Sunday 8 October 2017

EXPOSED: THOSE THAT EXPELLED KAYODE BELLO, NBA PRESIDENT, MAHMUD, IS FIRST ON THE LIST, AS OSAMOLU THREATENS LAW STUDENT OVER RELEASE OF RESULT


EXPOSED!!!

Those (Council of Legal Education) that expelled Kayode Bello, the Nigerian Law School student over poor facilities and seat reservation, the full list below. First on the list is the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) president, Mr. Mahmud, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, whom the expelled student complained to before his expulsion at the Nigerian Law School:

1. A.B. Mahmud SAN, NBA President
2. Prof. Sunday Edeko, Dean, Ambrose Alii University,
3. Dr. B. O. Omoleye, Ag. Dean, Ekiti State University
4. Prof. N. A. Inegbedion, Dean, University of Benin
5. Prof. M.O.U Gasiokwu, Dean, Delta State University
6. Prof. Jummai A.M. Audi, NBA Representative
7. Nkoyo Amah Esq., NBA Representative
8. Mr. J. O. Elenbalulu, NBA Representative
9. Ibrahim S. Mohammed Esq., Attorney-General, Kogi State
10. Prof. E. Smaranda Olarinde, Provost, Afe Babalola University
11. Prof. Mamman Lawan, Dean, Bayero University
12. Prof. E. A. Taiwo, Dean, Adekunle Ajasin University
13. Peter Mrokpur Esq., Attorney-General, Delta State
14. Prof. Frank Asogwah, Dean, Enugu State University
15. Dr. Ajibola Basiru, Attorney General, State of Osun
16. Prof. Nlerum S. Okogbule, Dean, Rivers State University
17. Prof. Godwin N. Okeke, Dean, Nnamdi Azikwe University
18. Prof. A. I. Olatunbosun, Dean, University of Ibadan
19. Dr. Abubakar M. Madaki, Dean, Ahmadu Bello University
20. Dr. (Mrs.) Rose Ohiama Ugbe, Dean, University of Galabar
21. Anaga Kalu Anaga Esq, NBA Representative
22. Prof. Sam Erugo, Dean, Abia State University
23. Prof. Dakas GJ. Dakas SAN, Dean, University of
24. Ghief Ademola Sadipe, NBA Representative
25. Prof. Amari Omaka SAN, Dean, Ebonyi State Ui
26.Prof. J.A.M. Agbonika, Dean, Kogi State University
27. Prof. A. O. Popoola, Dean, Obafemi Awolowo University
28. Umna. A. Hikima, Attorney-General, Kaduna State 29.Prof. Y. M. Yusuf, Dean, University of Maiduguri
30 Dr. K. 1. Adam, Dean, University of llorin
31 Dr. M. D. Mahmud, Dean, Usmanu Dan-Fodiyo University
32 Chief M. E. Eze, Attorney-General, Enugu State
33 Prof. M. S. Abubakar, Dean, Nasarawa State University
34 Haruna N. MuhD, Attorney-General, Kano State
35 Mr. Ibrahim Mark, NBA Representative
36 Aliyu M. Abdullahi, SAN, NBA Representative
37 Mazi Afam Osigwe, NBA Representative
38 Mr. Oseyenim Chukwuma, NBA Representative
39 Yusuf S. Ustnan mni, Attorney-General, Nasarawa State
40 Prof. Olusesan Oliyide, Dean, Olabisi Onabanjo University
41 Umeh Kalu, SAN, Attorney-General, Abia State
42 Prof. R.T. Ijaodoia, Dean, Igbinedion University
43 Mrs. Mandy Asagba, NBA Representatives
44 Ms. Aisha Ado Abdullahi, NBA Representative
45 Kemasuode Wodu, Esq., Attorney-General, Bayelsa State
46 O. 0. Olowokure Esq, NBA Representative
47 O. A. Onadeko, SAN, Director-General
48 Mrs.E.O.Max-Uba
49 Prof. Ayodeie V. Atsenuwa, Dean, University of Lagos
50 Ahmed Mustapha Goniri, Attorney-General, Yobe State
51 Kaka Shehu Lawal, Attorney- General, Borno State
52 Dr. Y.Y Dadem, Deputy Director-General, Kano Campus
53 Dr. Imo J. Udofa, Vice Dean, University of Lagos
54 Prof, Deji Olanrewaju, Rep. Dean, Babcock University
55Prof. S. A, M. Ekwenze, Dean, Chukwuemeka Odumegu Ojukwu University

