. You tell the truth irrespective of those who are not comfortable with the truth.
Editor’s Note:- Thank you.
JUDGES
The Editor,
My view on your story about the judge who anointed computers with oil is that it’s another proof that Judges are all too human like us, no matter our calling them ‘Lords’ and treating them like gods.
Editor’s Note: - Quite!
RE-ASSIGNMENT BLUES
The Editor,
Legal practice in Lagos State was terrible, the last four months of 2007. Many of us (practicing lawyers) suffered as our cases were trapped in the registry, as they were not re-assigned to new judges. I was one of those especially hit by the incompetence of the authorities in re-assigning cases promptly. What type of Chief Judge is the incumbent? And to think he was once an administrative judge before becoming a chief judge?
My brother, I won’t deceive you, I suffered. Clients dried up and I had to resort to showing the meeting agenda of the NBA Ikeja which listed the issue of the late or even non-reassignment of case files to clients to convince them it was a general problem and which the NBA was tackling.
Editor’s Note: - What a pity! Let’s hope for a better year!
CRUSADE
The Editor,
Your crusade for a better judiciary is a task for all of us. But I believe you are one of the few specially blessed to undertake such challenges, hence my salutation to you. May you go from strength to strength!
Editor’s Note: - Amen.
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