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ZombieDestroyer:
Exactly!!

Before it was your lowest subject that will determine where you will fall into!!

Kids of these days doesn't know what it takes to make 2:1 then in law school!

Before, the highest number persons to make 1st class can't be more than two (2) in the whole federation, per set!

In fact, some sets you won't see a single 1st class in the whole federation!!

Yes and that was the same grading system used last year - and 161 students made a first class under that system. That’s the Highest ever.

It’s not about the grading system.

The teachers are revealing more secrets about acing the Bar.
The Students are more attentive - smarter too.

Caleb17:
They are just dashing first class in law school these days. The golden era when first class was first class is gone for good...

Have you seen the questions?

Did you see their scripts?

You are a lawyer - don’t make baseless assertions.

Btw - did you make a First Class in your undergrad?

GODPUNISHALABI:
Law school has become a joke under this new dg. During my time who born you chop first class, see as dem Dey dash everybody first class like say na biscuit

You are mis-informed. As a senior at the bar, you are meant to be happy your new wigs surpassed your records. Not berate the same hallowed institution that produced you.

FYI, like someone else said. The First Class Mark was moved from 70% to 75%!

So that means you need to have 75 and above in each of your courses... in order to make a First Class now. Do you think you can make a 75 in Corporate Law Practice?

Even if it’s now commutative - and the First Class Student had a 68, he would have had to have a 85 in one or two other courses to balance up the 75%.

If you ask me, that’s a better grading system.

GODPUNISHALABI:
This new dg isa hayatou is degrading law school because of his Aboki brothers . onadeko should be reinstated just imagine 147 first class from where naa? . I heard you are no more graded with your lowest score again. This guys are trying to make law students lazy

Can you listen to yourself?

Enemies of progress.

This is a desperate attempt to seek Legitimacy.

But change is the only constant thing in life - and I believe our definition of Cultism may be challenged if these folks could shun hooliganism and pursue Justice.

After all the only difference between OPC and Aiye confraternity is that the latter operates in defiance to established laws.

Someone should tell this man No one on the street calls him His Excellency.

Everyone, including children, calls him by his name - Sanwo Olu, Sanwo Eko.

Cosmetic change of title doesn’t make him competent - he better ask Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

Give lagos innovative governance!

Ambode tried with the Waterways.

By now Lagos should be talking of having it’s own Power grid (24hr Power supply) and Functional train/light rail system.



He should make that his priority!

HallaDaTruth:
Anti Christ warming up to step in and bring fake world peace . Remember the saying of the illuminati . OUT OF CHAOS COMES ORDER

There have always been Protests - since the ancient days.

I am not saying we are not in the last days - but not everything should be reduced to religious doctrines.

On the contrary - I see a wave of angry youths... something presently missing in Nigeria!

FOR ANYONE trying to follow protest movements around the world it is hard to keep up.

Large anti-government demonstrations, some peaceful and some not, have taken place in recent weeks in countries on every continent: Algeria, Bolivia, Britain, Catalonia, Chile, Ecuador, France, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lebanon and more. On November 1st Pakistan joined the ever-lengthening roll as tens of thousands of protesters converged on the capital, Islamabad, to demand that the prime minister, Imran Khan, stand down within 48 hours......

But this seems more coincidence than coherence. The initial causes of the protests could hardly be more varied: in Lebanon a tax on phone calls via services such as WhatsApp; in Hong Kong proposed legislation allowing the extradition of criminal suspects to China; in Catalonia long prison sentences for advocates of independence; in Britain, demands for a second Brexit referendum. Far from representing a global movement coalescing around common demands, the protesters’ shared slogan, if they had one, would be borrowed from Marlon Brando’s character in the banned 1953 film “The Wild One”. Asked what he is rebelling against, he answers: “What’ve you got?”

The difficulty in discerning a pattern has of course not stopped pundits from trying. Broadly speaking the explanations fall into three categories: the economic, the demographic and the conspiratorial.

Economic explanations make much of the way in which seemingly minor knocks to living standards (a 4% rise in metro fares in Chile, for example) have proved the final straw to people struggling to get by in increasingly unequal societies. For the left, this is just the latest paroxysm of a dysfunctional and doomed capitalism. As Red Flag, an Australian socialist journal, sees it: “For more than four decades, country after country has been ravaged by neoliberal policies designed to make the mass of workers and the poor pay for what is a growing crisis in the system.”

