BluntCrazeMan:


Source:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/02/uk-signs-deal-to-allow-british-lawyers-practise-in-nigeria/

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-signs-landmark-economic-partnership-with-nigeria

Kc3000:
Can Nigerian lawyers equally practice in the same capacity in the UK? Just asking, because our folks in government sabi mumu.

DeLaRue:


Oh please.

UK law firms are not an arm of the UK government.

The idea that the UK can forcefully deploy soldiers and build UK-owned barracks in Nigeria is preposterous.

UK doesn't have the power or the means to do that.

The most powerful country in the world, the USA, asked to station its military in Nigeria to help combat ISIS and other terrorists in the Sahel. Nigeria declined. The US went to Niger instead.

Nigeria is not a small country. A country of over 200 million people no be beans.

The US can't push Nigeria around let alone small, broke UK.

baby124:
If it’s not fully reciprocated then the idiot that signed this nonsense should be arrested and have their brain removed.

BluntCrazeMan:


Source:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/02/uk-signs-deal-to-allow-british-lawyers-practise-in-nigeria/

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-signs-landmark-economic-partnership-with-nigeria

Coldspice:
We do IELTS to attend their schools but one blockhead is signings deal that will allow their lawyers practice here.

Zetty177x:


I have Nigerian friends who practiced there but were not allowed to practice law there. These people read law in UK Universities o. They told me because of accent or so...that they DON'T employ them. Some go back to cleaning and security jobs.

santaclaws:
If it isn't a two-way deal (i.e. also allowing Nigerian lawyers to practise in the UK) then it makes no sense.

That's another form of economic exploitation cos it would make Nigerian law firms irrelevant to people who would have hired them from the UK.

BluntCrazeMan:
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This one that UK originated the whole idea,, I am beginning to suspect foul-play here Ooo

Gbadugbakun:
Britain wants to recolonize us again.

thesicilian:
The deal should simultaneously also allow Nigerian lawyers practice in UK without extra qualifications. If not whoever agreed to that deal is a fool

Nyouth:
una dey craze since they left you people what have you been able to do for yourselves black monkeys

DeLaRue:


1. Nigerian lawyers have been able to practice in the UK for a long time by writing a simple test called the Qualified Lawyers Transfer test. Even without the test, you can still practice, just that you have to inform prospective clients you are a 'Foreign Lawyer'.

2. UK law firms that set up office in Nigeria will primarily be targeting commercial/business/cross-border transactions. 99% of their work willl be office based. It is unlikely you'll see them wearing a robe and appearing in a court, even though though they might be able to do so.

These people are not coming here to handle Chieftancy, land, election matters, or Mr A ran away with my wife type of cases etc

They will be targeting big transactions.

BluntCrazeMan:


Source:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/02/uk-signs-deal-to-allow-british-lawyers-practise-in-nigeria/

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-signs-landmark-economic-partnership-with-nigeria

Jman06:
You're actually the airhead here, because it is on record that we had the best of education during the colonial era with university of Ibadan being a campus of the university college London. Many of our professors and professionals today were educated by the colonial masters. Then Nigerians didn't need visa to travel abroad and many were offered scholarships to study in choice universities abroad.

Infrastructures done by colonial masters were of high quality. Those roads and bridges constructed by the British colonial leaders stood the test of time. Our people got the best of healthcare as British doctors were the ones in charge of healthcare. Same British doctors were the ones who later trained our people on orthodox medicine which then replaced our crude and ineffective traditional medicine practice.

The list goes on

South Africa is much more developed today than Nigeria because the colonial masters stayed longer there compared to Nigeria that hurriedly got Independence only for our evil and selfish politicians to start looting our common wealth instead of developing the country. Sometimes, I wish that the colonial masters stayed longer in Nigeria. I'm sure the country would have been better than it is today.

BluntCrazeMan:



That's another question that needs to be answered by those who are signing this deal.

Kc3000:
Can Nigerian lawyers equally practice in the same capacity in the UK? Just asking, because our folks in government sabi mumu.

Jman06:
You're actually the airhead here, because it is on record that we had the best of education during the colonial era with university of Ibadan being a campus of the university college London.

Many of our professors and professionals today were educated by the colonial masters. Then Nigerians didn't need visa to travel abroad and many were offered scholarships to study in choice universities abroad.

Infrastructures done by colonial masters were of high quality. Those roads and bridges constructed by the British colonial leaders stood the test of time.

Our people got the best of healthcare as British doctors were the ones in charge of healthcare. Same British doctors were the ones who later trained our people on orthodox medicine which then replaced our crude and ineffective traditional medicine practice.

South Africa is much more developed today than Nigeria because the colonial masters stayed longer there compared to Nigeria that hurriedly got Independence only for our evil and selfish politicians to start looting our common wealth instead of developing the country.

Sometimes, I wish that the colonial masters stayed longer in Nigeria. I'm sure the country would have been better than it is today.

Coldspice:
We do IELTS to attend their schools but one blockhead is signings deal that will allow their lawyers practice here.