I have noticed a particular trend that seems to be flying around all over Nigeria. It is palpably obvious that many Nigerians would never make a will because of their irrational fear that making a will means that their death date is fast approaching. So, the average Nigerian has a petrifying fear of having to make a will for the disposition of their properties upon the time of their deaths. Many people don't even know the extent of the wealth of their loved ones, so we see estates languishing upon the deaths of the owners.

Stemming from the above, a lot of wealthy people don't have Wills to detail precisely how they would want their estate to be shared when they die. At least, with Wills, there's a detailed inventory of the properties owned by the person involved.

So, when a person dies l, the wives, brothers or children of the deceased will start asking several questions like : ‘How do I recover the money my father had in so-and-so bank?’

The above question seems to be the predominant preoccupation with many people across several social media sites and forums. Many people have been kept off the monies owned by their dead loved ones because they don't know the procedure.


WHAT TO DO?

When a relation dies, and the personal representatives of that deceased persons knows that the deceased has some sums of money with any Nigerian bank, then that is no cause for alarm. There are laid down procedures involved. DO NOT walk into any bank, expecting them to remit the funds in the bank account of your father or mother simply because of the fact that you were his/her son/daughter. The banking system does not work that way. There are regulations that govern their activity and they must follow those regulations to the letter.

STEPS TO RECOVER THE MONEY OF A DEAD RELATIVE FROM A NIGERIAN BANK

When a person dies, and the deceased person’s family is sure that such person has undisclosed sums of money in any Nigerian bank, then there are certain procedures to follow in order to recover the said sums of money. DO NOT, on the grounds that you know the ATM card code number of the person, walk to any available ATM, slot the card in, and start making withdrawals. That will simply not do; your actions are illegal.

Also, what if the sums in the account name runs to the millions? How will you recover them then? By walking to the ATM everyday of your life, inserting the card of the deceased customer, and then making countless withdrawals from the account under the hot sun while the other customers watch you? No? I don’t think so too.

So, what to do to recover the money of a deceased relative who died intestate from the bank:

After you have had the time to mourn the passing of the relative, then, if there is a will, the executors will obtain probate at the Probate registry of the court in the location of the domicile of the deceased and then commence the dissolution of the estate. In this case, while I'll agree that the process is quite involved and time consuming, there's nothing to worry about.

Where the person died intestate_ without making a last will and testament for the purpose of the dissolution of his estate_ then the personal representatives will apply to the court for the issuance of letters of administration. It's an involved process as well, but that is the way to go to recover the money in your late loved one's account.

After the letters of administration has been obtained and the necessary fees paid on the estate to the Probate Registry, then the appointed administrators and/or administratrix of the estate of the deceased person will now commence the recovery of the assets in the estate of the deceased.

The administrators and/or administratrix of the estate will take the letters of administration (which is the primary evidence of their authority to dispose of the estate) to the bank(s) where the deceased had accounts.

Then they will recover the money from the Nigerian bank account of the estate of the deceased.

FINAL NOTE: Nigerians face a lot of seemingly insurmountable problems when it comes to the recovery of the assets of their deceased loved ones, particularly if they had no idea that the properties existed in the first place. But with a little foresight and legal guidance, they can avoid all these pitfalls.

Most time, when I am bored, I start working on something. In August 2018 I registered a domain for a website; paid for the hosting and everything with a nigerian company. I was having serious server downtime issues with the hosting company and I wanted to migrate the hosting from Nigeria to either the USA or UK or elsewhere. Sometime in November 2018, a colleague walked up to me and asked me to lend him the sum of ₦30,000. It was the publication fee for his article in one the Law journals in Nigeria. I didn’t have this sum and so couldn’t help out when he asked for it, but it made me wonder: if this guy can spend this sum of money to publish an article with a journal, then I can spend something similar to get a better hosting company.

So I did. I registered www.kabbiz.com and purchased hosting for it outside Nigeria. Then, i developed one aim: just to make as much money as I could with this website. I set up Google Adsense immediately and was accepted into the program. I also created a page that showcased that fact that I was a content writer and needed gigs.

However, I didn’t feel fulfilled. The ads were running on the site but my readership wasn’t much because the site was new and didn’t have much content. However, by the time January 2019 came around, I resolved the overhaul the entire site. I deleted the contents of the site, plus, removed all ads on the site. I drew up a new sitemap. I wanted to focus on digital consulting and other related areas.

Just like that, Kabbiz was born. In the real sense of it. Digital consulting, digital strategy, branding, web design, content marketing through visual storytelling and all that. It took shape. I spent a lot of time overhauling the site and redoing it to fit the new mold I was creating for it.

Then I started spending yet more time on Kabbiz, plotting strategy, creating new social media channels for it because I wanted to take an omni-channel approach. I took Kabbiz more seriously. Every day, I spent time studying actively on the areas Kabbiz was created for. I had people now calling me asking for advise. I had some clients.

Everyday I continue working on Kabbiz, and everyday I am amazed at the new things I keep discovering in the realm of digital marketing and consulting.

Has it been easy? No. Do I trust the process? The answer is yes.

Kabbiz started out as an acronym, then it grew into a blog which I wanted to make ad money off of, and from there on to a full-scale digital consultancy that focuses on law and consulting firms.


I intend to watch it and see what it will become in the future.

Hi,
I would like to know if you need a domicilliary account to be able to Receive money from Skrill or just your naira bank account. That's what I consider confusing. Does anyone know this?

Op, here are the steps you take to evict a tenant

1. Write and serve the requisite quit notice. Please note that if there is a tenancy agreement between the two of you put down in writing, and there's a stipulation pertaining to the amount of time to be given as notice, then use it. If not, and he's a yearly tenant, then you serve a six months notice to quit to him.

2. Following the service of the notice to quit, you can also issue a letter of demand to said tenant, giving him time within which to repay all monies owed and the time, if he continues defaulting in payment, to Commence action for recovery of unpaid rent.

3. After the notice to quit expires, you issue a one week owners intention to recover possession.

4. Upon its expiration; the one week notice, you Institute an action for recovery of premises.

NB. It is better to engage the services of a lawyer for all these.


Ani Kingsley Ugochukwu Esq.

You want to buy a land in Nigeria, and the reason is simply because of the fact that you have acquired the money. It is marvelous, really, because land is the best piece of investment a person can chuck his money into. Land, unlike other investment, can only appreciate in value over the years; it can never depreciate. Its value only goes up, not down.

NB: this is a very long post about the entirety of what you need to know about making land purchases in Nigeria, so be warned that you might stay on this page longer than you think.

However, before you rush off to make that purchase of the land and transfer all your life savings into the account of a total stranger all simply because of the fact that he told you that he is the legal owner of the land, there are certain factors you have to check in before you pay. It is called Legal Due Diligence. If you do not conduct your Due Diligence, you may succeed in buying the land, but you will definitely suffer for it in the years to come.

[b]The Need for Legal Due Diligence in Land Transactions.

[/b]Many people think that they can play smart and pull of a land transaction without contracting the services of a certified professional in the field to handle certain matters for them. Well, they are wrong.
When trying to delve into a land transaction, the purchaser should endeavor to contract the services of these two sets of individuals:

1 A legal practitioner
2 An estate surveyor/ valuer

A legal practitioner, if and when consulted in a land purchase transaction, is the one responsible for conducting the legal due diligence on the land the purchaser intends to purchase. He is the person that will look into certain matters pertaining to the land:

He is the one to request for the epitome and abstract of title from the vendor

He is the one to check for patent and latent defects on the land

He is the one to check court records, probate registry records, conduct land registry search, amongst others, and then prepare the search report in which he will give his client either the go-ahead to purchase the land or the advise to keep his money

He is the one to help negotiate the terms of payment for the land (if the purchaser is buying from estate agents, he can negotiate for a payment scheme to be followed which will be favorable to the means of the client)

He is the person to check out a lot of details about the land which the purchaser may have absolutely no knowledge of prior to entering into the transaction

Lastly, he is the person to prepare the Deed of Assignment; and this is because the law authorizes only a legal practitioner to be the person to prepare a Deed of Assignment and frank same. No other person can prepare a Deed of Assignment to effect transfer of ownership in a land from vendor to purchaser, so you see why you have to sign on the services of a legal practitioner?

