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Lawyer, I suppose Blankason mentioned that those who cannot take the risk should wait? I don't think he has said anything wrong. He himself concluded that it's a risk. But that doesn't mean that such type of transactions aren't real. I was privy to draft a document which was the foundation of such transactions sometime last year. At the end, excission was granted and gazetted within just few months for less than the number of acres applied for. I was surprised how things work here. The experience I gained, if you know your way in Nigeria, you can move the apparatus of govt to act for your benefit.

The blame lies in those in govt and greedy Nigerians who don't want to pay a lawyer. Why is the master plan of Lagos inaccessible? Why would any diligent person buy a property without consulting a solicitor for advice? That old customary way of buying/leasing/pledging family land in the old village system is a high risk. It doesn't work anymore. People should learn from the recent demolitions in Lagos State.

Oust15: With the release of the new Facebook Home, it will solidify their stronghold.

Facebook Home nah just launcher/widget be dat. Wait make dem release Key Lime Pie, Android guys will undo Home.

Google all the way. At least Google respects privacy than Facebook.

uihebom: Guy if you no explain your self now , I go reason think
begin shout Fr**D o!!

damselle00: Me mysef dey reason say na fraud. Especially d part dat he claimed “one year”. Shey him be isp nii?

LWKMD

eldoradoxx: Koruji, please understand that city is not the same as State. Therefore city of Lagos connotes different meaning from Lagos state and state of Lagos

Eldoradoxx thanks for making him understand. But it seems he doesn't want to. America is a diff jurisdiction from Nigeria. Yet we keep copying from them blindly. Another example is the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011 that has an inherent lacuna and must be reviewed as soon as possible. When the court decides on that tomorrow, some folks will blame judges and others PDP or CAN.

XIII in play here in Nigeria

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koruji: Where is your precedence that says "Osun State" cannot be called "State of Osun"?

I don’t really like it when you appear to insult people on forums. We are meant to solve issues in forums. And you don’t have to be negatively aggressive all the time.

This post will be quite lengthy and as I said before there’s a long chain of precedents to guide us here. I’m not at home now, so I’ll make do with my previous written arguments in court with similar issue. I’ll add more cases when I get home.

Although there is no direct pronouncement on the issue of State of (Lagos) by an appellate court in Nigeria. I don’t know of any for now. However, there are lots of cases to bind the courts to favour ‘Lagos State’ as against ‘State of Lagos’. Unless the appellate court is willing to overrule itself on this.

Response
1. The Constitution referred to the states in s.3 as States of the Federation and not State of Lagos.

2. By convention, these federating units (entities) in Nigeria have always used the word state in addition to and at the end of their names. Why the sudden change and would that help our law?

3. What then is the position of the law as to discrepancies in names of juristic persons whether natural or artificial? To answer this question, we have to embark on a voyage to case law.

Supreme Court decision on natural persons
In Esenowo v. Ukpong (1996) 6 NWLR (Pt.608) 611, there was disparity in the name of the Appellant who is a Medical Practitioner and the name in the register of the Medical Council. The name with which the Appellant was operating was stated as “Dr. E.J. Esenowo”, while the name on the register of the Medical and Dental Council was stated as “Dr. J.E. Esenowo.” In rejecting the argument that the two names are the same, the Supreme Court held at page 621, paragraphs B-D as follows:

“… the gravamen of this appeal was that the Plaintiff signed Exhibit P and P1 as “Dr. E.J. Esenowo” whereas the name listed in the 1980 Nigerian Medical Register reads “Dr. J.E. Esenowo”. Ordinarily, there is a world of difference in the arrangement of the initials listed in Exhibit E and those stated in Exhibit P and P1 by the Plaintiff… Clearly, there was need to furnish some lucid explanation otherwise it would be unacceptable to accede, by the judgment of the trial Judge, that it will be too simplistic to hold that the name “Dr. E.J. Esenowo” is the same as “Dr. J.E. Esenowo.”

Put pointedly, “State of Lagos” is not a person known to law at present and as such, cannot be a victim of crime or enforce one. It does not have a standi. The kernel of this argument is that the ‘State of (Lagos)’ has NEVER been given judicial pronouncement in our case law but Lagos State has been pronounced upon.

