READER’S PAVILION
OLOBI
The Editor,
Concerning that lawyer who got beaten up by the supporters of Olabode George, I want to ask “why did he too choose to stage his protest in their midst considering that political supporters are often wild and rough people? What he did was too dangerous.
Editor’s Note: Are you now saying the Bode George and co are a dangerous bunch?
OLOBI
The Editor,
I am not in sympathy with lawyer M.K.O Olobi over the attack he suffered in the hands of suspected supporters of Olabode George on the day George and other were convicted by the trial judge.
The honourable judge in his good sense never complained about the ‘rented crowd’, if any. A court is an open place unless the judge has a reason to sit in ‘camera’.
What happened to our friend (Olobi) is an end product of cheap popularly, if I may say so. Olobi has no case against Bode George who did not direct the boys who attacked him. Couldn’t the boys have been sponsored by the other accused? Lawyers must behave as lawyers always and draw less attention for publicity.
Editor’s Note: Can one really say Olobi was looking for cheap popularity?
LOCATIONAL ARITHMETICS
The Editor,
I have just read your Learned Squib article “Locational Arithmetics”. What a funny write-up! I think I would take to your advice by killing Mr. Adesina Ogunlana a.k.a Mr. Squib and let us see when I would get out of prison. Keep watching, I might attack you very soon. As you would say the Heavens will not fall!
Editor’s Note: I need to intercede for you. If only you know the grave danger you’re just put your-self in for thinking of killing me.
LEARNED SQUIB
The Editor,
I called just to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed your recent Learned Squib write-ups. I fond the one you wrote on friends in government are friends lost, talkless of the one on Justice Isola Olorunnibe, the “expired terrorist”. By the way, God is dealing with your enemies, one by one, or where still is Dele Oye, Your prosecutor before the Disciplinary Committee in Abuja? Has he not vanished, without a trace?
Editor’s Note: Maybe?
SQUIB STRUGGLE
The Editor,
I read of the case you are maintaining at Federal High Court against the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee and I am happy that you now have an injunction against your opponents. Please be assured that they will never overcome you.
Editor’s Note: Amen!
CARTOONS
The Editor,
Where are the cartoons in the Squib? Of all things in the Squib, I cared most for the Squib-but they don’t longer feature in the Squib?
Editor’s Note: Sorry for the disappointment, we’ll try and bring back the cartoons
JOB APPLICANT
The Editor,
Can you supply the physical address of the applicants for job, on your advert page? This would enable interested firms to know those of the lot that are nearer their offices. You know distance between home and office is a factor to consider in employment.
Editor’s Note: We’ll endeavour to get their addresses. Thank you
STAYING FOCUSED
The Editor,
I read a comment of one of your readers, praising you and commenting on the recognition in court that a particular judge gave you. This reader may mean well but then who knows? He may just be posing as a friend but he may say snide things behind you.
Don’t let such praises go to your head. Don’t lose your focus and keep telling the truth and keep doing the right thing.
Editor’s Note: Amen.
PUBLIC LIFE
The Editor,
How can you say you are going to run for secretary of the Tiger Bar. Secretary? That’s too small except you are talking of the National Body of the NBA. You should go for Chairman, NBA Ikeja.
Editor’s Note: There is no hurry in life, especially if it is service in public life, that one is sincerely interested in?
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
VOL. 10 NO. 7
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
You said in your last edition that Bode George has gone to school- which school?
Editor’s Note: The "Great School."
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
The school that Bode George went is one that accommodates both the rich and the poor.
Editor’s Note: Right.
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
Let me tell the course of study in the new school that Bode George is now attending is called “prisonology”.
Editor’s Note: Is that?
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
Your cover for this week’s edition tickles me pink-Bode Goes to School! How interesting!
Editor’s Note: Please stay pink.
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
I do not think that your last week’s cover “Big Stress: Olabode George Goes to School” is apt enough for the story. A better one would be “Bode George: Ewon ni ile Alaseju” “Bode George: Over-reachers ultimately end up in Prison”
Editor’s Note: Well?
SQUIB
The Editor,
I saw the recognition justice .. gave you when you entered her court this morning (even though you were not robed). The judge stopped proceedings temporarily to acknowledge your presence.
What greater honour can a lawyer ask for? It is, as our people say, perforce that people have sango (the Yoruba God of Thunder). The Squib has come to stay even though people hate those who speak the truth. What people like us can do is to continue to pray for God’s protection for you, because that’s the only sure protection for anybody.
Editor’s Note: And may God continue to hear and answer your prayers
SQUIB
The Editor,
I’ll like to know whether you studied Yoruba language to the fullest at the Secondary School stage.