[b]Reasons to conduct Due Diligence in Land transactions in Nigeria

[/b]There are several reasons why a prospective buyer of land should undertake due diligence in respect of the property he wants to purchase.

These reasons are underlisted below:

It will reveal the true owner of the property in question. This is essential because of the fact that several persons can easily pose as the true owners of a property whereas they are merely fronts looking to rip purchasers off their money. If the prospective purchaser undertakes due diligence, then he can easily detect this. NB; it is better to have the lawyer do this because he knows the necessary questions to ask and the documents to demand for which the purchaser ordinarily would have no inkling of.

It will help the purchase to detect the physical defects in the property he wants to purchase from an estate agent or land owner.

It will help the purchaser the to detect/uncover hidden fees and taxes which remain unpaid. Please note that certain rates and land use charges run with the land and not with the occupant of the land. In other words, if there are taxes, rates, land use charges that remain unpaid as at the time of the intended purchase of the land and the land is eventually purchased, the new owner will have to pay it. But if he undertook due diligence, then he would have taken note of these unpaid rates and possibly worked out an arrangement with the vendor to deduct same from the purchase price. If he didn’t . . . well, he will still have to pay them. It is not the government’s business that the rates were left unpaid by the previous owner of the property.

[b]How to Conduct Due Diligence for a land purchase in Nigeria

[[/b]b]1.Request for the owners documents: [/b]This is generally the first step. Your lawyer can request for the epitome and abstract of title of the vendor which will have to be in chronological order and date back at least a period of forty years from the time of the proposed transaction. These documents are:

a)The certificate of occupancy (where applicable; if the land is an urban area)
b)Deed of Assignment
c)Power of Attorney (especially if the vendor is not the main owner of the land eg, family land)
d)Owner’s receipts
e)Vendor’s tax clearance certificates dating back a period of at least three years from the date of the transaction

NB: please consult a property lawyer for this. I know that many people think that they can do a lot of these themselves. In the short run, you can; in the long run, you will end up running into a hell lot of trouble for your efforts and then you will wish you had used a lawyer in the first place.

2. [b]undertake a physical inspection of the land. [/b]Estate agents can use very nice digital cameras to show you stunning shots of the land you want to purchase. However, in some cases, the reality may be a far cry from what you saw. So, before you commit yourself financially to purchasing any piece of land, make sure you go to the land and physically inspect it yourself or send a trusted associate/representative to do same for you.

[b]3. check the zoning and town planning laws of the location where you are purchasing the land. [/b]I cannot begin to stress this enough. Please have your lawyer look over the town planning laws of the area you want to purchase land from. This will save you a lot of trouble and help you avoid pitfalls like building an industry in an area designated for residential purchases only; building a four-story building in an area where the planning permits you to erect structures not above two stories. Or buying land already designated for building a road; buying land which is superimposed over a proposed waterway. The list is endless. Like they say, the windmills of the gods grinds slowly but surely. So you might buy and build, but one day the government will come and then you will pay the costly price. Then you will watch your structure demolished or have to pay hefty bribes to corrupt government officials in order for them to turn a blind eye to your ‘illegal’ structure.

[b]4. ESTATE VALUATION. [/b]In the preceding paragraphs I stressed that you also need an estate valuer/surveyor in a land transaction. This is where they come in. Engage the services of an estate valuer to value the market value of the land you want to purchase. The price of a piece of land in Banana Island will never be the same with that of a land situated at Isheri even if they are of the same exact dimensions. So, it will save you a lot of costs to find out the market value of the land you want to purchase in case you might want to sell the same in the not-so-distant future or use same as collateral for a mortgage loan. Then you will find out that the land is priced at a considerably lower price than you had originally bought.

The estate surveyor is the one to check if the land is properly in a grid and properly marked out. Ever encountered a scenario where you see road construction workers marking a particular section of a building to be torn down because it lies directly in the path where they want to build a road? Yes, ouch. Goes to show that some people really do not value their money before building. You need the services of an estate surveyor too just like you need that of a lawyer.

Finally, after you complete the transaction, you make sure that you collect all the necessary documents from the vendor; the documents to be collected are the original copies, not photocopies.

Like I always say, when in doubt, ask questions. In this case, consult your lawyer.

Ciao.

[b][/b]Written by Kingsley Ugochukwu Ani L.P.

[url]anikingsleyugochukwu.[/url]

Buying land is one of the very best investment a person can make during the course of his/her lifetime. And do you know the reason for this? It is pretty simple: land is a piece of investment that can never depreciate; instead, the value keeps on appreciating over the years. Then you can decide to develop the land in question, or you can sell it, or lease it out for agricultural purposes…the list is basically endless about what you can do with the land you buy. You can develop the land for residential and/or commercial purposes and still be pocketing a lot of money from it.

[b]Question asked: [/b]the price of land is quite exorbitant currently particularly taking into consideration the current harsh economic situation in Nigeria. That is true, but there are still ways around this; you can purchase land under estate developer schemes that offer payment plans ranging from outright one-off purchase to thirty-six months payment plan.

[b]Options available: [/b]as a prospective buyer, there are certain options you can easily look into particularly if you do not have the bulk millions with which to purchase land with. This will depend on the person(s) selling the land to you:
Estate Agent/Developer
Family owners
Beneficial owner of land

From the above, the best option to buy land if you do not have the full wherewithal to purchase land should be from an estate developer. The reason is simply because of the fact that they_most often than not_have plans for prospective land buyers to choose from, with varied payment plans and options you can explore depending on the nature of the package you are choosing from.

[b]Further issues to consider: [/b]a prospective purchaser should also consider the location where he or she is trying to purchase land from. If it is an area that is highly developed_say, for example, Lekki_then the price of land might be too exorbitant such that the buyer may not be able to afford same. If it is an area with less development, or still upcoming, then the land will be most definitely cheaper per plot or square feet.

[b]Advantage of buying in a less highbrow area: [/b]if you purchase land in an area where there is less development, then you stand the chance of leaving the land bare and undeveloped, only to sell same in the future after things start looking up for you and the value of the property appreciates.

[b]Documents to note when trying to buy land: [/b]there are certain documents every prospective land buyer should be aware of when trying to
purchase a piece of real estate or undeveloped property. These documents are as follows:

1.Certificate of Occupancy
2.Deed of Assignment/Conveyance
3.Receipt of land purchase
4.Authentic approved survey plan
5.Approved layout
6.Power of Attorney (particularly where you are trying to purchase family land which has an unregistered title in a rural area)

However, to be on the safe path, please try to consult your lawyer before you fork over your savings to a land vendor, only for it to turn out that the vendor is selling family or communal land without first seeking and obtaining the consent of the principal members of the family or the community as the case may be. Like the saying goes among those in the legal profession: pay the lawyer before the transaction and pay less, or pay him after the transaction and then end up paying more.

It is always advised to hand over the land transaction to a property lawyer to handle same for you before you make an irreparable blunder and end up losing your money or getting embroiled in a court case that can last for years. In the end, you end up losing your money, more than you bargained for.

