Typicool8: Very soon you will see zombies rushing to defend the useless govt as well as start insulting ASUU but the truth is that if slot of us were to be in ASUU's shoes, we would do worse. No sane country jokes with their educational sector except Nigeria, the govt don't care simply because their kids don't study in Nigeria..I hope we get things right come 2023
For failing to deal with the justifiable ASUU strike APC should be roundly rejected at the 2023 polls. APC and Buhari are a dismal failure. Just yesterday around an eatery in one of the Nigerian State capitals I saw a one but the last model of Toyota Camry Car with a “NANS” “PRESIDENCY” Registration Plate Numbers driven in cool air conditioned comfort by a young man who had a young lady with large bling-bling eye glasses for company. I asked myself: 1. Is ASUU indeed on strike? 2. Are the youth in this country really concerned about their future? 3. What is NANS really all about? So saddening!!!
Please do! Irresponsible statement coming from a Federal Minister. You do not speak to the matter that way. A matter that has, time and again brought sorrow and tears to numerous Nigerians and their distraught families.
Ebe isonu. Contrary to what many say, politicians and the other treasury thieves amongst us will be hardest hit as they keep at misgovernance. Expect a people uprising with time. The sheep that has its back to the wall will bite!
okeysoninv: don't trust Britain , they are going to betray allied forces. at the end Russia will nuke Britain. London will enter into the sea. bookmark this.
Face saving demand! There are a thousand and one Ayu’s still left in the PDP top echelon to do Atiku’s bidding. Wike will do well to accept his fate and stay in the PDP playing the godfather. He had his time playing second to none in PDP using Secundus.
marryjamess: It doesn't matter if there are just a few drops or a substantial puddle; this raises some sort of concern in the mind. You can afford to ignore the oil leak, but you should never try to put it off completely while keeping in mind the repercussions.
However, finding an oil leak for a professional is not difficult as it can be done with just a quick inspection. However, once there is an oil spot, it is up to you how you respond.
Your car uses gaskets to close up a number of points, including the timing belt cover, camshaft, and the oil pan, etc. However, they frequently serve as the primary cause of leaks of any kind.
In the meantime, it is preferable to have a few ideas about what could be causes and where your car might be leaking oil.
Worn Oil Pan Gasket
The oil pan is a common spot for oil leakage. The oil pan is located somewhere near the bottom under the hood. Therefore, there is a huge probability for damage from a hit when travelling over an uneven bump.
However, if used for a prolonged period of time, oil pan gaskets are vulnerable to wear and tear. A worn oil pan gasket will not be able to seal the oil pan with the engine block.
Oil pan gaskets can be changed, but you must be sure of the exact amount of engine oil because leakage could cause it to reduce. Simply schedule a car oil change at Service My Car if it is below the recommended level.
Cam Shaft and Crankshaft Seals
As an engine’s internal component, the crankshaft is fixed at the bottom while sticking out a bit from two sides of an engine.
However, it is protected by the seals at both ends to prevent the engine oil from leaking. But, if these seals start to worn out, there are a whole lot of chances of leakage.
Similarly, the camshaft too has seals at both ends, and they might get worn over time, resulting in leakage.
However, it cannot be identified until you make an inspection under the hood. A leak needs to be taken care of on-time.
Cover Gasket or Seal
In an engine, a timing belt works with the crankshaft and camshaft. Modern automobiles use a timing chain rather than a timing belt, though both are concealed by a cover.
A timing chain is lubricated by the engine oil, so there are seals to protect any kind of leakage. But, there is always a probability of leakage. This leakage does not appear too hazardous until it results in a lack of lubrication and, consequently, some sort of internal damage.
A common risk due to timing cover seal leakage is damage to the timing chain and even the camshaft and crankshaft. Therefore, you have to check for the seal and replace it as well as look for the timing chain and go for car timing chain replacement if needed.