Meanwhile, the Conscience Post gathered that the students of the Nigerian Law school who were expecting their result may have expressed their displeasure via the social media network as the Nigerian Law School released on its website that the new date for the release of the result would be 20th October, 2017.

However, in a swift reaction to one of the comments on the social medium where the students share ideas and information is a permanently placed Mr. Samuel Osamolu, the Head of the Academics, the Nigerian Law School , who had asked one of the students that expressed displeasure over the new date of the release of result to clarify what was meant by reffering the authorities of the Nigerian Law School as ''being mad'' for not releasing the results on the stipulated dates in a somewhat threatening tone.

However, the facebook page of the Nigeria Bar Association has been awash with the facts that Mr. Samuel Osamolu ought not to have been on the social medium for the students since he is a lecturer not a student.

It would be recalled that the authorities of the Nigerian Law School under the directorship of Mr. Lanre Onadeko, Senior Advocate of Nigeria  have devised means of eroding on the freedom of expression of the students as stories of corruption abound at the Nigerian Law School.

Conscience Post gathered that the delay in release of the  result might be connected with rumours of leaked examination questions prior to the Bar Final examination.

It is  noteworthy to state that passing rate at the Nigerian Law School has constantly been low as students of the school year in year out become scared or afraid of failing.

Also, an online medium has linked a leaked audio http://www.lawyard.ng/kayode-bello-audio-indicting-top-law-school-official-released-as-court-adjourns-case/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork credited to Mr. Samuel Osamolu publicly saying in the classroom of July 17, 2017 that the Nigerian Law School was experiencing poor facilities contrary to what is contained on the website of the Nigerian law school.

Monday 2 October 2017

DOUBTS


By Kay Bello.

Needless to write I almost told myself, but a black ball pen would always inspire. Since April I disembarked from that whale-like bowel en route Doha, Qatar, into the waiting hustling and bustling of the tropical region- Nigeria, I have done what I could. A change panacea had been sold to the people. We all must have bought into it. But just four days ago – November 16, 2015, an evening of Monday- a time HID Awolowo was brought to Ibadan for an eternal rest, someone whispered : ‘’the anti-corruption crusade is a coded one, only the intelligent would know it as a ruse, fluke.’’ From our own end, The Coalition, we should have known- a petition at the Aso Villa, and the other at the Hallow Chambers- both we can’t figure out what ate them up- the special dogs at the President’s place, or the Kwara man’s breed?

After reading through few lines of, ‘’Nineteen Eighty Four,’’ by George Orwell (real name: Eric Arthur Blair), and his thought at its back, ‘’ In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act,’’ some writing spirit came into me as if exorcised from a possessed soul. Old time friends are gone, the one who once flanked the side of Prof. Adewole - the Health Minister. A friend and foe of communication background - and that is Obajuluwa, consumed by the desire to survive the poverty war. A slight war of words broke out in the hallow Chambers of the most populous black country recently over a paltry amount of N5,000 monthly for the unemployed graduates in Nigeria. Some said the All Progressives Congress (APC) kicked against it, while others said the PDP- People Democratic Party brought it up to mar the administration of the President. Then, I remember my friends who had been out of jobs now. Some out of jobs others out of school due to the collapsed system. But days ago, the presidency had promised the start of the N5,000 naira payment in 2016. Bravo, right? But would that solve the basic problems of the unemployed? I doubt.