[b]Buy land/property in Lagos: [/b]for those that are interested in purchasing real estate in Lagos, then you can please see attached dossier for all available land along the Lekki-Ajah peninsula, being handled by Pazino Engineering and Construction Company LTD., a trusted real estate developer that has a myriad of land and payment plans to handle for interested parties.

[b]Final Note: [/b]be careful when trying to purchase land as there are a lot of unscrupulous individuals out there waiting to rip off unsuspecting individuals for their money. Kindly contact your lawyer, or any lawyer for that matter before going into a land deal. You can also use trusted real estate developers.

Thank you.

You can subscribe for more legal-related information on [url]anikingsleyugochukwu. [/url]

Buying land is one of the very best investment a person can make during the course of his/her lifetime. And do you know the reason for this? It is pretty simple: land is a piece of investment that can never depreciate; instead, the value keeps on appreciating over the years. Then you can decide to develop the land in question, or you can sell it, or lease it out for agricultural purposes…the list is basically endless about what you can do with the land you buy. You can develop the land for residential and/or commercial purposes and still be pocketing a lot of money from it.

[b]Question asked: [/b]the price of land is quite exorbitant currently particularly taking into consideration the current harsh economic situation in Nigeria. That is true, but there are still ways around this; you can purchase land under estate developer schemes that offer payment plans ranging from outright one-off purchase to thirty-six months payment plan.

[b]Options available: [/b]as a prospective buyer, there are certain options you can easily look into particularly if you do not have the bulk millions with which to purchase land with. This will depend on the person(s) selling the land to you:
Estate Agent/Developer
Family owners
Beneficial owner of land

From the above, the best option to buy land if you do not have the full wherewithal to purchase land should be from an estate developer. The reason is simply because of the fact that they_most often than not_have plans for prospective land buyers to choose from, with varied payment plans and options you can explore depending on the nature of the package you are choosing from.

[b]Further issues to consider: [/b]a prospective purchaser should also consider the location where he or she is trying to purchase land from. If it is an area that is highly developed_say, for example, Lekki_then the price of land might be too exorbitant such that the buyer may not be able to afford same. If it is an area with less development, or still upcoming, then the land will be most definitely cheaper per plot or square feet.

[b]Advantage of buying in a less highbrow area: [/b]if you purchase land in an area where there is less development, then you stand the chance of leaving the land bare and undeveloped, only to sell same in the future after things start looking up for you and the value of the property appreciates.

[b]Documents to note when trying to buy land: [/b]there are certain documents every prospective land buyer should be aware of when trying to purchase a piece of real estate or undeveloped property. These documents are as follows:

1.Certificate of Occupancy
2.Deed of Assignment/Conveyance
3.Receipt of land purchase
4.Authentic approved survey plan
5.Approved layout
6.Power of Attorney (particularly where you are trying to purchase family land which has an unregistered title in a rural area)

However, to be on the safe path, please try to consult your lawyer before you fork over your savings to a land vendor, only for it to turn out that the vendor is selling family or communal land without first seeking and obtaining the consent of the principal members of the family or the community as the case may be. Like the saying goes among those in the legal profession: pay the lawyer before the transaction and pay less, or pay him after the transaction and then end up paying more.

It is always advised to hand over the land transaction to a property lawyer to handle same for you before you make an irreparable blunder and end up losing your money or getting embroiled in a court case that can last for years. In the end, you end up losing your money, more than you bargained for.

[b]Buy land/property in Lagos: [/b]for those that are interested in purchasing real estate in Lagos, then you can please see attached dossier for all available land along the Lekki-Ajah peninsula, being handled by Pazino Engineering and Construction Company LTD., a trusted real estate developer that has a myriad of land and payment plans to handle for interested parties.

[b]Final Note: [/b]be careful when trying to purchase land as there are a lot of unscrupulous individuals out there waiting to rip off unsuspecting individuals for their money. Kindly contact your lawyer, or any lawyer for that matter before going into a land deal. You can also use trusted real estate developers.

Thank you.

You can see enclosed pictures for options to choose from when buying from real estate developer in Lagos

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Introduction

Bail is simply a process or procedure whereby a person who has been denied of his constitutional right to freedom of movement (in other words, incarcerated due to the alleged commission of one crime or the other) is released upon security provided by him to the tune of the order of the court or any other body that has the authority to grant such bail application.

The case of Nnamdi Kanu who has been granted bail on April 25th, 2017.

The Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has granted Nnamdi Kanu bail in his long trial for charges bordering on treasonable felony. The justice, Justice Binta Nyako, while granting the bail application by the counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, on health grounds, ordered that he be released on bail on the following grounds:
1.That he provide a highly respected Jewish leader as a shorty for his bail
2.That he provide a ‘highly placed person of Igbo extraction such as a Senator’ as well as a ‘highly respected person who is resident in and owns landed property in Abuja’.
Each of the sureties to be provided by Nnamdi Kanu is to make a deposit of N100 million each for his release. He has also_ as part of the conditions for his bail_been precluded from attending any rally or granting interviews to members of the press. He is to also surrender his British and Nigerian international passports to the registry of the court.
Thoughts on the Bail Conditions
First and foremost, it is to be noted that the Federal High Court (or any other court for that matter, so long as it has the jurisdiction to try the offence) can impose whatever bail conditions it wishes on the bail applicant, taking into cognizance such factors as the nature of the offence, the ability of the applicant to influence witnesses and/or evidence due to high standing in the society, and a host of other factors.
However, at all times, courts are expected to ensure that the conditions imposed by them for granting a bail application are reasonable and not onerous, such that the applicants can be able to meet up with the conditions in order to secure their freedom and be free from the clutches of the prison yard.
Please note that the operative word here is Onerous; that the conditions set for the bail of the applicant are not onerous.

Question:

In the above case of Nnamdi Kanu, is the bail condition imposed by the Federal High Court too stringent and onerous?

A bail application if and when sought by an accused person is simply to further the provisions of Section 35 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; to seek the enforcement of said rights and secure the freedom of the person in question.

Is Nnamdi Kanu’s Bail terms onerous?

The question of whether or not the bail terms imposed on an accused person is onerous or too stringent depends on the peculiar circumstances of each case before the court.

In the case of Nnamdi Kanu’s bail application, several persons spanning the entire length and breadth of Nigeria, has taken to Social Media to protest that the bail terms imposed upon the Leader of the Independent People of Biafra are too stringent for him to meet. N300 million is too much a sum of money, as well as the insistence of the Justice that he provide a Jewish leader as a surety. Is there any law in Nigeria that provides for such? Surely that is unreasonable? In my own opinion, it is.

What if he is unable to procure a Jewish leader as a surety? He remains in prison?

Yes, if Nnamdi Kanu is unable to provide a Jewish leader, a person resident in, and with property in Abuja, and a person of high standing in the Igbo community, all of them to provide the combined sum of three hundred million naira, then Nnamdi Kanu is going to remain in prison.

Steps to take:

If the Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu considers the bail terms to be too stringent and draconian, then they can apply to have the terms varied for the leader to something they consider reasonable enough for them to put up with. For, as the famous saying goes: if the bail terms granted to an applicant are too draconian such that he cannot meet them, then it means that no bail was granted.

Further thoughts:

Nnamdi Kanu had been granted bail in the past, yet the Muhammad Buhari led administration consistently refused to allow him to leave the clutches of the Kuje prison in Abuja, dredging up a plethora of excuses pertaining to why he should remain in prison custody. The Federal Government blatantly disregarded the rule of law.
In this new bail granted to Nnamdi Kanu, will the Rule of Law prevail? Or will the Buhari-led government decide once again to keep the man trapped in the clutches of Federal prison?

