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Mr. President, Do Not Run

By
Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Mr. President, I sent an email to you on March 21 2015 that I was making it home to ensure that General Buhari was not elected. In my thesis, I had noted that Mr. Buhari was not intellectually capable of leading a nation. He was hopelessly incapable of comprehending complex things in friendly interviews!  Within minutes, you responded.

But as the Federal High Court, on Friday, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, rules that you can run for president in 2023, I want to tell you loud and clear – DO NOT RUN. Nigeria does not need you again.

What I suggest, publicly, is that you find one of the emerging leaders and mentor him or her. The Nigeria you left in 2015 is not the nation we have today. And the leader we need to fix that 2023 Nigeria is different. I am your #1 fan but on this one, do not do it. Like I made my case against General Buhari, even you cannot save Nigeria at this point.

The greatest challenge today is to get the youth to believe in Nigeria. They are fighting economic warfares, hopelessly. Your position is to build a ladder to get a new type of leader, in any party, to restore the nation and get them to believe.

As always, all respect to you. Do not run; you did not leave any bag in Aso Rock. Work to build for the future. God bless you, God bless President Buhari, and President Obasanjo, as three of you come together, and leave politics aside and work for the future of this nation. This is that moment because many things are fading daily!

The Federal High Court, on Friday, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said former President Goodluck Jonathan can run for president in 2023.

The judge, Isa Dashen, while delivering a judgement, on Friday, held that Mr Jonathan’s right to vie for the presidency a second time cannot be stopped by any retroactive law.

There have been intense political debates over Mr Jonathan’s eligibility to run for the presidency a second time, after he was defeated at the polls in 2015 by the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, when Mr Jonathan sought to be reelected.

Joining the debate in April, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, said the former president cannot contest in the 2023 presidential election, citing constitutional provisions barring the ex-president from seeking re-election.

Mr Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said in a statement in response to growing calls on Mr Jonathan to throw his hat into the ring ahead of the 2023 election.

He said Mr Jonathan, who was Nigerian president between 2010 and 2015, would breach constitutional term limits of two terms of eight years if he runs for the presidency and wins again.

Mr Falana recalled that Mr Jonathan became the President of Nigeria in 2010 following the sudden death of President Umaru Yar’adua, and later contested and won the 2011 presidential election.

Tekedia Unveils “Tekedia Corporate Town Hall and Consultancy”; CollegeBoost Graduation, Economy Webinar

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Tekedia Institute unveils a new program: “Tekedia Town Hall and Consultancy with Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe“. It is a live program which takes place on Zoom. It focuses on business strategies, mechanisms, models, frameworks, etc, which companies of all sizes can deploy to win new markets and territories.

Like the ancestral town halls, it is designed to be unit-, department- or company-wide with Prof Ekekwe as a guest. The overriding objective is to provide a platform where companies can get insights from an external thought-leader, helping them to refine, upgrade and execute their missions better.

Indeed, as the global economy is being rattled and redesigned due to many factors, this program will help your organization deepen capabilities to survive and thrive, despite any economic upheaval. We have developed playbooks and protocols which your team will find useful in your operations.

The program will run for three hours on Zoom. Prof Ekekwe will make a presentation for 60 minutes with specific focus on the client’s sector. The subsequent minutes will be for Questions/Answers and interactive engagements with the participants. We expect the conversations to focus on the frictions and wins the company is experiencing. Tekedia Institute will provide perspectives, drawing from our practical industry and academic experiences.

To learn more and register your company, go here and pay N450,000 naira (or US$1,000). Once done, our team will send you a calendar to pick a time for the session.

Events: Tekedia has the following events scheduled:

Topic: Business and Personal Economy Scenario Mapping During Economic Upheaval

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OSUN 2022: As parties continue to communicate possible physical attack-driven messages, PAN calls for hands-on media literacy training

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Mutiu Iyanda
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As the electorate in Osun State elect a governor in less than two months, the Positive Agenda Nigeria (PAN) had called on political parties, especially the APC and the PDP, to sensitise their supporters and social media handlers on media literacy skills so as to manage the rate of online personality attacks and potential physical attacks.

This admonition was premised on the new findings (week three) the organisation made as part of her ongoing Osun 2022 Election Campaign Monitoring.

“The online and offline trajectories of the campaign activities of the two leading political parties in the governorship election raise some concerns which should be addressed by the parties, the electoral umpire, and other stakeholders. That over 63% of 119 traces of attacks as a strategy discovered for the three weeks were found on pages of political parties’ supporters and groups is an indication that the political parties need to work with their members and supporters to prevent further escalation of online attacks into the physical space. That campaign buses and posters were destroyed also shows lack of tolerance which can degenerate into more dangerous attacks if not controlled,” PAN emphasised.

PAN also reiterated the need for political parties in the state to use the opportunities provided by different communication platforms, both online and offline, to strengthen their parties’ programmes and policies as well as market the candidacy of their standard bearers instead of expending greater energy in disparaging their opponents’ personalities. The non-partisan organisation stated:

“Political campaigns should be opportunities for presenting manifestoes and convincing the electorate about parties’ programmes and projects, and not for discussing the competencies and maligning personal attributes of political opponents. This report shows that beyond their political differences, the two leading political parties united to condemn the physical attacks that occurred during the ruling party’s campaign activities in a town in the state. This is an act that should be reinforced for parties involved in the election to successfully achieve their campaign objectives.”

The organisation equally called on parties and their candidates to desist from vote buying in whatever forms, and ensure that their campaign speeches are policy-engaged.