Court of Appeal on corporate entities (artificial entities)
This is the category where States fall in. The law with respect to proper names of corporate entities, be it corporation sole or corporation aggregate is even stricter, as no corporate entity can validly act outside the name with which the entity is registered or incorporated. The courts have recognized this point and have in several cases reiterated this principle over and over again. Once there is such alteration in the name of the party in a judicial proceeding, such has always been treated as being a fundamental defect which renders the entire proceedings a nullity. In Fagbola v. Titilayo Plastic Ind. Ltd. (2005) 2 NWLR (Pt.909) 1 at 19-20, paragraphs F-A, Murtaka-Coomassie, JCA, stated the principle as follows:

“The circumstances of the appointment of the receiver/manager in this case are quite in doubt and not properly made and the illusory position of the different names. These cannot be termed irregularities. They are fundamental defects. In other words, the whole affairs surrounding the appointment of the receiver/manager were shrouded in confusion and uncertainty, making me to believe that those defects were fundamental which cannot be readily cured.…In the case at hand, the name on the originating process is “Simon Fadeyibi” while on the one said to be appointed as a receiver is “Simon Ololade Fadeyibi.” (underlining supplied)

Similarly, in the more recent case of Umar v. W.G.G. (Nig) Ltd. (2007) 7 NWLR (Pt.1032) 117, the respondent which is an incorporated company was sued in respect of a contract in which its name appeared as White Gold Ginnery Limited as against its real name which is White Gold Ginnery Nigeria Limited. In striking out the action against the company as Respondent, Kekere-Ekun, JCA, held at page 142 paragraphs E-H as follows:

“By virtue of Section 37 of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap 59, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990 the respondent in this appeal can only contract, sue and/or be sued in its corporate name: White Gold Ginnery Nigeria Ltd. As found by the learned trial Judge in his ruling there is no ambiguity regarding the fact that from the record before the court, all the transactions were between the two Appellants and a Company called White Gold Ginnery Ltd and not White Gold Ginnery Nigeria Ltd (the present respondent)…The facts before the courts were that the appellants based their application against the respondent, White Gold Ginnery Nigeria Ltd on documents executed between them and a company called White Gold Ginnery Ltd. I am unable to fault the finding of the learned trial judge that the appellants had failed to establish their locus to institute the proceedings against the respondent.”

Based on the foregoing, it is my submission that, the argument that says ‘(Lagos) State and ‘State of (Lagos)’ are the same is a bankrupt argument and an exercise in futility. Secondly, the law at present favours (Lagos) State as against State of (Lagos) because Lagos State has been pronounced on in a plethora of cases but State of Lagos has never seen the light of day. Thirdly, under the doctrine of stare decisis, the courts will let a sleeping dog to lie. Thus, the law as it now will not be disturbed. See Attorney-General Lagos State v. Eko Hotels Ltd. (2008) All FWLR (Pt. 398) 235; ADEJUMO AND ANOR v. GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE (citation omitted)

I hope this piece helps to resolve this issue.

Please why are they (banks) still charging N10 for alerts?

Let's not be sentimental about this issue. OP pls seek legal advice when necessary.

There's a long standing precedent of the Supreme Court on this issue. The law is clear and certain whether it's an SAN or not, PDP or what have you. The 'State of Lagos' is different from 'Lagos State' and so is 'Federal Govt of Nigeria' diff from 'Federal Republic of Nigeria'. It is trite law that you cannot substitute a non-juristic person with a juristic person. The Constitution only gave legal personality to Lagos State or Federal Republic of Nigeria as the case may be and not otherwise. There's a long chain of case law on this issue, yet we keep seeing SANs making this blunders everyday.

Somebody should sue this MTN imagine they deducted over 2k from my friends phone while his BIS is still on. Nigerians are just too weak. Huh

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samuelkanu: He should teach you what conditions are to be meant before you enter a trade and the trades should be executed by you in his presence.

I'll engage him on the terms you suggested. Thanks a lot man.

samuelkanu: Before you think of engaging anybody to teach you make sure he or she is an active trader.