Posted under: Nnamdi Kanu; Nnamdi Kanu bail, Nnamdi Kanu bail conditions.

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[center]Essentials of a Contract of Employment[/center]

A contract of employment is necessary whenever a person wants to undertake a position with an employer. But before signing the contract, the employee should endeavor to understand the ramifications of what he is setting his signature to. If possible, such employee should try and understand all the clauses in the contract of employment before signing same. If there are gray areas in the contract of employment, then he should forward same to a lawyer to go through the contract for him with a fine-tooth comb before appending his signature. If you do not have a lawyer, then you can contact me on aniugochukwu@gmail.com and I will be happy to be of assistance.

A contract of employment is a contract in and of itself, one governing the relationship between the employer and the employee in their dealings with each other.

Ingredients present in contracts of employment

There are certain clauses that should be contained in a contract of employment. There are certain industry-wide essentials that encompass contracts across all spheres of work, and there are certain clauses that are industry-specific, taking into cognizance the nature of Industry, the work expected of the employee, the confidentiality involved alongside the technical expertise.

Example:

Mr A is employed as a teacher in a community secondary school. In his contract of employment (if any), the employer cannot just insert a Non-Disclosure clause or prepare a separate Non-Disclosure Agreement. The reason is because of the fact that there is probably no confidential information Mr. A is going to be handling during the duration of his employment.

However, the same will not be applicable in an employment where the employee handles high stakes business for his employer, with attendant secrets.

Clauses in a contract of employment

1.name of parties and designation: the parties’ names and their designation, whether as employer and employee should be clearly stated.

2.Address of the business: this is the address where the employer carries on business

3.Commencement date: the date the parties are entering into the contract of employment should be stated too for avoidance of doubt.

4.Salary: the remuneration, mode of payment, and regularity, plus other factors regulating the payment of the employee should be set down.

5.Hours of work: this could be stated as 8 AM to 5 PM, etc, depending on the working billable hours of the firm.

6.Non compete clause: this clause is usually inserted for the protection of the interest of the employer in the deal. It can state that within a stated period (which should definitely not be unreasonable) from the date of the termination of the employment of the employee, that he shall not set up a similar business within a particular physical radius from the address of the employer’s business.

7.Copyright: During the duration of the employment of a particular employee, an employee might produce a copyrightable work. This clause might serve to transfer copyright in any work-related, industry-specific work created by the employee, especially if said work was produced using the materials of the employer, on the employer. Or it can serve to share the copyright between both parties. (Employees should be careful of this and try to consult with an intellectual property law expert before agreeing to this).

8.Course of disciplinary action against employee: This will serve to showcase the mode of conducting disciplinary actions against an employee should the employee go against the rules of the employer’s workplace.

9.Overtime: if in the contract of employment, the work periods of the employee is clearly stated, then this will serve to show how the employee can be remunerated for work done by him outside his work periods for the employer’s business.

10.Employee performance review: many employers can insert this clause in the contract of employment of the employee for periodic review of the work performance of the employee. This becomes necessary in a firm which has a hierarchical upward promotion hierarchy system so as to check whether an employee is due for upward promotion in his work.

11.Ethics: This basically will serve as the code of conduct that the employee is expected to abide by in his work for the employer.

12.Termination of employment; notice of termination: under this particular clause, a lot can go in, including the intention of either party to terminate the contract between them, the notice to be given, remuneration during the period of notice, etc. NB: employers should take particular care in this clause because of the strong laws that exist to protect the interest of the employee against wrongful termination of employment.

13.Vacation: the employer might insert this clause to give employee periods within which he can take leaves from the workplace and still be paid for it; duration, etc.

14.Study Leave: mostly applies to employees working in institutions of higher education.

15.Sick leave

16.Insurance coverage: some employers might be considerate enough to include such clauses that make for mandatory insurance schemes for incoming employees who are not yet covered under any insurance scheme. It can deal with: amount to be remitted from employee’s salary, amount the employer will add, etc.

17.Health coverage

18.Work-related travel: some employers might provide for this, mostly to the effect that they will shoulder the entire expenses to be accrued by the employee.

19.Salary scale

20.Non disclosure clause: will apply to keep the lips of the employee sealed against revealing any confidential information that the employer considers important enough, or what they consider their trade secrets from being revealed by the employees after the employee has left the service of the employer.

The list is basically endless.

There are a lot of clauses that can go into an employee’s contract of employment and these depend on the nature of the work, and in some cases, on the industry the employee is getting into.

Point to Note: The employee should be careful so as not to agree to terms that would be considered by an expert as onerous.

Finally, the parties will sign and date the contract, and it will have a binding force of the Law should either of the parties try to renege on the terms of said contract.

© 2017 by Kingsley Ugochukwu Ani Esq.

This article originally appeared here: [url]anikingsleyugochukwu.[/url] You can visit the site for more legal related information.

cybash:
Very nice post bruh.. Buhr still a lot of tns will NEVER b applicable in dis can3!!! Average naija wey never cc work do, go com dey give im BOSS conditions eeh kwa?!
JOB = just obey ya Boss, in ningiriya simple!

You're right there. But then these are stuffs people ought to at least know. It's always better to know your rights than to be ignorant of them. So that even if they're trampled upon, you know. Even if you end up doing nothing about it, you know

[center]The Need for a Contract of Employment[/center]

It is a good thing when you are offered that new job at that new company you applied to alongside several hundred other applicants. And that job, after three years of unemployment; now you cannot wait to start working right away and start earning your pay. You are eager to start working, to start putting in the hours and doing the eight-to-five grind daily.
Question: Did your boss get you to sign a contract of employment?

If the answer is yes, and the contract of employment was well drawn by a good professional with a well-formed knowledge of employment law, then you are probably in safe hands because of the fact that your employer must have taken into cognizance a lot of factors pertaining to your employment. He must looked at the laws and drafted the contract accordingly.

If no, you might be tempted to ask: what’s the need for one anyway?

There is the need for a contract of employment to be drawn up and duly signed by the parties involved_the employer and the employee_for a myriad of reasons you might know nothing about until trouble comes knocking on your door. And trouble will come knocking on your day in some situations, particularly as it pertains to the severance of the employer-employee relationship.

Let me give you an instance.

Mr A is a writer and also a website engineer. He got employed by ABC company to work at their head office in Victoria Island, Lagos. Unfortunately, he did not sign a contract of employment at the time he entered into the job placement to work for the firm.
After working there for a period of seven months, he subsequently got granted a Writers’ Fellowship at the Writing Institute, Johannesburg. He told his boss about it_this one-month writing fellowship. The boss unequivocably said no, and that was the end of the matter.
Two years later, after working for long months and having no break, he asked his boss for a one-week paid-or-unpaid vacation since he wanted to take some time off and relax. The boss said no; there was a lot of work in the office and they could not afford to give him the break he needed. Perhaps another time? Or, if he was desperately in need of such a break, then he might as well consider his contract of employment terminated.
Mr. A stayed on.
On another instance, the boss called him in to the office to work on a national holiday; he did that but received no pay. Sometimes too, he works very late at the office and the boss offers him no remuneration for the said overtime. After all, he cannot hold his boss to anything because they have no agreement governing their relationship.
Note that said boss does not care for his welfare: if he is no longer interested in collecting his salary, then he should find employment elsewhere.
Mr A needs the money, so he stayed on.

Analysis

Mr A. is under the full control of his boss. He is being paid well, they owe him no salaries payments. In other words, he had nothing to complain about. Still, his boss owns him and he knows it, though there is nothing he can do about it.

