By: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed From the historical lineage, most (if not all) laws of our dear Nigeria is traceable to Britain as a result of her colonial legacy according to Sampson Obeng when going through the memory lane in his book, “Introduction To The Nigerian Legal System”. Hence the whole gamut of written documents that made up of our codified constitution are full to the brim with archaic jargons. It is not amazing when new wigs perchance with his first appearance in the temple of justice bamboozles his learned counsel who might have spent a decade in practice. A no…
Author: Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed
A vibrant Nigerian legal pundit Dele Farotimi, in his book entitled “The Imperatives of the Nigerian Revolution”, writes that: “The Nigeria ‘ruining crass’ does not live in the country that they have ruined. They cream the land for their all-right living, but they do not live in Nigeria. Their homes are in the Gulf Arab states, on the Potomac in Washington DC; they live in Dubai, London, Monaco; some live in Niamey, others in Niger… Their children, rarely ever born in Nigeria, do not go to schools in Nigeria, and where they do, it would mostly be the elementary schools.…
