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The Certified True Copy of the judgement of the FHC in the case of Hon. Nafiu Bala v.ADC &Ors is now ready. I promised to share it with those who asked once I get it. Download the judgement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1MsU… Please share for others to read and learn. Thank you.

**BANKING LAW: Vicarious Liability for an Employee’s Misconduct** In *U.B.A. v. OLATUNJI & ANOR* (2026) LPELR-86637(CA), the Court of Appeal considered whether a bank could be held vicariously liable where its relationship manager diverted a customer’s ₦71.6 million investment.

If your final written address is crossing 25 pages, warn yourself that you may be straying and going off point.

My Oga told us that he didn’t say “I refuse to answer that question in the rudest manner”. What he said was that “I refuse to answer an irrelevant question”😀

For Nigerian lawyers who have qualified and are litigating in foreign jurisdictions, I have a question: 'Please is it the practice over there to hear utterances from the bench such as: 1. "what sort of rubbish motion is this?" 2. "what sort of stupid application is this?" 3. "Are you crazy?" 🤯🤯 4. "You are 4 years post call right? Please restrict yourself to the magistrate court. When you have clocked 5 years, you can come here."

This is shamefully inexcusable. An impossibility for several reasons: 1. Nolle cannot come after conviction. 2. The AG will never saunter into court unrobed. 3. The AG has no right to address court as such. Nollywood stop misleading people! Asserting fair use btw. As received.

See the case of Nasiru Bello v Attorney General, AG of Oyo State, (1986) 5 NWLR 828

How do you do this when you have not read the content of the judgment?

May I add that if you're not a very determined and strong-willed person, the requirements a person is expected to meet before one can sue a disco is very daunting. I am almost certain that for every 10 matters that would have ended in court against them, 7 were left to God by those affected because of the procedures. Out of the remaining 3, maybe one enjoys actual trial. P.O kills the other 2. I was digging through one time. I came across a judgement. A learned Silk sued a disco and the P.O that killed his suit was to the effect that he didn't approach Forum before approaching the court. About 4 steps, with each coming with needless bottlenecks that sap your resources. And this is another issue with Nigeria. An entity could have a DG on its website as the head and you address a letter to that DG. Ms Akande at the front desk would have a perfunctory glance at your letter and assert: "We cannot take this letter. Address it to Chairman. He is Chairman not DG." You change it to Chairman and return 2 weeks later to be told that he is no longer addressed as the Chairman, but the President. Interestingly, matters of such nature interest me so much. It piques my curiosity and I want to know exactly how it will end. The area manager of an entity once abused power in my estate. The estate said we should leave her to God, I said God has asked me to handle it. I wrote to her, demanding unreserved apology and undertaking not to attempt such in my estate again. She ignored my letter. I took it to the next authority. They transferred her from my area to another. I wrote another letter and said: "No. Transfer doesn't solve it. She must apologise and undertake never to try such again, or else I will stress your system". The entity sent a 3-man delegate to my house on a Saturday morning. My letter promised hell first thing on Monday. They admitted that they didn't want to wait till Monday. They were polite. Their head of legal was steaming side glances at me. I knew why and they admitted it later. "You look too gentle for that letter". After their apologies and good words, we shook hand and while they were leaving, I repeated: "The former area manager must write a letter of apology and undertake never to try such in this estate again". She did. To survive in Nigeria, you must be a man or woman or steel. You must carry a scorpion-like tail and anyone who tramples on you or your right must get an offence-appropriate dosage. In Abuja for instance, there's one of the platforms where the person meant to receive your complaint acts with reckless abandon and uses her discretion to determine which petition would be received and which would not be.

I see, but this affects the judgment one way or another because there must be a reason why the Court is convinced by evaluation done by a party to a suit.

I am reading a Court of Appeal judgment in which 29 of its 33 pages recount the parties’ submissions. When the court finally speaks for itself, there is barely any independent analysis. It agrees with the trial court without adequately explaining why. Reproducing arguments is not resolving them. An appellate court must confront the alleged errors, weigh the competing arguments and explain why the decision below should stand or fall. Judges must do the hard work of reasoning through their judgments. The parties have already written the submissions. What they need from the court is a reasoned decision.

“Oloruko Aperire Jesu o” Whose idea or inspiration was this song? The song absolutely tore up my night schedule. 😭