Implications

All the above would have undoubtedly been forestalled by a contract of employment. If at the time of Mr. A’s entering into the job placement, he had demanded for, and signed, a contract of employment with his boss, then he would most likely not be having these problems. A lot of issues and concerns which he felt would likely arise in the course of his employment would have been effectively handled in the said contract of employment.

Issues dealt with in contracts of employment

Salary
Health coverage
Vacations
Opportunities for further personal-cum-professional development
Work ethics
No compete clause
Copyright of employee’s works during the course of his duties for the employer (if any)
Non Disclosure of confidential information
Remittance of employee payments
Notice of resignation
Disciplinary action against employee
Sick leave
Salary increment
Salary scale
Review of employee performance
Code of conduct
Study leave
Company rules and regulations
Overtime work
Travel and accruing expenses
Notice for termination of employee’s contract

The list is positively endless, and it all depends on the nature of the work, the industry involved, alongside a host of other numerous considerations the parties can take into cognizance when entering into a contract for employment. Plus, do not forget the applicable laws, which most employees, and several employers, are deliriously oblivious of. After all, who needs the laws, yes? Wrong; the laws are there for a reason, particularly for the protection of employees.

For instance, in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria, oil companies have laid off an unusually high number of employees due to the current economic recession biting at the Nigerian economy. What the employees have no knowledge of is the fact that there is a provision to the effect that the company must notify the Department of Petroleum Resources before they terminate. They do not, and the employees have absolutely no knowledge of this. They just pack their bags, cry a few tears, and then leave. The employers smile, pack themselves off to their posh offices, and take sips of creamed coffee. Life goes on.

Thus, if the employer reneges on any of the articles in a contract of employment, or goes against the labor laws designed to protect the interest of the employees, then the employee can call the boss up on this. He can even go to court to enforce said contract. But then, most employers will be unwilling to go to court once they know and understand that you know your rights and can take the necessary steps to enforce those rights.

Conclusion

It is a wonderful thing if and when a job seeker subsequently manages to snag a job. However, do not be so happy with your new position and make the mistake of not putting the terms of your employment in writing. You might get to work for years without problems, but you stand the risk of running into problems one day, and then you will see the need for a contract of employment. Then you will start wishing that you had ensured that your boss prepared and had you sign a contract of employment which isn’t too stringent and onerous. After all, contracts of employment are there to protect the interest of employees, and even employers.

In my next post, I will break down the contents of a contract of employment with possible drafts of same.

© 2017 by Kingsley Ugochukwu Ani Esq.

This post originally appeared in [url]anikingsleyugochukwu.[/url]

There are things which every lawyer is expected to know in order to make good headway in the practice of the law. It is not enough now to say that one has been called to the Bar and at such, that you can just open up a law chamber and start your practice. That would have easily obtainable in the time of the brick-and-mortar law firms, when anything goes. Now, the world has gone global and every lawyer will have to learn to key into the global trends that has swept through the legal stratosphere over the years.
Stemming from the above assertion, it is worthy to note that it would be a laudable achievement for every lawyer to learn to key into the trends that has swept across the legal world in all the different parts of the world. These are as follows:
Being technology savvy.
The practice of the law has definitely gone beyond the physical and transcended greatly into the technological. It is not enough now in the legal clime under operation in the different parts of the world that a lawyer can just hope to do his/her work using books and physical precedents and processes. That is for the bygone days of the brick-and-mortar law practice.
In the legal clime being operated in today’s world, everything has gone digital: from the communications between lawyers/firms and their client(s), to communications with other persons across the world, to the service of court processes; to the advent of e-discovery; to the resolution of disputes between disputing parties across various stratospheres in the world of business and dispute resolution; to the writing of legal communiqué between lawyers and other parties with whom they transact business with. . . the knowledge of technology is something that every lawyer practicing in today’s world will have to learn to key into or else be left by the wayside as someone preferably from the stone ages.
It is not enough for the lawyer(s) to say that there are secretaries and paralegals that can do the needful for them; it is not acceptable for them to say that they are legal professionals, and at such, have no business learning anything that has to do with Information Communications systems. A lawyer who refuses to key into the fast-sweeping technological trends and who refuses to learn to use technology in his/her work, is asking _ nay; begging_ to be left behind at the altar of mediocrity in favor of the twenty-first century lawyer who has become a jack-of-all-trade and has to know everything there is to know because it will be of immense benefit to his/her work as a legal practitioner.
Try to imagine a lawyer who has gone on Christmas vacation with his family down to his hometown in the village in one of the rural areas of Nigeria. Per chance one of his important clients contacts him via email, in need of something urgent which the lawyer will have to unknot for him online. If that lawyer is un-technology savvy; one of those who has an undue reliance on the work of underpaid secretaries, what then is he to do? For he is in the village, and most villages lack the necessary technology-savvy persons to handle such affairs? Is this legal practitioner to notify the client to wait, that his secretary is in another part of the country and the matter will have to wait until he has returned back to the city during the New Year?
Any lawyer that paints the above scenario has showcased a gross level of unpardonable incompetence and should be dropped like a hot potato by the client if the latter knows what is best for him.
Learning how to use online communication systems
Communications in this fast-moving world today has gone beyond the physical sending of correspondence between entities and phones calls, plus physical face-to-face interactions, to more sophisticated means of communication that is wholly based on the use of technological systems ranging from the use of Dropbox and other online cloud storage-cum-sharing systems, to sophisticated business email usage; to the use of Internet calls, to video calls. . . the list of technological systems in use in today’s terrifyingly fast-paced world is inexhaustive.
There are some lawyers, many of them seniors at the Bar (some of whom are even Senior Advocates of Nigeria), who cannot string together simple sentences in their email clients to send off into the Information Superhighway. They rely on the work of their secretaries and other minions to do these for them. There are some of them who cannot even open an email address or access the one they have(that is if they even have one in the first place).
What would be the fate of these lawyers if they have correspondence to send which are of an extremely confidential nature? Will they still have to make use of the services of their underpaid secretaries? Or will they have to sit at the keyboard and slave away for hours on something that would ordinarily take a technology-savvy person minutes to do?
The above scenario will amount to a gross waste of man-hours and jealously-guarded precious time which can be quantified in money and productivity.
So, lawyers had better learn to use the necessary systems and gadgets that will aid them in their work to make their lives easier. Not only easier, but also imperative for any practice which hopes to appear on the map as a practice to be reckoned with.
With the above to reflect on, it is time to sign out, and please lawyers, go and update yourself. Do not say that you do not have the time to; nobody does. You just have to create out the time to learn all these for yourself.
This series will be continued in the next article.
Thank you.

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There is the fact that many people keep on wondering if they are dating the right person; the right guy, the right girl, and so on and so forth. They keep wondering if they person that they are with is the one, the correct person they may end up spending the rest of their lives with when the time came for them to settle down and start the family of their dreams. Well, you are not alone, folks, for even the celebrities, in their hunt for the perfect handbag_ ie, their perfect mate_ keep on trying on the toga of many marriages and divorces.

Well, there is one way to make that relationship work out for the both of you and not for it be a one-sided thing that the one party is doing all to please the other one and that other one is doing everything possible to make life a living hell for the mate that is doing all they can to make the affair work.

Tired of all that work on the one part? Here’s some tricks on what to do to make the relationship try to work out between the parties involved.

People are really geared to do all they can to do the best they can for themselves and then to leave the other party hanging. Try, for once, to snap out of that me time and do something to try and please the other party you’re going out with. Want to go to a party while your lover who is an introvert wants to hang out in the home and read newspapers and watch some movies with his/her significant other? Go the way with that person and forget about the party stuff. You are in the relationship with the other party to be with that other party and not to go frolicking around the entire place thrusting third partied between the both of you.