I can’t pause here I resolved. A number of issues to write on: local, University community, after all their own Adewole came from the University Community I refer as ‘Animal Farm’, national scene, and the international community- but one way or the other all interwoven. Any I could write on, worth the writing I submitted. There is a saying that what happens here changes the world, I suppose. Still on old-time friends but now the supposed foes too. Lai Mohammed, Audu Ogbeh , Rotimi Amaechi, Babatunde Fashola, and a host of others, even Kemi Adeosun had been in different political offices- a recycling move some think. Ben Murray-Bruce-the ‘Nigerian Obama,’ so tagged, had been making some sense, one time via his Silverbird Television, else the Television Continental (TVC) or so would have thrown his voice script into the thrash can. From old-time friends to supposed foes, an energy of youthfulness I had seen, but positions best reserved for them by the ‘Radical Brothers’ and company are that of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), and it had been rumoured Tokunbo Salako has an interest in such. Also, positions quite demeaning for political thuggery may have been reserved as well.

Labzy, a pseudonym, parades the Oyo State secretariat having lost election into the Students’ Unionism with the hope of a comeback in 2019 to tell those who felt he was not good enough that he could deliver from all fronts even the deliverables in terms of emotional satisfaction for the Radical Company. I had heard the scream so loud from the facebook ‘loudspeaker’: ‘’ leave the University of Ibadan for us, your mates are in Abuja riding cars.’’ Few I could pinpoint as riding cars, building houses or have built, getting married in a time of economic downturn, and political bashings and insincerity: ‘Dogara me, I Saraki you’’ or vice versa had dominated the pages and screens, as the fuel scarcity bites harder. The ‘Jagaban’ of Lagos State may have invested politically, but the Atiku’s permutations towards 2019 is what should give the Ebora of Owu sleepless nights. ‘’ PDP woos Saraki, others,’’ is a headline that would make El-Rufai of Kaduna State to immediately call the Code of Conduct Tribunal to hold on to the jugular of Saraki till 2018, if not 2019 or ‘forever’. Femi Falana, Rotimi Akeredolu, and Olagunsoye Oyinlola’s names were missing as ministerial nominees. Someone told others, somewhere in Ibadan before the editorials were unleashed: ‘’ Femi Falana did not go to see that man in Kaduna.’’ But why and for what? ‘’My age would limit my performance,’’ by the President is a statement no Nigerian must take with a pinch of salt.

A duty to screen the likes of Prof. Isaac Adewole, Rotimi Amaechi, Babatunde Fashola is a reflection of how the President can live up to expectations. That I know, the trio had petitions against them in the public domain. ‘’Mr President, your list of Ministers is not worth the long wait.’’ I remember Mr. President hurriedly submitted his ministerial list having arrived from the United Nations General Assembly. The haste revealed to Nigerians the recycling nature of the polity. The second list came within a short time the first was submitted, but did we ask: ‘’ Did Mr. President actually submit those ministerial nominees for screening by the agencies like Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, and the Department of State Services (DSS) among others, even the Code of Conduct Bureau.

Accused of always discussing more with the foreign media, Mr. President should be told to give some respect and recognition if he has not been doing so to our own ‘’ brown envelope’’ media. At least they write too, and broadcast. Maybe the President had felt the foreign media are more truthful or objective since they are not having Nigerians as their paymasters: he who pays the piper dictates the tune. But the Tinubus should dictate the tune of The Nation, Television Continental (TVC) in Nigeria for the good of APC in particular.

A wave of self-determination or separation is sweeping through the Eastern part of the country – the Biafran agitations, but they must know that this agitation led to the 1967 civil war, and the likes of Gowon and Obasanjo are still around. Gowon and Obasanjo would call the agitators miscreants and different unprintable names since they (Obasanjo and Gowon) saw to the end of the war and oneness of the country. Ojukwu who championed the war fled, later returned to become a political warlord, as Achebe wrote in his favour in, ‘’ There was a country.’’ Achebe today is not alive to see the agitations. During that time, Achebe went on exile in United Kingdom to become refugee. Would the Biafran agitations create refugees just like that of Syria and Iraq? Only time would tell, I love to express.