Thank you very much Samuel, I appreciate your reality answer. I was actually with him for some hours today. I saw his live accounts in different platforms, Meta4, FXCM and others. He has been trading for 5years now and still counting. One of the terms is that I won't enter live until after some time but he'd trade on my behalf. I just want to know if the $200 is cool for it? Thanks once again.

Hey folks, thanks for the thread, it's quite educative. I'm new to forex and was wondering if I should put my money in it. I have $1k to invest but the person I'm dealing with said he'd collect $200 if he'd tutor me on how it works. Do you think it's worth it. Secondly, what's the ROI if I invest $1k. Thanks peeps for your contributions peeps, I'm really interested in this and will rely on your advice.

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Still up

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It can't fly for 35K, I'm sorry
Still rocking

Op, you no mention lapkalapka?

Nice one. Any for games? I doubt.

Rocking

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Sometimes when I look at Nigeria, I wonder how things would change for the better. Most of us agree that the major obstruction to our progress is the quality of leadership, but then we have had some good quality personnel in government they still failed us. We have tried all kinds of people. We have tried illiterates and semi-literates. We have tried graduates and PhDs. We have tried third-class, second-class and first-class degree holders. We have tried home-based and foreign-based. We have tried men and women. We have tried the old and the young. Yet the results are the same. Abject greed of the First Order and gross incompetence.

I was wondering, as many of you do, weather it will ever get better. Whenever I talk to young people in Nigeria, the common statement has been ‘I will wait for my turn’ or probably ‘if you too are there you will do worse things’. How on earth would someone put such a statement in his/her subconscious mind. Certainly, the saying, a good name is better than gold and silver can only be heard and seen in Tales by Moonlight (a Nigerian folklore). Are we cursed as a nation? I cry for this country.

Lately, I volunteered to visit public schools in Abuja and find out the little things we could do to help out. I was shocked and speechless. The of the fairest stories was a public school that has no paid teacher. It was just a block of two classrooms; one of the two classrooms is for PRIMARY ONE THROUGH SIX. So, I was wondering how the pupils would learn. The supposed teacher we met there said they collect N50 from each pupil on a daily basis to offset recurrent expenditures. The most annoying aspect of the whole scenario is that away from the school, not more than 10km, lays the Three Arms Zone. What I saw all over the north was pockets of dirty, starving, homeless children begging for food and nobody seems to care. When I retired that evening at Suncity Estate, I discovered that a serving senator was building a hotel in a strictly residential part of the estate and nobody could do anything because he’s a senator. An estate where you have the likes of John Fashenu and the likes. Umuna, an MP in the British Parliament boards the same train I take whenever he is commuting.

Every time, we read stories of pensioners collapsing and dying while queuing up endlessly for their entitlements. What most of these senior citizens live through the month is perhaps NGR 10,000 or a little more. Yet, it is hell for them to get it. Some wicked souls in government stash the funds away in foreign accounts, turning themselves into billionaires at the expense of old people who laboured all their lives for this country.

Every day, what I see in the Federal High Court, Abuja and Lagos are cases bordering on money laundering. Nigerians trying to smuggle out hundreds of thousands of dollars into foreign countries. As usual, these were the ones that were caught, perhaps those that didn’t oil the palms of the security agencies.

The stories are endless. What a nation. If there was/is a Nigerian, the country would not have been this bad. Why do we waste our money on a few blockheads who add no value to the populace? When will this type of market close? Is it safe to conclude that Nigeria is FINISHED? Should we be optimistic about Nigeria. Who is a Nigerian? Should we go back to the drawing board and stop playing the OSTRICH? What is the way forward? How can we strategies to ensure we put the right people in public offices, starting from the councillors? Can we say that our religious leaders have failed us by asking us to pray when there is fire on the mountain?

One thing is for certain, it will NEVER get better if we continue like this. In fact, the more we keep quiet and do nothing, the more we make our children endangered generation. I think we have to organise ourselves and strategize. How can we achieve this? Obviously, we don’t have an alternative political party because all the parties are different but with similar interest, loot the treasury and create anti-people policy.

What is your own view and how do you think we can transform this nation?

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