I ask because I notice that you use the language masterfully, lacing your write-ups with it. Your use of Yoruba thus adds profundity and clarity to your articles.
Editor’s Note: Thank you.
LAWYER’S CAR
The Editor,
I have to bring this fact to your knowledge, because you are the voice of the voiceless. For about three weeks now, a lawyers car has been detained in court here over an incident she had with a security guard. According to what I learnt, there was a disagreement over whether the lawyer should park her car or not at a particular spot. In the process, the lawyer’s car brushed the guard’s leg and he in turn smashed in the lawyer’s car windscreen.
On top of it all, the lawyer car has been detained in the premises of the court (Lagos High Court) since almost a month ago now. That to me is very unfair. Why should a security guard be allowed to rude and violent to counsel in the premises of the court. Please look into this matter.
Editor’s Note: We shall.
GANI FAWEHINMI
The Editor,
I suspect that the death of Gani Fawehinmi, may, if care is not taken lead to a vacuum in the law Reporting Sector. A printer friend of mine commented on the poor quality of an edition of the Nigerian Weekly Law Report that issued shortly after Gani’s death.
You may begin to consider going into the law reporting business. Though capital intensive, but it is highly profitable. You may have to approach the banks for loans to commence.
Editor’s Note: SQUIB LAW REPORTS? Thank you.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
You are too harsh on my friend-the man who dressed so poorly on New Legal Year Day. The man is like me a widower and he needs help, if you know what I mean.
I’m telling you from personal experience that it is not an easy thing to lose one’s wife.
Editor’s Note: Yes, but.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
I think you are right on your publication as regards Julius Akinlaja. Even when he came to Port-Harcourt for the bar conference, I had to talk to him over his dirty appearance. Can you imagine he came to the conference grounds wearing “slippers” I remember giving him #2,000.00 for his book which he was selling for #500.00, just to encourage him.
Editor’s Note: Behold another witness!.
LEARNED SQUIB
The Editor,
Are you sure that the Addeh in you Learned Squib article “And A call came through” is not your good self.
Editor’s Note: No, but he may be a cousin.
The Editor,
You said in your last edition that Bode George has gone to school- which school?
Editor’s Note: The "Great School."
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
The school that Bode George went is one that accommodates both the rich and the poor.
Editor’s Note: Right.
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
Let me tell the course of study in the new school that Bode George is now attending is called “prisonology”.
Editor’s Note: Is that?
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
Your cover for this week’s edition tickles me pink-Bode Goes to School! How interesting!
Editor’s Note: Please stay pink.
BODE GEORGE
The Editor,
I do not think that your last week’s cover “Big Stress: Olabode George Goes to School” is apt enough for the story. A better one would be “Bode George: Ewon ni ile Alaseju” “Bode George: Over-reachers ultimately end up in Prison”
Editor’s Note: Well?
SQUIB
The Editor,
I saw the recognition justice .. gave you when you entered her court this morning (even though you were not robed). The judge stopped proceedings temporarily to acknowledge your presence.
What greater honour can a lawyer ask for? It is, as our people say, perforce that people have sango (the Yoruba God of Thunder). The Squib has come to stay even though people hate those who speak the truth. What people like us can do is to continue to pray for God’s protection for you, because that’s the only sure protection for anybody.
Editor’s Note: And may God continue to hear and answer your prayers
SQUIB
The Editor,
I’ll like to know whether you studied Yoruba language to the fullest at the Secondary School stage.
I ask because I notice that you use the language masterfully, lacing your write-ups with it. Your use of Yoruba thus adds profundity and clarity to your articles.
Editor’s Note: Thank you.
LAWYER’S CAR
The Editor,
I have to bring this fact to your knowledge, because you are the voice of the voiceless. For about three weeks now, a lawyers car has been detained in court here over an incident she had with a security guard. According to what I learnt, there was a disagreement over whether the lawyer should park her car or not at a particular spot. In the process, the lawyer’s car brushed the guard’s leg and he in turn smashed in the lawyer’s car windscreen.
On top of it all, the lawyer car has been detained in the premises of the court (Lagos High Court) since almost a month ago now. That to me is very unfair. Why should a security guard be allowed to rude and violent to counsel in the premises of the court. Please look into this matter.
Editor’s Note: We shall.
GANI FAWEHINMI
The Editor,
I suspect that the death of Gani Fawehinmi, may, if care is not taken lead to a vacuum in the law Reporting Sector. A printer friend of mine commented on the poor quality of an edition of the Nigerian Weekly Law Report that issued shortly after Gani’s death.
