Written by Femi Falana Monday, 22 February 2010 12:59
Introduction: I thank the entire staff and students of the Faculty of Law, Adekunle Ajasin University for inviting me to be the Guest Speaker at the 10th Anniversary Lecture of the Faculty. I am indebted to the Dean, Professor Yemi Akinseye- George for the indulgence to address this distinguished audience on Appraising the Role of the Legal Profession in creating an ideal Democratic Society. In view of the controversy surrounding the resolution of the National Assembly which made the Vice President the Acting President I intend to address the intervention of lawyers in the resolution of the programmed constitutional confusion that we are currently witnessing in the country.
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When you strip Nigeria of all its borrowed and illusive attires, what will be left is a wretched half-child-half-man nation on the verge of implosion. Nigerians and the rest of the world are beginning to ask themselves serious questions in the wake of a Nigerian man’s attempt at bombing an American airline over Detroit on Christmas day.
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