For a proper self-determination or independence process, I think the ‘Biafrans’ should take some lessons from what happened between Ukraine and Crimea, and Scotland and England, as recent development. Won’t a well-organized referendum do, just like it was done in Scotland? I doubt if the present government of the day would allow such independence or cession especially due to the fact that the so-called Biafran region has oil deposits that some cabals see as their means of livelihood or political power. The agitations may be about a good number of people, but the agitators must know that the cabals who had been in the political history and offices holding sway of the country for too long would stop at nothing to ‘keep’ the country together . This is my shilling for the Biafran agitators that do not belong to the political elite class in Nigeria.

France just declared war against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Levante) after the killing in Paris, but Nigeria and other countries had been battling insurgency years back. Someone wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg of facebook, expressing views on the call that people should pray for France. Should people not pray for Nigeria: on our Chibok girls especially? This was the view of the petitioner which I share part of. But another wrote that the call for the release of the girls from the Boko Haram Marauders went viral at the international community making comparison between the disappeared Malaysian MH370 and the Chibok girls an international debate. I doubt if those bombing actually would ensure rights of civilians especially the most vulnerable (children and women) when Syria or Iraq will be bombed further (as it has been). Migrants, refugees alike from Syria are being rejected by the US States, especially due to the recent development in France. There was a report that the France massacre may have been orchestrated in Syria, executed in France. Remember the Charlie Hebdo’s case? A media organization was attacked in France by terrorists over publication that satirized Muhammad. Any act of terror must be condemned in its totality, but further human rights violation may be underway in Syria and Iraq. Hope the likes of Amnesty International are watching, not only when the military is killing civilians in Nigeria that Amnesty should come with: ‘’ Stars on their shoulders, Blood in their hands.’’ Practically, the terrorists are more or less cowards hiding among the civilians and at times using them as shield, but when that human flesh goes up which will it be: that of the terrorist or of the innocent civilian? I doubt if the ‘assassins’ as carried in the news of days ago would not extend their tentacles to countries like Germany, Switzerland or other neighbouring countries. I read on facebook days ago on the timeline of a friend in the United Kingdom that there is a move or agitation to look into the freedom given the Muslims community in the United Kingdom. Real Muslims must be distinguished from the extremists or terrorists.

Waves of uncertainties or unprecedented negative developments may bring doubts on political, economic or social developments, but as a nation the country under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari must be sincere with the anti-corruption crusade, though that he had surrounded himself with people of questionable character (Prof. Adewole Isaac as Health Minister inclusive) is enough to cast a shadow of doubt on his promises and plans. However, he can check their excesses, but if the Ministers fail to declare their assets as he promised, it is not morally correct to brandish any anti-corruption weapon or dagger. Before we could wink, a four-year term will be over. And this is a reminder to Mr. President to not renege on his campaign promises as the school children are still salivating for their daily school meals, and the unemployed graduates are impatient for jobs that would provide food, clothing and shelter. When no jobs or money to keep body, soul and spirit together, the teeming youth population becomes readily available tools in the hands of politicians who have their children in oversea institutions receiving better teaching and trainings, then ‘Awelsu’ and ‘Oly myk’ (humans) come to mind: two friends and foes capable of doing ‘follow follow’ ( as sung by late Fela Anikulapo Kuti) for the Nigerian politicians. A stitch in time saves nine.

Punch line: Hope we won’t have ghost unemployed graduates next year!?


First published on November 20, 2015.

Saturday 30 September 2017

REJOINDER TO NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL'S LIES


By Kay Bello.