You may begin to consider going into the law reporting business. Though capital intensive, but it is highly profitable. You may have to approach the banks for loans to commence.
Editor’s Note: SQUIB LAW REPORTS? Thank you.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
You are too harsh on my friend-the man who dressed so poorly on New Legal Year Day. The man is like me a widower and he needs help, if you know what I mean.
I’m telling you from personal experience that it is not an easy thing to lose one’s wife.
Editor’s Note: Yes, but.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
I think you are right on your publication as regards Julius Akinlaja. Even when he came to Port-Harcourt for the bar conference, I had to talk to him over his dirty appearance. Can you imagine he came to the conference grounds wearing “slippers” I remember giving him #2,000.00 for his book which he was selling for #500.00, just to encourage him.
Editor’s Note: Behold another witness!.
LEARNED SQUIB
The Editor,
Are you sure that the Addeh in you Learned Squib article “And A call came through” is not your good self.
Editor’s Note: No, but he may be a cousin.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
VOL.10 NO.6
BADAGRY HIGH COURT
The Editor,
I read the comments of one of your readers about the messy situation of Badagry High Court. See I have quite a lot to say
Editor's Note: Say it.
JUSTICE ADEBAJO
The Editor,
My attention has been drawn to Page 3 of the above where ina letter to your Editor my name featured as having had open quarells in court with Justice Adebajo in matters handled by me before his Lordship. I emphatically state that no such incident happened. I also wish to state that in all my twenty-three years at the Bar, I have not had any open quarell with any Judge in Court, either in Lagos State or in any part of Nigeria as I believe that such act would be unprofessional.
The law is so wide and replete with styles and means of channeling one's cases in court, even before biased and hostile presiding officers. I have always had recourse to these and would be the last to resort to such demeaning act as open quarell in the hallowed Chamber.
It would be greatly appreciated if this rejoinder is published in your next edition.
Chief Adetunji Orisalade
Editor's Note: Sir, may be what was open to us was silent and secret to you. But there was a quarell nonetheless.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
Just how did you manage to get the photograph of that lawyer who wore canvass shoes to court and without socks?
Editor's Note: Simple. Like this, like that!
The Editor,
I read the comments of one of your readers about the messy situation of Badagry High Court. See I have quite a lot to say
Editor's Note: Say it.
JUSTICE ADEBAJO
The Editor,
My attention has been drawn to Page 3 of the above where ina letter to your Editor my name featured as having had open quarells in court with Justice Adebajo in matters handled by me before his Lordship. I emphatically state that no such incident happened. I also wish to state that in all my twenty-three years at the Bar, I have not had any open quarell with any Judge in Court, either in Lagos State or in any part of Nigeria as I believe that such act would be unprofessional.
The law is so wide and replete with styles and means of channeling one's cases in court, even before biased and hostile presiding officers. I have always had recourse to these and would be the last to resort to such demeaning act as open quarell in the hallowed Chamber.
It would be greatly appreciated if this rejoinder is published in your next edition.
Chief Adetunji Orisalade
Editor's Note: Sir, may be what was open to us was silent and secret to you. But there was a quarell nonetheless.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
Just how did you manage to get the photograph of that lawyer who wore canvass shoes to court and without socks?
Editor's Note: Simple. Like this, like that!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
VOL. 10 NO. 5
READERS’ PAVILION
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
I called to express my enjoyment of the Squib. I have with me here, last week’s edition on the badly dressed lawyer and this week’s which focused on use of attached furniture in the Chief Judge’s office
Talking about the attached furniture, I think it is just a big shame. May be the Chief Judge is not even aware of the situation. May be somebody who has been given the contract to supply the chairs and tables has “eaten” the money and now arranged for the attached goods to be used in the offices.
I think your story on the dirty lawyer is absolutely necessary. The way some of our colleagues dress nowadays, youngsters would certainly run away from joining the legal profession since their dressing portray us as wretched people. And who wants to be a wretch?
Editor’s Note: Certainly not me!
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
Is this the way to treat a new wife? I refer to your cover story this week (use of attached furniture in the chief judge’s office). But let me ask you, how did you manage to get those pictures of those seats?
Well let me warn you that henceforth you have got to be very careful. The new Chief Judge is a terrible and vindictive person. Please watch your back. But talking seriously, it is through efforts like the Squib that we can get the broom to the floor to give it a clean sweep.
Editor’s Note: You said the new chief judge is my “wife”. If that’s true how come you are warning the husband against the wife? In fact I will tell, when I get home.