When it comes to relationships, both for ordinary friends and the ones that are lovers or married, the main issue is to compromise. You must learn to try and find a common ground with your partner if you really want that relationship to work. Everything does not have to be about you: think of your significant other. Let there be some sought of common ground where the both of you can try to agree with the other because you’re there for each other and not just for yourself. Do you always try to have your way with him/her? Then I think you might both be headed for big trouble and that relationship might just crash against the rocks.


When there is something bothering you about what your significant other is doing, then try to talk it out. DO NOT SHOUT IT OUT. Shouting and screaming is one thing that really sends relationships dashing against the rocks. Try to be loving. If the tempers are too high, then go and read or take a walk to clear your mind or hit the gym or go to the market or watch a movie. Then later on, you talk. Never ever leave some issues unresolved between you and your partner because it might fester and then blow up like a time bomb when you guys least expect it to. You have to tell the other party that there are things to talk about and then you talk.
Is it your husband? Then get him to bed, give him the best sex he has ever had and then try to tell him what’s on your mind. Not however, that it’s not works for one couple that will work for the other couple; my shoes, my style, yes?


Are you type of person that always makes sure that you nag about everything your partner does without ever saying that the partner has any redeeming qualities? Then I am sorry to say this but you might be chasing the partner away without even realizing it. If your girl cooks burnt sausages which even SHE knows is burnt, tell her that it is the very best she’s cooked you so far and believe me when I tell you that she will try to burn her fingers next time before she thinks of letting your food burn. She has a nice hairdo? Lavish her with compliments; tell her she looks better than Madonna, and you will see her preen before you, lapping and soaping up all the praise. The hair might look like a goat wig, but then so what?
Does your boy hit the gym? Then tell him he’s got the best chest you’d ever seen on any male and he will die for you.
The point is: complimenting the other party will get you places but heaping curses and nags will get you heartbreak and you will cry like a banshee when your significant other finally decides to leave you.


When you are married to someone, there is the need for sex. Some people see this as the opportunity to relieve themselves sexually; you know, to get it all off. Others see this as the union of both the body and the soul, something that ties them and their significant other together.

However, many people go about this sex thing in the wrong way. They think only of themselves. The men think only of pounding away on their girls and the girls think only of the fact that they need to get their gratification and then life goes on. But then, what many people fail to take into cognizance is the fact that the sex thing should be all about the other person and not about you. If you focus only on giving the only yourself pleasure without thinking of the other, then there might be something wrong. What if you reach orgasm and your significant other doesn’t and you don’t even seem to care about that? That’ll make you out to be some selfish jerk that deserves nothing good from your partner.
If the two parties try to focus one on the other instead of thinking only of themselves, then the world will be a better place for all concerned.


The world revolves around not one person but perhaps two or more of them. Do remember that there are two persons to a relationship, not one. Learn to think of the other person and not only of yourself and you shall have someone who will love you and will be ready to die for you. But sometimes, it might be good to bring out the bile and not only the sugar because of the fact that relationships are filled with ups and downs.

Enjoy, and do wait for the next post in the series. Love ya.

When the Igbo people in the Federal Republic of Nigeria talk about having their own country_ which is Biafra, to be precise_ then we see that there is a serious problem with the existing social melieu, otherwise, they would never have been making that request.
Throughout the years that the country Nigeria has been in existence, it is to be noted that the people in the Igbo tribe of the country has been the ones that the other tribes decide to step on, to use as their foot match when they please. Take an incursion into the history of the country and the most glaring fact to come to mind would be the fact that the Igbos have always had the shorter end of the stick when it comes to racial treatment from the other tribes in the country. And please do not forget that they are supposed to be one of the three major ethnic groups in the country. So, how then can they be this dominant and yet so downtrodden?
Now, there is the concept under International Law called the Right to Protect Territorial Integrity, but there is also another concept called the Right to Self-Determination which gives the people within a particular geographical enclave under the governance of a government the right to say that they are no longer interested in being a part of the existing system and wish to break out on their own.
The above is the scenario that the people of Nigeria are facing; the Igbos want their right to self-determine_ to become a Republic on their own and do their own thing_ but the others; the conglomeration of the other tribes in the country, along with the ruling cadre of those in the government of the country_ most notably the Hausa-Fulani, have said no to this wish of the Igbo tribe and other surrounding tribes to have their own Republic so that they can govern themselves.
A plethora of questions crops up to the fore about this? Why is the political power brokers so dead against the issue of Biafra for the people that want this change? Why has their been serious efforts to sabotage the wish of the Igbos in their quest for their own autonomy? And why, if they do not want the Igbo people in the country to break away, have they refused to have the Igbos take over very sensitive positions in governance?
It is the proverbial scenario of refusing to settle the apprentice who has diligently served the master for a long period of time and now wishes to go away on his own. The Igbos has been hailed the world over as one of the most hardworking set of people that Nigeria has been able to produce. The Nigerian people as a whole has said it over and over again that the Igbos are the most innovative and forward thinkers of the Nigerian economy.
Given that the above is the case, why has nothing been done to promote the Igbos on an international scale? Why are they being sabotaged at all levels?
For those that have something to say about the precarious situation that the Igbos has found themselves in, they are being shut up by the government and then touted to be the enemies of the Nigerian state.
Use Nnamdi Kanu as an example: the Nigerian government wishes to have his head on a platter, and the only reason why they have as yet failed to do so is because of the fact that the man has a lot of International popularity. A research into the Search Engine Optimization algorithms of Google has indicated that the man’s name was one of the most googled names of 2015 in the whole world.
And this is all for the search for a better tomorrow by the Igbo people of Nigeria.
The Civil War that had lasted through the late sixties into the early seventies had been as a result of this same quest for the greater tomorrow and their freedom by the Biafran people who had wished to break away from the experiment known as Nigeria_ something that the White Man had done then because they had wanted to unify the regions then for easier governance for them when they were still available within the auspices of the African shores, looting and plundering the resources of the Blacks.
Now, another question comes to mind: is Biafra the real deal? Is it the solution to the problem that the educated analysts have been unable to accurately diagnose? Will creating the Republic of Biafra be the solution to the ethnic problem that has been brewing between the Igbos and the other tribes of Nigeria, notably the Hausas? And will the creation of the Republic foster peace and halt the back-biting between and amongst the Igbos themselves?
There is the issue that the movement for the Republic of Biafra is fast gaining ground. The Nigerian community is looking at the Igbos with a kind of wary reserve, as if waiting for the other shoe to drop. If not, why then did they have to make an arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the Radio Biafra broadcaster who became one of the most-searched Google hits of 2015? And by doing that, the government seems to be voicing their concern over the fact that there is the distinct possibility that there will be a Biafra for the Igbos to sing to?
There has been a whole lot of books written about the people of Igboland, and they have been touted as the Jews of the entire Black Nation because they seem to have the best brains in the field of Literature (think Chinua Achebe who is the only Black African listed on Wikipedia as one of the worldwide bestselling authors of all time, and then Chimamanda Adichie too, who is seen as the young poster child of the Nigerian literary scene; along with Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, who is internationally acclaimed for her debut novel I Do Not Come to You by Chance); they have been hailed as the most hardworking and resourceful people. Is there an Hausa or Yoruba person here? Eh, no.
If there is any doubt as to this assertion, then it would be suggested that the persons that doubt this pay a visit to Aba in Abia State and see what the suit makers and the leather shoe makers there are doing with their hands, showcasing amazing skill that have not been replicated anywhere else in the whole of Nigeria. They are the best thinkers and the best mathematical-cum-computer geniuses around, and if there is any doubt to that, then MTN will easily attest to the fact that all the cheats that have floated around the Internet pertaining to how to gyp the network providers out of data have been the handwork of the Igbos.
The Port Harcourt oil refineries will undoubtedly go to the Republic of Biafra if the country is ever created out, hence the wish by the government to make sure that it is not created out due to the fact that they stand to lose out on the oil which is the major source of foreign exchange for the country.
All in all: is it all really worth it? Should the country split up? And if the country were to split up, is this not worth having? After all, the name Nigeria had been coined out by the tricky British to aid in their colonization process since it was then easier for them to conglomerate different independent nations into one huge, crumbling monolith that bears an attestation to the fact that there is a whole lot of diversity amongst the peoples living within it and there is nothing to be done or that could be done to try and unite them into one wholesome mass.
There has never been peace in the country called Nigeria; the question here, is whether there ever will. And whether, if the Republic of Biafra is created, it would be the change needed to bring about social development.
What do you think?