Even fans of free markets see widening inequality in a number of countries as a cause of the concerted disgruntlement. Chile, they point out, long seen as a haven of stability in Latin America, yet so turbulent now it has had to cancel two international summits due to be held in Santiago, is on some measures the most unequal country in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.

The demographic explanation notes that protest is, by and large, an activity of the young, and humanity is still relatively youthful, with a median age of just under 30, and a third of people aged under 20.

The generation reaching what might be seen as the peak-protesting years of the late teens and early 20s have come of age since the global financial crisis of 2007-08. In demographic terms, this might be seen as the reckoning for the great recession that resulted from it. In the Times of London, Niall Ferguson, a historian, takes this argument one stage further, drawing a parallel with the 1960s, and pointing out that in both periods there was an “excess of educated young people”, because of a boom in tertiary education, producing more graduates than there are jobs for.

As for conspiracies, governments of course like to suggest that protests are whipped up and manipulated by sinister outside forces. On Hong Kong, the Chinese foreign ministry suggested in July that the protests were “somehow the work of the US”. In Latin America, theories have spread that the socialist regimes of Cuba and Venezuela were fomenting unrest across the continent to distract attention from their own troubles.

Economic and demographic factors and even outside meddling may have played a role in some of the protests. But as unifying theories, none really stands up. The world economy faces many troubles, but they do not approach the seriousness of those faced a decade ago when the world was on the brink of depression and unemployment soared, yet far fewer people were taking to the streets.

Protests tend to be dominated by the young. But a striking feature of many demonstrations—from “Bremain” marches in London to anti-China protests in Hong Kong—is how many of the middle-aged and elderly have turned out as well. And as for the foreign meddling—nobody, except perhaps those camped in the wildest fringes of the internet, really believes some global mastermind is pulling strings all over the world.

So perhaps the search for a unifying theory is pointless. After all, when you look more closely at the earlier waves, the impression of coherence seems illusory. They too were more variegated than is often assumed. The global upheavals of the late 1960s ranged from Red Guards in China, pursuing a millennial cult concocted by Mao Zedong to help him win an intra-party power struggle, to affluent Western youths who had stumbled on the joys of long hair, psychedelic drugs and sexual promiscuity. In between were protesters against the Vietnam war, the Soviet domination of eastern Europe and the tedious insistence on attending lectures at universities.

Even the people-power revolutions of 20 years later were as marked by their differences as their similarities. Right-wing strongmen such as the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos or South Korea’s Chun Doo-hwan were a far cry from east European thugs such as Nicolae Ceaușescu and Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Perhaps the answer is to go back to first principles and ask: what makes people take their grievances to the streets? Two reasons are rarely mentioned: that, for all its legal and physical dangers, protest can be more exciting and even more fun than the drudgery of daily life; and that when everybody else is doing it, solidarity becomes the fashion.

Every wave of protests has its copycat element. The ubiquity of the smartphone, however, has transformed how protests are organised, popularised and sustained. Encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram enable protesters to stay one jump ahead of the authorities. New symbols and techniques can spread like wildfire. Almost as soon as a specially written “anthem” for Hong Kong’s protesters went online, shopping malls were brought to a halt by apparently spontaneous mass renditions.

The third obvious reason for demonstrating is that using conventional political channels seems futile. In the protests of the late 1980s, the targets were usually autocratic governments that allowed at best sham elections. In the absence of the ballot box, the street was the only way to demonstrate “people power”. Some of this year’s protests—against Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria, say, or Omar al-Bashir in Sudan—have been analogous. But apparently well-functioning democracies have also been affected.

For a number of reasons, people may be feeling unusually powerless these days, believing that their votes do not matter. One is the increasing attention paid to environmental issues, notably climate change in some protests (though some others have been provoked by environmental taxes, designed, for example, to curb fuel consumption). Carbon emissions demand global solutions beyond the reach of one government, let alone one vote. A second, again, is the influence of social media, with its tendency to amplify those voices that agree with you and mute others, and hence make more acute the feeling that the powers-that-be “never listen”. A third is a perhaps related growth in intolerance, a breakdown in the bargain at the heart of Western-style democracy—that losers, who may often represent a majority of the popular vote, will agree to accept rule by the winners until the next election.