First and foremost, I must say a very big thank you all for your support so far, because without you maybe not a single soul would have heard about my illegal expulsion from the Nigerian Law School. All that had happened clearly showed that we cannot rest on our oars. However, it is quite shocking and shameful that the Nigerian Law School which everyone should see as a beacon of light and hope for justice had degraded to an arena of  lies and deception.
Anyway, I would chronicle my response which dates to October 13, 2008, when I was released from detention over hike in school fees. I do not want to bore us with details, but comments of those that knew about it all would show that I was not part of the said protest of the October 13, 2008, but I was already detained at the Sango Police station, and Iyaganku Police station subsequently when the protest broke out.
Today, the report the Nigerian Law School got from Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose, the then Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan was that I was involved in the disruption of peace and tranquility on campus. Please, fellow alumni of the University of Ibadan, who witnessed the 2008 protest on hike in school feesduring Professor Olufemi Bamiro’s regime as the Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of Ibadan, was I in the protest then? I allow those University of Ibadan graduates to be my witnesses. To answer that, if allowed, I was detained for three days without knowing the offence I committed.
One witness whom I withhold his name later inboxed me that I did not even distribute flyers as alleged by the authorities of the University of Ibadan. Moreover, I love to state that at no time did the authorities of the Nigerian Law School wanted to admit me into the Nigerian law school. The case of my unlawful denial of admission to the Nigerian Law School was reported by me to the Public Complaints Commission that stated that I could only reapply to the Nigerian Law School in 2016 admission period.
One of the statements by the Nigerian Law School that caught my attention was , ‘’ the Dean’s confidential report showed that he defied the authorities of the University and continued his programme without serving out the rustication period. It was when his defiance was discovered that he was forced to comply.’’ I think the Nigerian Law School knows what I don’t know of. In the University of Ibadan I know of, immediately the panel or committee rusticates or expels a student, you have to obey, and the Vice Chancellor would direct that the security operatives follow you to pack your belongings from the hostel. Maybe when we get to Court, the Nigerian Law School would provide when I was forced to comply with rustication.
‘’After his studentship was reinstated, he was unrepentant as the report indicated his involvement in a case of gross misconduct (insurbodination), which made the Board of the Faculty of Law to recommend him for further disciplinary action’’: with due respect to those who want us to be fit and proper, this statement is not complete and correct being that when I was recommended for the disciplinary action, what happened? The Dean, Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose that wrote you did not tell what happened as she and one
Dr. Akintayo John of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan were hell bent on expelling me from the University of Ibadan. The Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan pasted on its board for information, a summermulti-lateral international programme in Geneva, Switzerland in June, 2012,
I applied and I was admitted, but I needed fund, then I applied for grant to the then Vice Chancellor, Professor Adewole Isaac, the incumbent Health Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but Dr. Akintayo John, the Acting Dean, stood against it, and said because a year before, in 2011 a colleague and now a lawyer, Mr. John Bamgbose in-law to the then Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, and myself benefitted from the University of Ibadan because we presented a paper on Climate Change at a conference in the United kingdom, among other reasons he gave in writing to malign the approving authority. We represented our University and our dear  country, Nigeria.
But because that time around the in-law to the then Dean, Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose was not involved it was a sin for me to apply for scholarship or grant from the University of Ibadan, so I opined. Dr. Akintayo later reported me to the then Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose, when she came back that I was rude to him, and that I said he should act reasonably as to his discretion not to sign my request to the approving authorities. The matter was reported to the then Vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan who waded into the matter, and asked the Faculty of Law to drop any allegation against me, having petitioned him especially via the facebook.
A copy of my reply to Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose to act quickly that I would miss the programme if she did not sign my introduction letter to the Swiss Embassy was sent to the then Minister of Education and she wrote me that she received it. It took the intervention of the then Vice chancellor that I eventually went for the Swiss programme in the Switzerland representing my University and country, Nigeria, at the Kofi Annan’s once-attended institution, Geneva, Switzerland, christened Graduate Institute.