Leaking Cylinder Head Gasket
A head gasket protects the engine from the infiltration of coolant. However, if it gets worn, there are a lot of chances of coolant infiltration, but in some types of engines (especially boxer engines); the head gasket may cause external leakage of engine oil.
Therefore, a worn head gasket is not a matter of ignorance as it might affect engine operations and force you to go for expensive car engine repair.
Loose Oil Filter and Drain Plug
Every time you arrange a car service for your vehicle, the oil filter is always changed and the oil drain plug is exchanged. However, there are enough chances of human error that your car’s air filter might get loose and the oil drain plug is not installed properly.
In such a scenario, you may often spot some oil dripping under your car.
Loose-Filler Cap
Engine oil is reserved inside an oil tank and it is safeguarded with a filler cap. However, a loose cap might be the reason for the leakage.
However, it is simple to spot because there might be a sizable oil puddle under your car because oil may leak out of the tank's mouth in large quantities.
Excess Engine Oil
It is expected that a damaged seal or a loose filler cap will cause an engine oil leak. If there is too much engine oil under the hood, it could also leak.
You can recognize this if there is a puddle of oil under your car but there is no check engine light on the dashboard.
The overflow is caused by too much oil. The extra oil can easily be identified from the vehicle using a dipstick, so this is not a serious problem. When filling the oil tank, there may occasionally be some extra oil that spills out of the tank. However, this might only produce a puddle of oil once or twice.
Your vehicle consists of a number of fluids, such as transmission fluid, brake fluid, and coolant, etc. They all hold a risk of leakage. However, engine oil is more prone to leakage. The leakage from the engine often appears to be light brown or black in colour under your vehicle.
However, a leakage happens due to the worn and damaged parts, while you can easily avoid such events by opting for scheduled car maintenance at a reliable service centre such as Service My Car. Here, you also get all your needs fulfilled with your car service without any hassle. Just book a service online or request a quote at our website. You can also call our service representative.
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Strangely you forgot to mention punctured sump occasioned by bad roads.
OgaDeyVex: A Man Suspected to be a vandal has been electrocuted in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, Reports.
It Was Gathered By , that the suspect was electrocuted on Monday afternoon, August 15, while allegedly trying to steal cables from a transformer at Kolade Estate in Ogo Oluwa area of Osogbo.
It could be suicide. Thinking out of the box. Did he have tools on him? Why steal transformer in the daytime when the chances of being apprehended are high? Et al.
Laggafin: Christian states should please flush out all extremists from within dia Territories.. Enough of this one world nonsense.. its crystal clear that those who believe they are duty bound to fight for their Lame god can't coexist peacefully with other faiths who believe in the God that fights for himself..
The supposedly civilised and educated West does not know Islam and Muslims well enough to have related with the belief system the way it does. Truth is, Islam is an either or proposition. Islam knows no dissent and will kill for such dissenting. Islam takes no prisoners. Islam, anywhere it gains ground covers same for itself. That Fatwa was bound to be executed by a Muslim someday. It is considered an honour. The West does not understand Taqqiya and ignores it to its detriment.
Full Video- Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed after taking stage at a Chautauqua Institute event. He received aid on-site and was able to eventually walk off stage with assistance.
supposedly civilised and educated West does not know Islam and Muslims well enough to have related with the belief system the way it does. Truth is, Islam is an either or proposition. Islam knows no dissent and will kill for such dissenting. Islam takes no prisoners. Islam, anywhere it gains ground covers same for itself. That Fatwa was bound to be executed by a Muslim someday. It is considered an honour. The West does not understand Taqqiya and ignores it to its detriment.
Time and again experience has been the best teacher for Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as somersaults through life. English language describes a fellow like him in just one word….!
Should be interesting to learn what his life commends to the youths and his subjects generally speaking. The Ooni Sijuwade scions have kept the lid on his potty
What have you achieved in the area of finding out and remedying the causative factors of child, women and brain trafficking. Brain drain has not worried them! Tired souls!! Borrow a leaf from Boris Johnson- RESIGN!