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
I wish to categorically state that your report listing our court (Justice Sola Williams) as one of the courts where attached furniture is used is not correct.
There is no such item in our court. I challenge you to point out a single item in this court room that is from the bailiffs section. You are free to look around.
Even when the seats for registrars and the seats in the dock and the witness box were bad, it was our judge who made new ones in replacement. We don’t use attached goods here.
Editor’s Note: Although we appreciate and respect your feelings but we stand by our story. Until our publication, there was at least one chair with markings from the sheriffs in your court. It is no longer there now.
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
You are very right that the judiciary is using attached furniture in her offices. For example if you go to the Commissioner of Oaths Office in the Lagos High Court, the refrigerator there is an attached good. Likewise a standing fan in Mr. Farawe’s office, in the same department.
Editor’s Note:- Wonderful!
LAGOS JUDICIARY
The Editor,
I can tell you that the Lagos State judiciary has done far worse than converting or appropriating sets of furniture-belonging to litigants.
I have a case in my chambers where for about ten years now, the Lagos State Judiciary has sat on the money of our client, the judgement creditor in a decided case.
In fact after a time, we had to pay the client the money due to him from our chamber’s account, to save the face of the judiciary. I mean how can it be heard in public that money paid into the court for a litigant cannot get to him?
And let me say this, I do not like the excuses you made for the judiciary staff using attached goods. Is it any reason to say that they do that because their employers do not provide for them in their offices?
It is like the argument of the police that it is because they are poorly paid that they take to extorting money from people on the streets.
So if these judiciary staff don’t have chairs and tables in their offices, why couldn’t they be as they are-standing up, so that everybody would know that their employer has not provided for them?
Editor’s Note: Point.
JUSTICE ADEBAJO
The Editor,
If you ask the average lawyer who practices in Badagry their opinion about the presiding judge of the Badagry High Court, Adebajo J. they would certainly talk very poorly about him. Lawyers and litigants are very bitter about this judge and quite a deluge of petitions are lodged against him to the immediate past chief judge of the state-: Adetula Alabi but to no avail.
For the past five years, that Adebajo J has come to Badagry High Court, it has been a tale of woes-certainly his period is a far cry from that of Justice Habeeb Abiru.
Please extend your focus to Badagry. Come and see and hear things for yourself. This judge has so badly conducted himself and in so brazen a manner that some senior lawyers have had occasions to lambast him during court sessions. Lawyers like Tunji Orisalade, Taiwo Kupolati have had open quarrels with him in court.
We invite you to come over to Badagry.
Editor’s Note: We will be there.
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
I called to express my enjoyment of the Squib. I have with me here, last week’s edition on the badly dressed lawyer and this week’s which focused on use of attached furniture in the Chief Judge’s office
Talking about the attached furniture, I think it is just a big shame. May be the Chief Judge is not even aware of the situation. May be somebody who has been given the contract to supply the chairs and tables has “eaten” the money and now arranged for the attached goods to be used in the offices.
I think your story on the dirty lawyer is absolutely necessary. The way some of our colleagues dress nowadays, youngsters would certainly run away from joining the legal profession since their dressing portray us as wretched people. And who wants to be a wretch?
Editor’s Note: Certainly not me!
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
Is this the way to treat a new wife? I refer to your cover story this week (use of attached furniture in the chief judge’s office). But let me ask you, how did you manage to get those pictures of those seats?
Well let me warn you that henceforth you have got to be very careful. The new Chief Judge is a terrible and vindictive person. Please watch your back. But talking seriously, it is through efforts like the Squib that we can get the broom to the floor to give it a clean sweep.
Editor’s Note: You said the new chief judge is my “wife”. If that’s true how come you are warning the husband against the wife? In fact I will tell, when I get home.
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
I wish to categorically state that your report listing our court (Justice Sola Williams) as one of the courts where attached furniture is used is not correct.
There is no such item in our court. I challenge you to point out a single item in this court room that is from the bailiffs section. You are free to look around.
Even when the seats for registrars and the seats in the dock and the witness box were bad, it was our judge who made new ones in replacement. We don’t use attached goods here.
Editor’s Note: Although we appreciate and respect your feelings but we stand by our story. Until our publication, there was at least one chair with markings from the sheriffs in your court. It is no longer there now.
ATTACHED GOODS
The Editor,
You are very right that the judiciary is using attached furniture in her offices. For example if you go to the Commissioner of Oaths Office in the Lagos High Court, the refrigerator there is an attached good. Likewise a standing fan in Mr. Farawe’s office, in the same department.
Editor’s Note:- Wonderful!