I thought all was over at a time as the then Dean of the Faculty of Law reconstituted another panel to go against the decision of the vice chancellor then, Prof. Adewole Isaac, but all were in futility. The then Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Oluyemisi Bamgbose waited for me at the time to be mobilized for the Nigerian Law School, as I later got to know through the Public Complaints Commission that an adverse report wasmade against me by the then Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Law School gave me admission in 2012 but was withdrawn from its website without any reason. It took longer period before Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose could process my admission and result to the Nigerian Law School, but at that time I called the attention of the Nigerian Law School to an anomaly that they admitted two students, one Opadare and another Chuckwuemeka without complete results from the University of Ibadan, which the authorities of the University of Ibadan and the Nigerian Law School swept it under the carpet till today, and that my admission was been delayed unnecessarily. Rather they ganged up against me, and delayed my admission to the Nigerian Law School for four years.
But in 2014, after I pursued the Law school admission from 2012 to 2013 through the Public Complaints commission, I left the country to volunteer in the Philippines for the typhoon Yolanda victims with an America-based organization, called the All Hands Volunteers ( Hands.org). In the Philippines, I narrated my ordeals to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and sought asylum which partially gave me the opportunity to start my Master’s programme in Public Administration (in view).
In 2015, when a new government was sworn in promising to fight corruption,and ensure good governance, I asked the Philippines asylum/refugee .authorities to allow me go to Nigeria to pursue my Nigerian Law School case, which was accepted. I was in Nigeria in 2015 and I went to the Public Complaints Commission for my somewhat abandoned case. Noteworthy is the fact that in the Nigerian Law School’s response to the Public Complaints Commission, they stated that I would be communicated once the Council of Legal Education was done with my referred case. I love to state that the Nigerian Law School or the Council of legal Education never communicated me, but I went with a lawyer to thePublic Complaints Commission for the outcome of my somewhat abandoned case since 2013 I petitioned.
Hurriedly, the Public Complaints Commission scribbled something in a document calling it outcome of its investigation that I should reapply in 2016, which I did, but I further contested the decision of the Public Complaints Commission at the National Human Rights Commission, but the Human Rights Commission stated that it could not entertain my case because the Public Complaints Commission had decided my case. Along the line, I contacted Bamidele Aturu , of Blessed memory, before travelling out who later demanded that I pay filing fee to sue the Council of Legal Education, but that time I was even living from hand to mouth. Dr. Tahiru Mamman was the Director General of the Nigerian law School then. I already deposed to an affidavit to sue the Council of Legal Education at theFederal High Court in Lagos but to be filed in Abuja being the place of business of the Council of Legal Education.
I left the country in that 2015, when I saw the Nigerian Law School would not be possible that particular year again. I went back to the Philippines continuing my Master’s programme under the asylum programme. I told them in the Philippines that the travail and the victimization still continued somewhat, yet unresolved because I still wanted to sue the Council of Legal Education and possibly others then, while others advised that I should not, and but wait for the 2016 admission period. At a time, I petitioned the United Nations Human Rights Agency over the denial of my law school admission, but yet to receive any response from them.
In June 2016, I was in the Philippines when a friend and confidant messaged me that the authorities of the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan needed my result and other documents for Law School admission. At first, I said that all the Faculty of law needed for my admission should be with them especially in terms of when I graduated and whether I had graduated or not. I discovered that my statement of result duly signed by the Exams Officer in the University was doubted, and I was asked by the person helping me in Nigeria to apply to send more documents, I did and I even sent copy of letter sent to the Solicitors’ Regulatory Authorities (SRA) in the United Kingdom that I am a graduate of the University of Ibadan that the University was processing my certificate.
Fellow Nigerians, I must tell that the incumbent Health Minister, Prof. Adewole Isaac did not release my certificate, and I was even referred to as a student of the University of Ibadan even after I became a graduate. For years, the University of Ibadan kept removing my name, up till now, from the Convocation Book without any reason because I wrote about sufferings of the students on campus in theUniversity of Ibadan when a no-cooking policy was declared by the then Vice Chancellor, Prof. Adewole Isaac, of which it became one of the issues the students of the University of Ibadan agitated for that led to suspension of academic activities and Students’ Union by Prof. Abel Olayinka, the incumbent Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan.