Shameless lot. Resign if you cannot run a responsible government. You guys lack Shame and your names are gone to the dogs. Thoroughly irresponsible lot!
Considering that Buhari has serially failed to provide security in Nigeria it’s about time Nigerians take their security in their own hands afterall, as they say, “security is everyone’s responsibility”!
Rather than pick up the helpful info and do the needful the lady is about needless criticism of the BBC journalists who have done what Nigerian journalists and intelligence agencies could not do.
It has become imperative that the letter written by Mr. Olumide Akpata requesting that one of his predecessors in office who is also one of the undisputed leading lights of the legal profession, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN recuses himself as the chairman of the Body of Benchers (BOB) because of a pending petition against a member of his firm be objectively considered against the backdrop of applicable laws.
Olumide Akpata is himself a lawyer and currently president of the NBA, thus imbuing him with responsibility to make representations that align with law in manners that are not easily questionable, if not all together untenable.
The NBA president had confidently asserted in and as the basis of his letter that:
“As you know, LPDC is a Standing Committee of the BOB whose processes come under the supervision of the Chairman of the BOB – an office which you currently occupy”
The letter did not state any law relied upon by the NBA President to inform the conclusion that the processes of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) come under the supervision of the Chairman of the BOB. Supervisory powers over an adjudicating body like the LPDC is one of law and not conjecture and this must be obvious to the President of the NBA. One would have expected the NBA President to validate his assertion with statutory provisions since he was writing about organizations set up by law and with clearly defined and written statutory documentation regulating their operations. The reason he chose not to do this is easily discernable, and it is because there is no statute that supports his position. Conversely, statute(s) expressly negate(s) his position. It is expected that every lawyer or at least the NBA President is familiar with the Legal Practitioners Act. Section 12 (7) of the Legal Practitioners Act provides thus in respect of punitive directions given by the LPDC:
“The person to whom this section relates may, at any time within 28 days from the date of service on him of notice of the direction, appeal against the direction to the Supreme Court; and the disciplinary committee may appear as respondent to the appeal and…..”
What is clear from the above is that, it is the Supreme Court of Nigeria and not the Chairman of the Body of Benchers that exercises Jurisdiction over the LPDC. It is the Supreme Court that has the authority to review, set aside or affirm the decision of the LPDC. Will the NBA President claim ignorance of this?
The LPDC is a juristic person, just like the Body of Benchers is also a juristic person. Both entities can sue and be sued in court and have, on several occasions been sued in court in their individual names. A claim against the LPDC is not tantamount to a claim against the Body of Benchers and vice versa. Proceedings before the LPDC are regulated by rules made by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the extant one, being the LPDC Rules, 2020. The rules that relate to the consideration and determination of whether a complaint against a Legal practitioner discloses a case to answer are as reproduced below:
“5.— (1) An Application made in accordance with rule 4 shall initially be considered by a member of the Committee (“the initial committee member”) on the directive of the Chairman for consideration for the question of whether there is a case to answer in respect of the allegations made in the Originating Application.
(2.) If the initial committee member considers that there is a case to answer in respect of any or all the allegations made and is not of the opinion that the question is one of doubt or difficulty then the initial committee member must certify that there is a case to answer.
(3.) If the initial committee member is minded not to certify that there is a case to answer in respect of all or some of the allegations made or is of the opinion that the question is one of doubt or difficulty, the question must be considered by a panel of three members of the Disciplinary Committee. The initial committee member may be a member of the panel. If the panel considers that there is a case to answer in respect of the allegations made, then it must certify that there is a case to answer in respect of those allegations.
(4) If the panel decides that there is no case to answer in respect of any of the allegations made, it may refuse or dismiss the Originating Application, or part of it, without requiring the respondent to answer the allegations and without hearing the applicant must be provided with written reasons explaining the decision.
(5) If a panel or committee member certifies that a case to answer is established in respect of all or any of the allegations made, the Secretary must serve a copy of each of the documents referred to in rule (4),(5) or (6), as the case may be on each respondent.”