LAGOS JUDICIARY
The Editor,
I can tell you that the Lagos State judiciary has done far worse than converting or appropriating sets of furniture-belonging to litigants.
I have a case in my chambers where for about ten years now, the Lagos State Judiciary has sat on the money of our client, the judgement creditor in a decided case.
In fact after a time, we had to pay the client the money due to him from our chamber’s account, to save the face of the judiciary. I mean how can it be heard in public that money paid into the court for a litigant cannot get to him?
And let me say this, I do not like the excuses you made for the judiciary staff using attached goods. Is it any reason to say that they do that because their employers do not provide for them in their offices?
It is like the argument of the police that it is because they are poorly paid that they take to extorting money from people on the streets.
So if these judiciary staff don’t have chairs and tables in their offices, why couldn’t they be as they are-standing up, so that everybody would know that their employer has not provided for them?
Editor’s Note: Point.
JUSTICE ADEBAJO
The Editor,
If you ask the average lawyer who practices in Badagry their opinion about the presiding judge of the Badagry High Court, Adebajo J. they would certainly talk very poorly about him. Lawyers and litigants are very bitter about this judge and quite a deluge of petitions are lodged against him to the immediate past chief judge of the state-: Adetula Alabi but to no avail.
For the past five years, that Adebajo J has come to Badagry High Court, it has been a tale of woes-certainly his period is a far cry from that of Justice Habeeb Abiru.
Please extend your focus to Badagry. Come and see and hear things for yourself. This judge has so badly conducted himself and in so brazen a manner that some senior lawyers have had occasions to lambast him during court sessions. Lawyers like Tunji Orisalade, Taiwo Kupolati have had open quarrels with him in court.
We invite you to come over to Badagry.
Editor’s Note: We will be there.
Friday, November 20, 2009
VOL.10 NO.4
READERS PAVILION
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
Did you try discussing Sesan Akinlaja’s shabby appearance with him before you ‘bugged’ him in the Squib? As for me, it is twice now that I had advised him on need to improve on his terrible appearance.
Editor’s Note: So you too know him to be a shabby dresser?
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
It has become habitual for Julius Olusesan Akinlaja to dress shabbily. In fact I know him very well but I think the problem started when he lost his wife a few years back. Since that incident, he has not been himself again.
Editor’s Note: So sorry to hear about Mr. Akinlaja’s loss, nonetheless he needs to move on with his life and in fair and fine appearances too!
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
You this man, how many times have I advised that you take things easy with people God! See how heavily you fell on Akinlaja in this week’s edition. But then the truth is that he was so badly dressed on the New Legal Year day. In fact I had to call him aside to complain about his appearance and asked him if you are this dirty, how do you expect people to buy your books?
Editor’s Note: Good question.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
I was so excited, in fact thrilled reading your article on the shabbily dressed lawyer. Such a fellow should have been walked out of the occasion. You know there are lawyers who dress in such a way that you are ashamed to identify yourself as a lawyer. And one should blame seniors in the profession for their relaxed attitude to poor and improper dressing among lawyers.
I am 25 years at the bar now and remember when I was a new wig, how seniors would take up any lawyer who dressed improperly. In Lagos here, you can trust Kehinde Sofola S.A.N. to take you up on the colour or texture of your bibs etc.
Nowadays seniors no longer act that way and that’s not good for the profession.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Don’t you think that going by all these your stories one day all your victims will come together to donate canes to give you a collective thrashing? See how you mercilessly bugged this Mr. Sesan Akinlaja, the dirty lawyer. However I must concede that is a very interesting magazine and one doesn’t have to be a lawyer to enjoy it. For me I love reading the “Learned Squib article and the Readers’ Pavilion”. I don’t like the articles of the professor, too boring for me and the Case Law, I don’t touch-that’s for lawyers I am sure if the squib goes public, it will enjoy wide readership among non-lawyers. Give it a thought; after there are health magazines all over the place and they are not limited to doctors and nurses.
Anytime I read the Squib in my office, I’ll be smiling broadly and people used to wonder at me. On one occasion I invited an enquiring colleague to read what I found so amusing. The next thing was for her to burst out laughing infact she said if she were in my shoes, instead of merely smiling broadly like I have been doing, she’d be on the floor, rolling with mirth!
Editor’s Note: Thank you. Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Now that I have met you, I shall remember to put you in my prayers. When I first saw you, I think in Justice Obadina’s court, I was surprised at your looks. I wondered to myself, how could somebody looking so gentle and calm-write such hot stuff.