Eventually, I forwarded relevant documents to the Faculty of Law authorities, then I was told that my name and documents had been forwarded to the Nigerian Law School for admission purpose. I came to Nigeria again in October, 2016 after taking leave of absence from my graduate school in the Philippines. But before I left, I discovered another anomaly that name was omitted from the Registration list on the portal of the Nigerian law school. I was advised to go to Abuja to pursue the admission, I got toAbuja law school campus with a just one shirt and a pair of trousers thinking it was something I could resolve soonest but I had to return to Ibadan to pack all my load to return to Abuja, else they would deny me admission again.
Lest I forget, when I first got to the Nigerian Law School, they denied they received any document for my admission from the University of Ibadan, but I quickly showed them the decision of the Public Complaints Commission on my case, then they had no choice but to comply. A letter I wrote to Mr. Lanre Onadeko (SAN) on November 09, 2016 on the anomaly on my admission was never replied up till date, but it was rectified after writing the head of the Information and Communication Unit (ICT), Mr Omoyele, and copying the Secretary to Council of Legal Educationbefore it was rectified, during session, not before the academic session. I  must state that the Nigerian Law School and Council of Legal Education never gave me fair hearing when it received report against me from prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose.
I eventually started admission, and the Council’s communication to me on my admission was given in February 2017 after repeated requests, way long after resumption, for the resumption was in November, 2016, meaning the Council of Legal Education never communicated me on its decision on my law school admission before admission exercise, whereas the Council’s decision had been given since June, 2014. I got to know I would reapply through the Public Complaints Commission in 2015. What was contained in the letter to me by the Council of Legal Education was that I was given a benefit of doubt not ‘’a letter of warning’’ as stated in the law school ‘s statement against me.
I challenge the Nigerian Law school to bring out the polo shirt and inscriptions accused of. As reported by the Punch Newspaper of Monday 24, 2017, a representative of the University said the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) regretted issuing a disclaimer against me. The Nigerian Law School should prove that I had estranged relationship with my colleagues. It is trite that he who asserts or alleges must prove.
The Nigerian Law School or Council of Legal Educaton should provide the iron rod, and necessary convincing evidence to substantiate their allegations. On the issue of letter from the law firm I was, it might interest anyone that for record purpose I have forwarded a voice transcript of how, theperson I complained against at the Equity Law partners, where I was posted, to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) headquarters, she dealt with me insulting me and degradingly.
The Principal Partner, Prof. Akper Peter (SAN) and Managing Partner, Mr. Shankyalu Tersoo were not around at times so the person who signs my log book one day flared up that she would not sign it again, without justifiable reasons. Thus, based on the information on the log book of the Nigerian Law School for attachment, it was written that whenever we have challenges where posted we can report to the NBA chairman or the Nigerian law school for reposting which I did complain to the NBA headquarters. The Nigerian Bar Association headquarters intervened and the vice chairman NBA Abuja Branch, Mr. Oyefeso Tunde was contacted.
I finished the remaining part of my externship with him. My sin was that I reported the partner at the Equity law partners to the NBA when the partner threatened or said she could not sign my log book again which she earlier signed. I reported the issue to a Senior partner at the law firm because the managing partner was not around, and the principal partner was not around too. When I saw that the matter could not be resolved as I was told that the person that threatened not to sign my log book was directly employed by the Principal partner, Peter Akper, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria and that the principal partner told me that the Nigerian Law School had already told them that I was a troublesome person but I said all he must have been told were to defame me as they have always been doing.
Moreover, it is quite sad that the Nigerian law school or the Council of legal education would include a one-sided report against me, without first hearing from me as the externship reports are two sides: one report from the externship employer and the other from me as an intern/extern, then a fair hearing should be given, by comparing both reports. It shows clearly that the Nigerian law school under the directorship of Mr. Lanre Onadeko (SAN), or the Council of Legal Education is indeed biased against me.
Needless for me to respond again to the seat reservation and facility issues since these have been thrashed out in various media, except there is new development worthy of response.


Published on www.lawyard.ng on July 27, 2017.