This, however, is not an especially helpful or hopeful conclusion. Little suggests these trends are about to go into remission. In which case, this third wave of protest may not be the harbinger of a global revolution, but simply the new status quo.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.economist.com/international/2019/11/04/why-are-so-many-countries-witnessing-mass-protests.

IdeasPro:
I know we are not here to go into intellectual debate or to split hairs, one thing I'm convinced of is that ethical issue is a function of order, law, religion, morality, etc. Quick question for you, "Can we now say that it is ethically wrong to use pen names to do business in areas you're an expert but want to hide your real identity?"

There are several reasons writers prefer to use pen names, and it’s not ethically wrong to use pen names for a piece of work you wrote. Names are representative of identities and does not replace the writer.

What is ethically wrong is passing-off another person’s work as yours. It is also in fact illegal, and in law - the person whose intellectual property is infringed will be entitled to bring a claim under the Tort of Passing-off.

Ethics only comes in where the context requires the work to be done by one person, and it was represented to be done by that person, but was in fact done by another person. E.g. ICAN EXAMS, school projects, essay competitions etc.

IdeasPro:
There is nothing to debate about ghostwriting services being ethical or not. You're being paid for a service that is NOT A CRIME. If your church leader or office boss asks you for a write up and presents it as his own, can you say it's unethical? Now, you're being paid for your specialization!

Respectfully, You are wrong.

Firstly, Law and Morality are two different things. Whether it’s a crime or not has nothing to do with Ethical values.

Secondly, the relationship of Boss to employee, or Church leader to follower is different from Mercenary to student.

So for instance, there is no reprimand for Boss or Church Leader who presents a speech as his own.

But any student who is discovered to have engaged a mercenary to write his Project or Course work may be Suspended, Rusticated and/or given a lower mark in that assessed work.

Bottomline is that, it depends on the context.

Op - It’s debatable to claim that Ghostwriting is Unethical.

For instance, when Teni wrote a song for Davido, she seized to be the owner of that content. She obviously was paid for that service.

But I don’t see anything Unethical about that, because the ghostwriter is simply offering a service he or she is being paid for.

Conversely, Ghostwriting could be Unethical or even illegal - from the standpoint of academics. If a machinery writes a piece of Thesis for a student, which the student passes-off as her intellectual property - then it may be considered Unethical.

Whichever way, if you have got the talent - Ghostwriting is a good Side hustle. Many politicians employ the skills of content writers to write their speeches - and get paid for it.

As long as you are not committing a crime, it’s a good way to make money.

Northerners are the Key, if the East will ever produce the President .

Northerners may appear the least educated but they are the most politically educated tribe in Nigeria.

The East must produce a candidate who can shed himself of the eastern agenda. The candidate must appear Nigerian.

As long as they portray an eastern project - I doubt they will ever produce a president.

The candidate must be Nigerian first. Doubtless, the East deserves a shot.

sonature1:
I am afraid you don't have a point.

Big grammar doesn't take any reasonable people anywhere. It has never helped this country, and it never will.

If Nigeria was a serious country, every governor would key into Buhari's drive to grow the local economy.

China nearly blocked everything foreign to grow her local economy. Today, she is competing with almighty United States of America.

Speaking of which, I don't suppose Kia had to bid to get the contract. The governor settled for the product out of choice, so leave bidding out of this.

Its okay if you think big grammar doesn’t take reasonable people anywhere. It’s not my problem if you have a problem with big grammar. How I communicate my thoughts has no bearing with the validity of my thought process. And yes, big grammar is a sign of education.

Now - I am afraid you are wrong. None of your so-called Governors in the East drive Innoson vehicles. None of the Federal government officials use Innoson vehicles as their official vehicles. None of the legislators do as well.

Bottom line, don’t come here to preach to me about how SW governors don’t patronise Innoson. Innoson is not the only Nigerian-made-product in Nigeria. But you lots, out of malice I must say, consistently malign and tribalise other tribes because it is an Igbo project?