And to think that you write all these things, walking about freely and without any security. You must be close to close. But for your efforts in the Squib, the Judiciary would have been much worse.
Editor’s Note: To God only, be the glory.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I think it is high time, you extended your crusade to the Court of Appeal, Lagos I don’t know what that court is turning to. For the past two weeks now, two whole weeks after coming back from vacation, the court has not been sitting. A fortnight ago, they said the judges went for a conference and only last week, they said the judges had been summoned to Abuja by the Supreme Court or was it the NJC?
This is no way for a Court of Appeal to be run.
Editor’s Note: I think we’ll look in the direction of ‘upstairs’ very soon.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to thank you so much for the Squib. I believe the Squib is one of your callings. You know everyman has his own calling….. not everybody could do the squib. You have the courage. Thank you so much.
Editor’s Note: Really, it is God we should thank. Always.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I just want to thank you for the Squib. Oh, how I do thoroughly enjoy that magazine, so interesting and informative.
Editor’s Note: Thank you. Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I overheard one of our “charge and bail” colleagues telling some people that one had better start dressing well, otherwise, the Squib would just put one’s photograph on the cover of the magazine.
Editor’s Note: Just like that?
SQUIB
The Editor,
Man of courage. Salutations.
Editor’s Note: To God only be the glory
SQUIB
The Editor,
On the basis of the Squib you should be given the S.A.N award
Editor’s Note: Yee pa! who dash monkey banana?
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
Did you try discussing Sesan Akinlaja’s shabby appearance with him before you ‘bugged’ him in the Squib? As for me, it is twice now that I had advised him on need to improve on his terrible appearance.
Editor’s Note: So you too know him to be a shabby dresser?
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
It has become habitual for Julius Olusesan Akinlaja to dress shabbily. In fact I know him very well but I think the problem started when he lost his wife a few years back. Since that incident, he has not been himself again.
Editor’s Note: So sorry to hear about Mr. Akinlaja’s loss, nonetheless he needs to move on with his life and in fair and fine appearances too!
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
You this man, how many times have I advised that you take things easy with people God! See how heavily you fell on Akinlaja in this week’s edition. But then the truth is that he was so badly dressed on the New Legal Year day. In fact I had to call him aside to complain about his appearance and asked him if you are this dirty, how do you expect people to buy your books?
Editor’s Note: Good question.
DIRTY LAWYER
The Editor,
I was so excited, in fact thrilled reading your article on the shabbily dressed lawyer. Such a fellow should have been walked out of the occasion. You know there are lawyers who dress in such a way that you are ashamed to identify yourself as a lawyer. And one should blame seniors in the profession for their relaxed attitude to poor and improper dressing among lawyers.
I am 25 years at the bar now and remember when I was a new wig, how seniors would take up any lawyer who dressed improperly. In Lagos here, you can trust Kehinde Sofola S.A.N. to take you up on the colour or texture of your bibs etc.
Nowadays seniors no longer act that way and that’s not good for the profession.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Don’t you think that going by all these your stories one day all your victims will come together to donate canes to give you a collective thrashing? See how you mercilessly bugged this Mr. Sesan Akinlaja, the dirty lawyer. However I must concede that is a very interesting magazine and one doesn’t have to be a lawyer to enjoy it. For me I love reading the “Learned Squib article and the Readers’ Pavilion”. I don’t like the articles of the professor, too boring for me and the Case Law, I don’t touch-that’s for lawyers I am sure if the squib goes public, it will enjoy wide readership among non-lawyers. Give it a thought; after there are health magazines all over the place and they are not limited to doctors and nurses.
Anytime I read the Squib in my office, I’ll be smiling broadly and people used to wonder at me. On one occasion I invited an enquiring colleague to read what I found so amusing. The next thing was for her to burst out laughing infact she said if she were in my shoes, instead of merely smiling broadly like I have been doing, she’d be on the floor, rolling with mirth!
Editor’s Note: Thank you. Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Now that I have met you, I shall remember to put you in my prayers. When I first saw you, I think in Justice Obadina’s court, I was surprised at your looks. I wondered to myself, how could somebody looking so gentle and calm-write such hot stuff.
And to think that you write all these things, walking about freely and without any security. You must be close to close. But for your efforts in the Squib, the Judiciary would have been much worse.
Editor’s Note: To God only, be the glory.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I think it is high time, you extended your crusade to the Court of Appeal, Lagos I don’t know what that court is turning to. For the past two weeks now, two whole weeks after coming back from vacation, the court has not been sitting. A fortnight ago, they said the judges went for a conference and only last week, they said the judges had been summoned to Abuja by the Supreme Court or was it the NJC?