Because the campaign activities are getting hotter in the physical settings, Dr Oyedele Joseph Obasanjo, a member of the study team and lecturer at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti in Ekiti State, reiterates that concerned stakeholders should examine practical lessons from the week three report. He was referring to the violent attacks that occurred in the state’s Ayedaade Local Government when one of the candidates held a campaign rally in Gbongan, one of the local government’s towns. “It’s clear from previous reports and this one that political parties need to train their social media handlers, particularly those in charge of Facebook and Twitter, on how to engage voters without bringing in personality issues, identify issues and needs in critical sectors and industries for robust policy engagement rather than personality disparagement,” Dr Oyedele stresses.

It would be recalled that PAN has 69 days to monitor the election campaign environment in Osun before the July 16th Governorship Election.

The eport is available here

Attorney-Client Privilege: The Rule of confidentiality

By
Stanley Alieke
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Attorney-client privilege: Whatever you tell your lawyer is completely confidential.

Do you know that your lawyer is under a strong obligation not to divulge or leak any confidential information or anything at all you told him as a client? This is called the Attorney-Client Privilege and it is also regarded as the rule of confidentiality under the Rules of professional conduct for legal practitioners.

The attorney-client privilege is a rule that protects the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and clients. Under this rule, an attorney or a lawyer (as we preferably called in Nigeria) cannot divulge his clients’ secrets or any confidential information confided in him by the client to a third party.

This rule was provided for in clause 19 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners in Nigeria and it states thus:

  1. —– (1) all oral or written communications made by a client to his lawyer in the normal course of professional employment are privileged.

19(1a) a lawyer shall not reveal a confidence or secret of his client.

This is not just a rule for legal practitioners in Nigeria, it is a global rule which any lawyer or legal practitioner in any legal jurisdiction of the world is expected to uphold.

This rule was made in order to protect clients’ secrets because, at the cause of a professional relationship between a lawyer and client, a client is expected to tell the lawyer everything or expose some confidential information to the lawyer. So assuring the confidentiality of that information, the privilege rule encourages clients to make “full and frank” disclosures to their attorney, who are then better armed and fully  able to provide candid advice and effective representation to the client.

Therefore, by the purport of the Attorney-client privilege or the rule of confidentiality, Whatever you tell your lawyer is completely and entirely confidential.

If by any means, what you told your lawyer or any information you confided with your lawyer leaked to the press or to the next person you can sue your lawyer for breach of confidentiality or the breach of attorney-client privilege.

Nigeria Set To Train Workers On E-Government Initiative

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Fred Nwaozor
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The Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria in partnership with the Korean government has disclosed its tech plan targeted to train over 200,000 civil servants on the e-Government initiative within the next five years to fast-track the migration to paperless government by 2030.

Already, about 1400 civil servants had reportedly been trained under the first phase of the project.

Speaking at the flag-off of the Project for Building Foundations towards Digital Governance in Nigeria (2021-2026), the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami observed that the Ministry in August 2021, signed the agreement with the Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for the implementation of Phase 2 of the e-Government development for Nigeria.

He stated that Phase 2 of the e-Government development project was developed to enhance capacity for the execution of the e-Government Master Plan with consulting services to the Presidential Council on e-Government.

The project also seeks to expand the delivery of government digital services through the enhancement of the services portal to create increased access to National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment.

Pantami, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, William Alo, would among others, create increased access to NIN enrolment for ordinary people across the Nigerian State.

He explained that the first phase of the project for the e-Government development in Nigeria commenced in 2013 with the support of KOICA as part of bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and the government of the Republic of Korea, during which the e-Government master plan that would guide the adoption and implementation of the e-Governance programme in the country, was approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in August 2019.

Pantami noted that the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, under the first phase, embarked on the process of developing policies, frameworks and strategies for robust implementation of e-Governance initiatives in federal government institutions and the country at large.

The minister further notified that in order to attain the goals of the project, the Ministry facilitated the President’s approval for the Presidential Council for Digital Economy and e-Government to serve as a high-level body towards the attainment of the Digital Economy Agenda and the implementation of the Government Digital Strategies.

According to him, the project, which would be funded by the KOICA’s grant, was expected to enhance capacity for the further execution of key initiatives of the National e-Government Master Plan, competencies for the e-Government service delivery, and the development of the Government Service Portal.

Speaking at the event, the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Kim YoungChae noted that the project signified the friendly and thriving bilateral relations between the Nigerian Government and the Korean Government which had existed for over 40 years.

He observed that Korea’s success in e-Government development was portrayed as one of the world’s best success stories, adding there were many aspects of unique Korean experiences that could be adapted to suit other partner countries.

The envoy noted the continued partnership in this field between Nigeria and Korea had provided an active platform for both countries to collaborate and make the most of the experiences Korea had thus far gone through.

On his part, the Programme Director of the KOICA, Nigeria Division, Hung Kook-Park, said Korea was hoping that by 2026 Nigeria should have moved from the 140th position in the e-government ranking to be among the first 100.

“Currently Nigeria is ranked 140 in the world’s e-Government index ranking but we want Nigeria to be below 100 by the year 2026.” The professor disclosed.

This kind of initiative, which deserves sustenance, ought to be given the actual support it requires to excel. Taking into cognizance that the world is gradually leaving the manual pattern behind, any country that truly needs to grow shouldn’t be informed or reminded of the compelling need to fully key into the digital pattern.

In view of this, the government is expected to expedite actions towards ensuring the lofty initiative isn’t only taken to the peak level, but becomes a thorough indigenous affair without involving collaboration of any foreign expertise.

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