No role in any of the above is reserved for the Body of Benchers. Order 7 of the LPDC Rules expressly states the parties to proceedings before the LPDC and the Body of Benchers is conspicuously not listed. It is the LPDC to the exclusion of the BOB that conducts hearing of complaints and by Orders 21 and 22 of the LPDC Rules, it is the LPDC itself that can make a finding of guilty or not guilty. Furthermore, Order 24 of the LPDC Rules gives the LPDC the power to revoke its own findings in certain circumstances. As lawyers, we know that statutory provisions are interpreted according to the ordinary dictionary meanings of the words in the Statute and that the express mention of a thing in a statute is the exclusion of all other things. See the Supreme Court decisions in the cases Abegunde v. OSHA & Ors. (2015) LPELR – 24588 (SC) 41 and Marwa & Ors. v. Nyako & Ors. (2012) LPELR – 7837 (SC) 172 (cases which coincidentally were handled by the law firm of Wole Olanipekun & Co.). There is no single provision of the Legal Practitioners Act, RPC, or LPDC Rules on substantive hearing of a complaint that reserves any decision-making role for the BOB or its chairman and I challenge the NBA President to state any if it exists.
In the face of all these statutory provisions stating the contrary, on what basis did the President of the umbrella Body of lawyers in Nigeria conclude in his letter that the processes of the LPDC come under the supervision of the Chairman of the BOB? The NBA President went on to state in his letter that:
“As Lord Denning put it “Justice must be rooted in confidence; and confidence is destroyed, when right-minded people go away thinking that the Judge is biased”
The NBA President could not even bother to be detailed or meticulous enough to state the exact case where Lord Denning MR made the postulation. In any event, it was Metropolitan Properties Co (FGC) Ltd v. Lannon (1969) 1 QB 577. As lawyers, one of our basic trainings is to reference cases properly and deploy precedents appropriately in subsequent circumstances. Accordingly, it will be necessary to do a brief recap of the circumstances that made Lord Denning MR to make the comments stated in the NBA President’s letter. In the said case, the respondent, Mr. Lannon (a legal practitioner) was living with his father at a flat in Regency Lodge, Swiss Cottage London and was also helping his father out in a dispute on appropriate rent payable with his Landlord. Other tenants were involved in the dispute, and it was referred to the Rent Assessment Committee where Mr. Lannon sat as the Chairman. The said committee fixed the applicable rent at a ridiculously low rate, that was even lower than the amount proposed to be paid by the tenants. It was on realizing the relationship of Mr. Lannon with the property that the Appellant made a case against his qualification to sit as chairman of the Rent Assessment Committee. Therefore, Mr. Lannon was actual decision maker and Judge. Is Olanipekun a Judge in the same manner as Mr. Lannon when it has been shown statutorily that the BOB and its chairman do not participate in the decision-making process of the LPDC and Olanipekun is not also a member of LPDC?
If anything gives the impression of injustice, it is the request by the NBA president and 1st Vice President to the LPDC for a determination of whether Olanipekun is liable to be disciplined by the LPDC. Imagine the incongruity – the NBA President wants the LPDC to first determine Olanipekun’s liability so that, after a determination of that liability, a complaint will now be made to the same LPDC for a trial to enable the same LPDC formally make a decision in line with its earlier finding on liability. Would the trial not be a circus or dress rehearsal and case of “come and receive your predetermined verdict”. And all these requests are made in a petition where Olanipekun is not a party. What a crass breach of fair hearing. Any lawyer who paid proper attention at University (Nigerian) and Law School will still recall the celebrated case of Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee v. Chief Gani Fawehinmi (1985) LPELR -1776 (SC) where the Supreme Court held that the LPDC populated by the same members who already had a guilty predisposition against the iconic Chief Gani Fawehinmi could not sit to try him for professional misconduct.