This is no way for a Court of Appeal to be run.
Editor’s Note: I think we’ll look in the direction of ‘upstairs’ very soon.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I want to thank you so much for the Squib. I believe the Squib is one of your callings. You know everyman has his own calling….. not everybody could do the squib. You have the courage. Thank you so much.
Editor’s Note: Really, it is God we should thank. Always.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I just want to thank you for the Squib. Oh, how I do thoroughly enjoy that magazine, so interesting and informative.
Editor’s Note: Thank you. Please keep reading, we’ll keep squibbing.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I overheard one of our “charge and bail” colleagues telling some people that one had better start dressing well, otherwise, the Squib would just put one’s photograph on the cover of the magazine.
Editor’s Note: Just like that?
SQUIB
The Editor,
Man of courage. Salutations.
Editor’s Note: To God only be the glory
SQUIB
The Editor,
On the basis of the Squib you should be given the S.A.N award
Editor’s Note: Yee pa! who dash monkey banana?
Thursday, November 19, 2009
VOL.10 NO. 3
READERS’ PAVILION
WORKERS’ SALARY
The Editor,
I am appealing to you to help us press the authorities, particularly the new Chief Judge to do something about our poor salaries.
Our salaries are simply too poor-what can somebody do with #10,000.00 for a month in this Lagos?
If we are well paid, we (judiciary workers) will not be running after lawyers even judges to ask for one favour or the other.
I remember how greatly embarrassed I was one day when I ran into one of judges at the Island club. Because I had little money on me, I approached him for some assistance. To my shame the judge loudly and airily declared “You Judiciary workers are used to fine bara”.
I felt so humiliated, but the judge’s friends gave me money and made him to give me also.
Editor’s Note: Struggle is the only answer. Dare to struggle, Dare to win
OKUNNU J.
The Editor,
Why did you write in your response to a reader’s complaint about Justice Okunnu, that the complaint is a lie? (Don’t you know that the judge actually is rude and hostile to lawyers?)
Editor’s Note: Honestly, I don’t know.
BOOK EXCERPTS
The Editor,
I am a regular of your magazine. I have just finished with the book excerpts “A TUDOR DAY”. That was right marigh! It was
Editor’s Note: But I enjoyed reading it?
SMALL BOY
The Editor,
So you are such a small boy, only 45 years old! I got to know that when I read your Learned Friend article “Sweet Father”. I was just laughing when I was reading the article. Small boy you should be ashamed of yourself, you got tired when a 78 years old was still going strong!
Editor’s Note: I am not ashamed O. After all the baba is my baba. You wait till I become 78 years old!
SQUIB
The Editor,
At #500.00, the squib has become expensive for common people like us to buy. Please do something about it
Editor’s Note: Fear not. Regular Squib remains #200.00 per copy.
WORKERS’ SALARY
The Editor,
I am appealing to you to help us press the authorities, particularly the new Chief Judge to do something about our poor salaries.
Our salaries are simply too poor-what can somebody do with #10,000.00 for a month in this Lagos?
If we are well paid, we (judiciary workers) will not be running after lawyers even judges to ask for one favour or the other.
I remember how greatly embarrassed I was one day when I ran into one of judges at the Island club. Because I had little money on me, I approached him for some assistance. To my shame the judge loudly and airily declared “You Judiciary workers are used to fine bara”.
I felt so humiliated, but the judge’s friends gave me money and made him to give me also.
Editor’s Note: Struggle is the only answer. Dare to struggle, Dare to win
OKUNNU J.
The Editor,
Why did you write in your response to a reader’s complaint about Justice Okunnu, that the complaint is a lie? (Don’t you know that the judge actually is rude and hostile to lawyers?)
Editor’s Note: Honestly, I don’t know.
BOOK EXCERPTS
The Editor,
I am a regular of your magazine. I have just finished with the book excerpts “A TUDOR DAY”. That was right marigh! It was
Editor’s Note: But I enjoyed reading it?
SMALL BOY
The Editor,
So you are such a small boy, only 45 years old! I got to know that when I read your Learned Friend article “Sweet Father”. I was just laughing when I was reading the article. Small boy you should be ashamed of yourself, you got tired when a 78 years old was still going strong!
Editor’s Note: I am not ashamed O. After all the baba is my baba. You wait till I become 78 years old!
SQUIB
The Editor,
At #500.00, the squib has become expensive for common people like us to buy. Please do something about it
Editor’s Note: Fear not. Regular Squib remains #200.00 per copy.
