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Jibrin Okutepa SAN I woke up this morning with a heavy heart—and a heavier sense of disappointment. The Nigerian legal profession, once proudly called a noble and honourable calling, is steadily mutating into something unrecognisable. The ethics that should guide lawyers to be society’s moral compass are now being treated like relics of a forgotten …

Continue reading "WHERE ARE THE ELDERS OF THE BAR: THE NOBILITY, INTEGRITY AND ETHICS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION ARE ALMOST IN EXTINCTION IN NIGERIA (Edited). By Jibrin Okutepa SAN"

There was a time—mythical now, like steady electricity—when membership of the Nigerian professional class carried with it an assumption of integrity. Judges were presumed to judge, doctors to heal, lawyers to argue cases rather than negotiate outcomes in corridors. Today, that assumption feels dangerously nostalgic. What we are witnessing is not isolated misconduct, but a …

Continue reading "The Descent to the Abyss: When Nigeria’s Professional Class Lost the Plot by Lawson Akhigbe"

For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration plans to roll out next year. It’s not because I did not recognize its gravity, but because I am not an economist and did not want to wade into a technically dense debate armed only with moral outrage.  …

Continue reading "Tinubu’s New Tax Regime as Sovereignty for Sale By Farooq A. Kperogi"

Anyone whose life consists of daily references to the Immigration Rules will tell you that the experience can feel a lot like deep ocean exploration in the Mariana Trench: despite constant research, you will still make new discoveries, even when you think there are no further depths to which you can sink. And like the …

Continue reading "Briefing: what is leave outside the Rules? By Alex Piletska"