Drop comments on the site below

https://kingsleyadrian./2016/05/14/the-igbo-nation-and-the-republic-of-biafra/[url]When the Igbo people in the Federal Republic of Nigeria talk about having their own country_ which is Biafra, to be precise_ then we see that there is a serious problem with the existing social melieu, otherwise, they would never have been making that request.
Throughout the years that the country Nigeria has been in existence, it is to be noted that the people in the Igbo tribe of the country has been the ones that the other tribes decide to step on, to use as their foot match when they please. Take an incursion into the history of the country and the most glaring fact to come to mind would be the fact that the Igbos have always had the shorter end of the stick when it comes to racial treatment from the other tribes in the country. And please do not forget that they are supposed to be one of the three major ethnic groups in the country. So, how then can they be this dominant and yet so downtrodden?
Now, there is the concept under International Law called the Right to Protect Territorial Integrity, but there is also another concept called the Right to Self-Determination which gives the people within a particular geographical enclave under the governance of a government the right to say that they are no longer interested in being a part of the existing system and wish to break out on their own.
The above is the scenario that the people of Nigeria are facing; the Igbos want their right to self-determine_ to become a Republic on their own and do their own thing_ but the others; the conglomeration of the other tribes in the country, along with the ruling cadre of those in the government of the country_ most notably the Hausa-Fulani, have said no to this wish of the Igbo tribe and other surrounding tribes to have their own Republic so that they can govern themselves.
A plethora of questions crops up to the fore about this? Why is the political power brokers so dead against the issue of Biafra for the people that want this change? Why has their been serious efforts to sabotage the wish of the Igbos in their quest for their own autonomy? And why, if they do not want the Igbo people in the country to break away, have they refused to have the Igbos take over very sensitive positions in governance?
It is the proverbial scenario of refusing to settle the apprentice who has diligently served the master for a long period of time and now wishes to go away on his own. The Igbos has been hailed the world over as one of the most hardworking set of people that Nigeria has been able to produce. The Nigerian people as a whole has said it over and over again that the Igbos are the most innovative and forward thinkers of the Nigerian economy.
Given that the above is the case, why has nothing been done to promote the Igbos on an international scale? Why are they being sabotaged at all levels?
For those that have something to say about the precarious situation that the Igbos has found themselves in, they are being shut up by the government and then touted to be the enemies of the Nigerian state.
Use Nnamdi Kanu as an example: the Nigerian government wishes to have his head on a platter, and the only reason why they have as yet failed to do so is because of the fact that the man has a lot of International popularity. A research into the Search Engine Optimization algorithms of Google has indicated that the man’s name was one of the most googled names of 2015 in the whole world.
And this is all for the search for a better tomorrow by the Igbo people of Nigeria.
The Civil War that had lasted through the late sixties into the early seventies had been as a result of this same quest for the greater tomorrow and their freedom by the Biafran people who had wished to break away from the experiment known as Nigeria_ something that the White Man had done then because they had wanted to unify the regions then for easier governance for them when they were still available within the auspices of the African shores, looting and plundering the resources of the Blacks.
Now, another question comes to mind: is Biafra the real deal? Is it the solution to the problem that the educated analysts have been unable to accurately diagnose? Will creating the Republic of Biafra be the solution to the ethnic problem that has been brewing between the Igbos and the other tribes of Nigeria, notably the Hausas? And will the creation of the Republic foster peace and halt the back-biting between and amongst the Igbos themselves?
There is the issue that the movement for the Republic of Biafra is fast gaining ground. The Nigerian community is looking at the Igbos with a kind of wary reserve, as if waiting for the other shoe to drop. If not, why then did they have to make an arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the Radio Biafra broadcaster who became one of the most-searched Google hits of 2015? And by doing that, the government seems to be voicing their concern over the fact that there is the distinct possibility that there will be a Biafra for the Igbos to sing to?
There has been a whole lot of books written about the people of Igboland, and they have been touted as the Jews of the entire Black Nation because they seem to have the best brains in the field of Literature (think Chinua Achebe who is the only Black African listed on Wikipedia as one of the worldwide bestselling authors of all time, and then Chimamanda Adichie too, who is seen as the young poster child of the Nigerian literary scene; along with Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, who is internationally acclaimed for her debut novel I Do Not Come to You by Chance); they have been hailed as the most hardworking and resourceful people. Is there an Hausa or Yoruba person here? Eh, no.
If there is any doubt as to this assertion, then it would be suggested that the persons that doubt this pay a visit to Aba in Abia State and see what the suit makers and the leather shoe makers there are doing with their hands, showcasing amazing skill that have not been replicated anywhere else in the whole of Nigeria. They are the best thinkers and the best mathematical-cum-computer geniuses around, and if there is any doubt to that, then MTN will easily attest to the fact that all the cheats that have floated around the Internet pertaining to how to gyp the network providers out of data have been the handwork of the Igbos.
The Port Harcourt oil refineries will undoubtedly go to the Republic of Biafra if the country is ever created out, hence the wish by the government to make sure that it is not created out due to the fact that they stand to lose out on the oil which is the major source of foreign exchange for the country.
All in all: is it all really worth it? Should the country split up? And if the country were to split up, is this not worth having? After all, the name Nigeria had been coined out by the tricky British to aid in their colonization process since it was then easier for them to conglomerate different independent nations into one huge, crumbling monolith that bears an attestation to the fact that there is a whole lot of diversity amongst the peoples living within it and there is nothing to be done or that could be done to try and unite them into one wholesome mass.
There has never been peace in the country called Nigeria; the question here, is whether there ever will. And whether, if the Republic of Biafra is created, it would be the change needed to bring about social development.
What do you think?