VOL.10 NO. 2
READERS’ PAVILION
SQUIB
The Editor,
Why did you increase the cover price of the Squib to #500.00. That’s too much for us o. Although I could see you have quite a lot of photographs in there.
Editor’s Note: The #500.00 price is for this bumper edition (Vol 10 No 1) only.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I have bought the Squib but I have not read it. Let me tell you how I enjoy my Squib-I read it in a relaxed atmosphere in the company of cold beer.
Editor’s note: Wow!
NEW LEGAL YEAR
The Editor,
I think you just have to write about the New Legal Year Ceremony of yesterday (Monday 28 September 2009) It was simply wonderful colourful and fantastic. What a show and even members of the public wondered what celebrations we were at while it lasted. There was plenty to it, even at 4.00pm. I still got a hot plate of amala and ewedu. One could see difference between this new administration and its predecessor, Alabi (C.J).
You know unlike those other Chief Judges who just “chop” allocations, this mama (Akande C.J) just ordered that the allocation for the New Legal Year Ceremony be fully and well spent.
Look at those tents, the decorations especially the marque set up for judges and Senior Advocates of Nigeria. This is a good beginning.
Editor’s Note: And may it continue to the end.
GANI
The Editor,
When gain dead and people were lamenting, I told them (our colleagues) not to despair, that there is another Gani in our midst in your person. They however doubted whether you could rise to that level but I assured them that in time you will be like that why I didn’t consider my own very self to become a Gani, was because I know that I don’t have the courage of people like you to fight against wrongs in the country.
Editor’s Note: Just let my wife catch you!
OKUNNU J.
The Editor,
By God it is high time something was done about Justice Okunnu. Oh what a maddeningly rude judge? She can be so discourteous and nasty to counsel. Imagine a judge shouting on counsel to shut up! Sit down! Etc. I think the NBA should take up this matter with the Chief Judge, so that this embarrassment can stop.
Only about two weeks ago, she so upset a lawyer with her rudeness that the counsel was prepared to even beat her up in court.
Yes I agree she is an industrious and quite organised a judge. You have to say that of her but her terrible temperament and comportment is such a huge munus.
Editor’s Note: It’s a lie! Are we talking of the one and same Justice Okuunu here, the child of Alhaji Femi Okunnu S.A.N and Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former Deputy Governor? Well, trust us to investigate.
SQUIB
The Editor,
Why did you increase the cover price of the Squib to #500.00. That’s too much for us o. Although I could see you have quite a lot of photographs in there.
Editor’s Note: The #500.00 price is for this bumper edition (Vol 10 No 1) only.
SQUIB
The Editor,
I have bought the Squib but I have not read it. Let me tell you how I enjoy my Squib-I read it in a relaxed atmosphere in the company of cold beer.
Editor’s note: Wow!
NEW LEGAL YEAR
The Editor,
I think you just have to write about the New Legal Year Ceremony of yesterday (Monday 28 September 2009) It was simply wonderful colourful and fantastic. What a show and even members of the public wondered what celebrations we were at while it lasted. There was plenty to it, even at 4.00pm. I still got a hot plate of amala and ewedu. One could see difference between this new administration and its predecessor, Alabi (C.J).
You know unlike those other Chief Judges who just “chop” allocations, this mama (Akande C.J) just ordered that the allocation for the New Legal Year Ceremony be fully and well spent.
Look at those tents, the decorations especially the marque set up for judges and Senior Advocates of Nigeria. This is a good beginning.
Editor’s Note: And may it continue to the end.
GANI
The Editor,
When gain dead and people were lamenting, I told them (our colleagues) not to despair, that there is another Gani in our midst in your person. They however doubted whether you could rise to that level but I assured them that in time you will be like that why I didn’t consider my own very self to become a Gani, was because I know that I don’t have the courage of people like you to fight against wrongs in the country.
Editor’s Note: Just let my wife catch you!
OKUNNU J.
The Editor,
By God it is high time something was done about Justice Okunnu. Oh what a maddeningly rude judge? She can be so discourteous and nasty to counsel. Imagine a judge shouting on counsel to shut up! Sit down! Etc. I think the NBA should take up this matter with the Chief Judge, so that this embarrassment can stop.
Only about two weeks ago, she so upset a lawyer with her rudeness that the counsel was prepared to even beat her up in court.
Yes I agree she is an industrious and quite organised a judge. You have to say that of her but her terrible temperament and comportment is such a huge munus.
Editor’s Note: It’s a lie! Are we talking of the one and same Justice Okuunu here, the child of Alhaji Femi Okunnu S.A.N and Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former Deputy Governor? Well, trust us to investigate.
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