I had made my points in this write up with both case law and statute unlike the NBA President’s letter which referred to none. Would it be that the NBA President is not aware of these statutory provisions and case law or he chose to ignore them? Either scenario is unpalatable. The Legal Practitioners Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) mandate lawyers to be candid and not present positions that are clearly untenable. In fact, Rule 32 (a) requires lawyers to disclose positions of law that are adverse to their case if same is known to them. Can it be said that Akpata’s submission to the general public that the processes of the LPDC are under the supervision of the Chairman of the BOB is candid? I do not think so. The National Judicial Council (NJC) is the appointor and employer of all Judges in Nigeria; yet litigants sue NJC successfully before courts manned by Judges and Justices who are NJC employees. That is even in more direct relationships and yet, nobody asks Judges to disqualify themselves in these cases; NJC even loses some of these case and an example is the Court of decision in National Judicial Council v. Hon. Justice P.N.C Agumagu & Ors. (2018) LPELR-25403 (CA) – a case also handled by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN. Is Akpata also impugning the characters of the members of the LPDC by stating that they are susceptible to influence? So many questions that beg for answers.
My advise to Olanipekun is that he should remain calm. These times shall pass and he will continue to stand tall and tower. As for me, I pray that I will be like Olanipekun and let those who don’t pray for similar feats like his genuinely pray to God that they will not be like him. These kinds of orchestrated attacks were made against those before him, and this will also fail. What further evidence of orchestration does one need aside that of Akpata himself that his own role in was to write the letter and he has done it but it was the role of others to challenge Olanipekun at the recent BOB meeting as if it is a relay race where batons are being passed. If I may query, why did Akpata write a letter to Olanipekun as sole addressee, and he decided to send it to every single member of the BOB even before a response from Olanipekun? This is aside the fact that he released the letter to the entire world before even delivering same to Olanipekun. The real addressees of the letter are obvious and its intention palpable, which is to set up a mob against Olanipekun and put him on a slab. All of these will also fail. As for John Aikpokpo-Martins who swore to the affidavit in support of the Petition against Ms. Ogunde, he should please refer to the implication of giving false evidence under Order 17 of the LPDC rules especially as it relates to his inconsistent position on on Ms. Ogunde’s ostensible authority from the other Olanipekun partners even when he had stated under oath that both Ms. Ogunde and the firm expressly stated that she had no such authority. He has not brought evidence to show the said ostensible authority and he also knows when ostensible authority can be presumed under the partnership law of Lagos State.
Tooni Bamisaye, a legal practitioner, writes from Victoria Island, Lagos.
Highly jaundiced and dishonourable view coming fromTooni Bamisaye. www knows it is the least honourable thing to do in all the circumstances that Olanipekun steps down. It is fairly apparent that is what they do on his law firm. The Firm found it convenient to throw Partner Adekunbi Ogunde under the bus and labelled O.Y.O.
zoedew: Now FG is begging having admitted to its failure to secure the realm. Where are Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Lai Mohammed who have repeatedly lied to us on this matter. Thoroughly shameless lot who attach little to their names. Reuben Abati lies to himself in thinking Arise TV has laundered him clean from the murk he wallowed in when also lied to us profusely as President Jonathan’s spokesman.
Now FG is begging having admitted to its failure to secure the realm. Where are Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Lai Mohammed who have repeatedly lied to us on this matter. Thoroughly shameless lot who attach little their names. Reuben Abati lies to himself in thinking Arise TV has laundered him clean from the murk he wallowed in when also lied to us profusely as President Jonathan’s spokesman.
Most unfortunate statement coming from a supposed journalist. Say that as A Presidential Spokesperson about the Senate of the US and your goose is cooked. Anyway, what you have in Nigeria are spineless sinnators!
He is so shameless. He should have used Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital Ado Ekiti. I suppose he built and equipped EKTH sufficiently well enough!
Education › Re: Strike Continues, FG Yet To Take Concrete Action – ASUU by zoedew: 9:36am On Aug 24, 2022
Should be interesting to learn what his life commends to the youths and his subjects generally speaking. The Ooni Sijuwade scions have kept the lid on his potty