Have you forgotten Proforce also makes military and paramilitary vehicles, owned by a YORUBA man ?

FYI - nothing in the Nigerian Public Procurement Act 2007, which regulate government’s acquisitions of goods and services, mandates any government in Migeria to buy local... over Value for money. If you want that to change, talk to your government to reform it.

Nobody speaks against Eastern governors when then don’t patronise Proforce for their police vehicles. Don’t come here to lecture us on Buying local.

Smithkafors:
He is not tribalising anything,he is telling you what he has observed.Even some northern states buy IVM,but non from SW.He knows what he is saying.

That’s not entirely true:

obiekunie2:
HE WILL RATHER PATRONISE KIA

THAT PATRONISE INNOSON.



SEBI UNA SEE WETIN I DEY TALK ABOUT SINCE BA?

IF INNOSON NA YORUBA MAN AND AN IGBO MAN DESIGNED THAT LOGO FOR HIM, HE WILL DO EYES LIKE HE DIDNT SEE IT!

Who are you and why should anyone listen to what you say?

Tribal bigot.

You can choose to purchase all your shoes, wears and food stuffs from Aba or Onitsha, if you are so passionate about patronising your kins men.

But don’t come online and throw tantrums on other tribes, because of your ignorance.

In case you don’t know, procurement of goods in governance is often determined by value for money, viz;
Cost efficiency
Cost of Maintenance
Availability of spare parts
Discount on price
Durability
Etc.,
Usually determined through bids.

While there is the onus to buy local, it’s not mandatory to do so. Otherwise, the Nigerian Military would buy all its military vehicles from Nigerian Proforce.

Don’t tribalise everything please.

The cost of governance in Nigeria is so high.

So many unnecessary portfolios, parastatals and ministries.

How can you explain the ministry of Happiness and early salary payment.

There is no way these ministries are generating IGRs, yet they will take a chunk of budgetary allocations that could go to Education, Trade and investment and Agriculture.

I couldn’t agree more with the quote below.

Guyman02:
The reality is that no company was willing to invest in supplying gas to Calabar power plant without a take or pay agreement.
The problem now is that Calabar power plant has a capacity of 561MW, but it's not generating up to capacity because the Distribution companies are not ready to take the whole power generated which they blame on poor revenue collection.
So the power plant is asked to generate below capacity, running 2 out of 5 turbines most times while the gas is available there, because the company has to recoup it's investment, the FG has to pay a percentage for not using the supplied gas while the citizens suffer lack of adequate power.

I know this because I work in the generation system which is frustrating to us watching what the Discos are doing to Nigerians

You make it sound like it’s the Discos fault.

It’s an egg and chicken case here - you don’t expect Discos to buy more than they can afford. The real problem is with the Take or Pay Agreement signed by the NDPHC.

If you ask me - I am not a fan of long term deals. If you are going to sign a 20 years deal - then you should subject it to review every 2 years, so that, that way - you can amend some terms to account for changing realities.

I wonder who their legal advisers are.

matify83:
statistical comparisons between 2 nations in different social structure and with dis-similar economic variables can sometimes be confounding.

making matters worse still would be comparing the daily allowance of Nigerian prisoners to workers on the minimum wage of less than 30,000 and you will pity you freedom.

True.

How do you compare a developed society with a third world country ?

It’s just like comparing a 2020 Rolls-Royce with a 1999 Toyota Camry.

BTW:
Prisons.
Lots of Prisons in the US are privately owned. They run For-Profit Prison systems and these prisons make up money through the incarceration of prisoners.

With a private prison, many of the burdens are taken off the government and put onto a private company. Instead of all the business that goes along with running a prison, the government simply has to supply the prisoners, and oversee the prison. The building, facilities and maintenance are outsourced to private bodies.

Do you now see how they fair better? - prison wise.

Minimum wage.
Again, minimum wage works in the US because it doesn’t just apply to Public Institutions or Civil Service. All Private companies in the US must pay the minimum wage to Unskilled Labour - with the exceptions of the black market labour, for those who are undocumented (and, I must say, this is illegal, so the authorities mustn’t know).

