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Good Morning Colleagues, My name is ‘Tosin Ajose Popoola, I practice in Ibadan, Oyo State of Nigeria and my focus areas are Commercial Litigation, Family Law and Employment Law. I’m passionate about litigation. In summary I’m a Court Girl. I have titled today’s session 👉"Defining and Treading Your Path Timeously and Diligently” In recent times, I have referred to myself as a content creator and I have adopted a lot of techniques in creating my contents, one of those techniques is storytelling, so permit me to tell a short story. I was called to the bar in November, 2012. After the call, I was clueless, I didn’t know what I wanted out of the profession or where I wanted to go. I just wanted to be a successful lawyer! At my father’s instance I started a career in litigation, while in the PATH of litigation, I found the job interesting but not financially rewarding. In a quest for “something” more financially rewarding, I started my Masters’ Program. Few months into the Mas...

Today is Valentine! Sending loads of Love and Light your way!💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓 Today, we are sharing Lessons from the Okada Ban and same will run for the next couple of weeks. Not to worry! We will conclude our Investing Right series in due course, we’ve got you. Due Diligence: The Journey of a Business Man A.K.A. Lessons from the Okada Ban🏍🚵 Entrepreneurs and StartUp Founders, let’s go🏃 on a journey, there are lessons to be learnt. Remember the Okada ban in Lagos State, of course you remember, after all, it happened few days ago.  Let me shock you on this journey. Okada had in fact been banned as far back as year 2018. Yes! I am not drunk! So, in year 2018 the Lagos State Government passed a law titled Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law, 2018. Section 46 thereof prohibits the operations of Motorcycles i.e. Okada of 200cc engine capacity on major highways within Lagos State. (of course with some exceptions) The subsistence of thi...

Hey People! It’s the Season of Love😍😍 and we are accordingly moving with the Season. This morning, we bring you a 👑Gift: Gift of Love: Deed of Gift. What is a Gift? A Gift is the absolute transfer of one’s right over a property to another for emotional consideration, such as, love affection etc. This is it, remember that if you intend to sell ehmm…let’s take a plot of land for example, you may elect to sell to Ms. Buyer who pays XYZ amount. The XYZ amount is the consideration. Whereas where a Gift is made, no money or tangible resources is paid by the person receiving it. Let me make my point clearer with the use of life examples: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Mr. Responsible African, is a polygamist with 4 (four) wives, these 4 (four) wives jointly have 10 (ten) children. Mr. Responsible African equally has a longtime girlfriend who has 2 (two) children ...

Mini-Law-Series Partnership: Investing Right (1) Good Morning Friends, It’s the dawn of a new day. In furtherance of our passion to add value using the instruments of law, we have created a platform for direct chat with members of the Online Law Clinic, kindly send a WhatsApp message to 08150949947 Partnership is simply a marriage union of business. A party may bring the idea, while the other party provides funds for the execution of these ideas and so on and so forth. For a Partnership to thrive and survive, it is essential that the intending partners agree on the key terms of the Partnership and these terms reduced into writing. Please let’s remember that we had earlier, on this platform stated that an oral contract is not less of a contract but it is prudent to have a written contract as the intentions of parties can be clearly seen and accordingly interpreted by the Court where there is a dispute of any form. There are so many factors to be considered where parties inte...