Drop comments on the site below

https://kingsleyadrian./2016/05/14/the-igbo-nation-and-the-republic-of-biafra/[/url]When the Igbo people in the Federal Republic of Nigeria talk about having their own country_ which is Biafra, to be precise_ then we see that there is a serious problem with the existing social melieu, otherwise, they would never have been making that request.
Throughout the years that the country Nigeria has been in existence, it is to be noted that the people in the Igbo tribe of the country has been the ones that the other tribes decide to step on, to use as their foot match when they please. Take an incursion into the history of the country and the most glaring fact to come to mind would be the fact that the Igbos have always had the shorter end of the stick when it comes to racial treatment from the other tribes in the country. And please do not forget that they are supposed to be one of the three major ethnic groups in the country. So, how then can they be this dominant and yet so downtrodden?
Now, there is the concept under International Law called the Right to Protect Territorial Integrity, but there is also another concept called the Right to Self-Determination which gives the people within a particular geographical enclave under the governance of a government the right to say that they are no longer interested in being a part of the existing system and wish to break out on their own.
The above is the scenario that the people of Nigeria are facing; the Igbos want their right to self-determine_ to become a Republic on their own and do their own thing_ but the others; the conglomeration of the other tribes in the country, along with the ruling cadre of those in the government of the country_ most notably the Hausa-Fulani, have said no to this wish of the Igbo tribe and other surrounding tribes to have their own Republic so that they can govern themselves.
A plethora of questions crops up to the fore about this? Why is the political power brokers so dead against the issue of Biafra for the people that want this change? Why has their been serious efforts to sabotage the wish of the Igbos in their quest for their own autonomy? And why, if they do not want the Igbo people in the country to break away, have they refused to have the Igbos take over very sensitive positions in governance?
It is the proverbial scenario of refusing to settle the apprentice who has diligently served the master for a long period of time and now wishes to go away on his own. The Igbos has been hailed the world over as one of the most hardworking set of people that Nigeria has been able to produce. The Nigerian people as a whole has said it over and over again that the Igbos are the most innovative and forward thinkers of the Nigerian economy.
Given that the above is the case, why has nothing been done to promote the Igbos on an international scale? Why are they being sabotaged at all levels?
For those that have something to say about the precarious situation that the Igbos has found themselves in, they are being shut up by the government and then touted to be the enemies of the Nigerian state.
Use Nnamdi Kanu as an example: the Nigerian government wishes to have his head on a platter, and the only reason why they have as yet failed to do so is because of the fact that the man has a lot of International popularity. A research into the Search Engine Optimization algorithms of Google has indicated that the man’s name was one of the most googled names of 2015 in the whole world.
And this is all for the search for a better tomorrow by the Igbo people of Nigeria.
The Civil War that had lasted through the late sixties into the early seventies had been as a result of this same quest for the greater tomorrow and their freedom by the Biafran people who had wished to break away from the experiment known as Nigeria_ something that the White Man had done then because they had wanted to unify the regions then for easier governance for them when they were still available within the auspices of the African shores, looting and plundering the resources of the Blacks.

Read full article on the site below

https://kingsleyadrian./2016/05/14/the-igbo-nation-and-the-republic-of-biafra/

Open Memo to NYSC
This letter is written on behalf of the corp members that are being posted to Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State for the mandatory national service programme. It is the thought of the corp members who are there in Adekunle Ajasin University that the university makes special request for persons who have very good results from their respective institutions, and then instead of these individuals being utilized well in the university in the areas that are relevant to the course of their studies, they are being used as clerical workers_ typists_ in the different departments of the university.

There is the case of Barrister E. P. C., a law graduate from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, and one of the best graduating students in his graduation class. He is currently working in the Advancement Office of the University as a typist, with no access whatsoever to anything that is related to the law.

There is also the case of O. O. J., another lawyer who is there but working in the Personnel Department. He basically has no job description in the office setting. He just goes to work and then return back to the lodge every day.
It is to be noted that of all 8 (eight) lawyers there in the University, only one of them is in the law faculty. In other words, the lawyer who was posted to the law faculty is the only one there in the University among the lawyers serving there who is doing anything that is even remotely related to the law.

For the individuals that graduated from other disciplines of study, there was one_ first name is Oluwatobi, last name withheld_ who is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State University. He was originally posted to the Health Centre of the school whereas there are graduates in the relevant who should be posted there to be in the healthcare system. It was only after he persistently hammered at the system to change him that he was finally sent away from the Health Center to the Pre-Degree Unit to work.

A poll was conducted to find out what the results of the corps members that were posted to Adekunle Ajasin were from their respective universities, and it was discovered that an overwhelming majority of the corp members there graduated with Second Class Honours (Upper Division), while a underwhelming minority graduated with a Second Class Honours (Lower Division). The school also has First Class graduates serving there too, and there are currently no less than 3 (three) first class graduates there from different esteemed institutions both in Nigeria and the Diaspora.

Sources also revealed_ though unofficially and unconfirmed by the staff of the University because they maintained a tight lip when asked about this_ that the University requests only for graduates with very good results to work in the institution. It is the thought of these select corpers that they are going there to be a part of the Academia and be part of the Academic specter of the University. However, when they now go to the PPA_ Adekunle Ajasin University_ they are grilled as to their computer knowledge, and those that admit to having upgraded Computer Appreciation skills are then sent off into departments that are in need of typists and that will be the job of these corpers throughout the duration of their stay there in the University as NYSC corpers doing their national service there.

As one of the corpers there lamented: ‘This institution is using our results against us. It is not a crime for a graduate to come out of the University with a 2-1 result. Imagine, one of my friends in the University’d managed to pass and had also gotten an ordinary pass in the Law School_ he is there in a big chamber in Port Harcourt going to the Federal High Court unattended by his principal while I am here wasting away here in this school doing nothing but typing work for them. It is so unfair.’

Another corper, Barrister A. K. U., who had gotten a Second Class Honours (Upper Division), both at the University level and also at the Law School, plus a resounding recognition at the Victoria Island, Lagos Campus of the Nigerian Law School as the overall best in the Property Law Snap Test of the campus in 2015, has similar complaints to make about the situation at the institution.

‘I go there to work every day and sometimes I get to type,’ he says. ‘At other times, I do nothing in the office except to read online legal journals and work on my blog. Others are there in the law firms doing their profession while I am here wasting my time and asking for the service year to finish so I can go and see what to do with my life.’

Imagine, that even though the University has a Legal Unit, not one lawyer was posted there to work. Instead, a young woman who had graduated from a University in Dubai, UAE, one Ms. Bashirat C., with a degree in Environmental Science, is the one that was posted to the Legal Unit to work there even though she had never handled a legal document throughout the entire duration of her life. All the lawyers in the University were left to wallow in other departments that have no correlation whatsoever with their discipline of study while someone who has sub-zero knowledge of the law is made to work in the legal department of the institution.

The corpers there are saying that if a full-fledged lawyer who has been called to the Nigerian Bar and has been enrolled in the roll at the Supreme Court is left to become a typist_ a glorified typist and errand boy who the small boss in the office can order around to go and purchase pure water and recharge card for him_ and some Environmental Scientist is left to sit in the Legal Unit doing nothing, then there is something wrong with the system.

It is their contention further, that the NYSC State Secretariat in Akure has no knowledge about this; that they are sending the University corpers who will be put into good academic use as research assistants and the like. That when the corpers now arrive, they’re being used as nothing other than typists, particularly the lawyers whose discipline is practice-based, not something to be kept in the bag for later visitation. It is to be noted that there are some corpers there who were posted to their areas of specialization, but they are few and far between.

They are appealing for something to be done about this, if not in their own batch, then at least for subsequent corp members to be deployed for service. It would be a waste for the corpers to go there and then end up doing nothing throughout the duration of their stay there in the University. It would amount to a waste of one full year, and this would be more acute for the lawyers there since they are the ones that are most affected by this particular scenario in the school since their course of study is fully practice-based, and, with the fact that there are almost always constant changes in the spectrum of the law, it would be detrimental to them to stay in a place where they would not have their minds massaged by the relevant legal principles of Law which they should have an intimate relationship with.

NYSC take note, and the school should also take note too as it is a gross injustice to these beautiful minds to have them wasting there and languishing there for nothing when they should be elsewhere doing what they studied in their professions.

It's out. I made an upper division. Thank God

Please Sunshine corners, for those coming from Onitsha, how do you get there to the camp. Thanks, Anybody, for directions

Where are stream 2 members going there from Onitsha. And if you studied law then it's an added bonus. I need lawyers now. 07069406152

deracathy:
congratulations all
Those posted to ondo let's meet here
I represent Stream 2.

Me too Is for stream 2. Where you going from.? Eastern Nigeria..?

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