In Nigeria, even the federal and state governments are struggling to pay the minimum wage, let alone requiring the average gas stations or business centres in the street to pay 30k minimum to its Petrol and cafe attendants. Even some fresh graduates don’t earn up to 30k in their white collar jobs.

Aregbesola was not thoughtful to make such comparisons.

lexy2014:
How do u no that she was "sexually harassed" (whatever that means) by her victim? Did she seek d guys consent b4 she physically assaulted him?

Knowledge is different from Probabilities. Don’t quote me if you don’t know the difference. Go back to school, if you must.

Nthrone:
How sure are you that the said guy actually sexually harassed her, can't you see is a crowd, some one could get pushed

Sureness and Certainties are different from Probabilities. Don’t quote me if you don’t know the difference. Go back to school, if you must.

IamCharles123:
Watch the video b4 assuming things

Assumptions are different from probabilities. Go back to school, if you must. But don’t quote me without understanding the difference.

udemzyudex:
The way some people go just pick one mumu example just to further portrait their nonsense talk dey tire me for this forum.

You just carry sexual harassment enter the talk when nothing like that they the post,and you read say the guy dey with him babe even after several punches from her he still dey try explain to the babe beside him.

Oga carry your mumu analysis comot for here joor.

You do not have the intellectual wherewithal to quote or mention me. You just simply don’t.

Please do not quote me again. Thanks.

solmusdesigns:



Buhari is very wicked, just look at a once cheeful Dino Melaye looking like typhod patient


..

What has Buhari got to to do with Dinos woes?

This Senator was ALWAYS posting pictures of his high end vehicles and flaunting his wealth on social media. Very expensive vehicles at that.

If you ask me, he had this coming a long time ago. People need to realise they can’t be in Power for eternity.

My only problem is that the next person to take his seat may be worse than him. Nigeria is not so blessed with good leaders.

Jayslicky:


That guy deserves on bottle ouf Heineken, "never hit a woman, never hit a woman" is their slogan, if you have ever been held by the balls by a woman you will ditch that stupid slogan.

I am not saying you are wrong;

But Do you consider the chance that the lady was provoked - E.g. that the guy was sexually harassing her from behind?

Some ladies, even in a club, don’t like to be touched without their consent, and quite rightly.

Codyt:
Will you just stfu. Sigh

There is always a stewpid one. Congratulations.

Samfloxin:
Why them carry this kid put for this kind church...prays she leaves when she grows up

Why?

Because your are saints in your church?

Coldie:
What he said is true. In Nigeria they arrest u and u use money to hire lawyer and still bail yourself over an alleged case. If in Nigeria u can sue for a false arrest all this nonsense go stop

In Nigeria u are guilty until proven innocent.

In reasonable countries you are innocent until proven guilty.

A wanted criminal in america can be in your house opposite a police station do u know, the police don't have right to come into your house until they have a warrant.

But in Nigeria police way never see u before would see u and demand to search your phone just like that without any warrant or anything

That’s wrong.

A police officer in the US may validly enter into the house of a third party without a Search Warrant - if they have an arrest warrant for the wanted criminal... especially in exigent circumstances. You should usually see this as well in the movies. Wanted criminals are considered threats to the society so - legal frameworks are not strictly complied with in limited circumstances, which includes the one you painted.

And your reference on Nigeria is also wrong.

It is legal for the Police to stop and search ANY SUSPECT, including their items - without a warrant. S.. 4 and 29 of the Police Act. This not an absolute right, but it is legal in the formal sense. Anyone aggrieved by such search may however proceed to court for unlawful search and seizure provided any fundamental right as provided in Chapter IV of the constitution was violated; e.g Privacy, illegal detention. See Alade v FRN

You can also pursue a civil action against any police officer if you determine he/she has caused you physical/financial injury through an unlawful search/arrest. See Dallison v Caffrey.

And yes, you can sue for unlawful arrest - see Adegboye Ibikunle v the state.

The problems are that citizens are not aware of these rights, or do not have the finance to pursue such claims or are afraid of retributions. However, this does not mean the system for redress is not available, if anyone wants to pursue it. It’s the same way in the US, the UK and all over the world.