Our Rights

Do you know as a woman that you deserve a right to your Father's property?

In December 1961, Lazarus Ogbonnaga Ukeje died intestate with real property in Lagos State. The appellants are his wife Mrs. Lois Chituru Ukeje and her son, Mr. Enyinnaya Lazarus Ukeje, both of whom obtained Letters of Administration for and over the deceased’s Estate. The plaintiff/respondent is the daughter of the deceased and brought this suit seeking a declaration from the court that as the daughter of the deceased she is entitled to a share of his estate.

The Supreme Court upheld as inviolate the finding by the lower courts that that Igbo customary law which disentitles a female from inheriting the property of the deceased father is void as it conflicts with the fundamental right to freedom from discrimination set out in section 42(1)(a) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution(link is external). Based on a textual interpretation of the Constitution, the Court further clarified that no matter the circumstances of the birth of a female child, such a child is entitled to an inheritance from her late father's estate. This would indicate that it does not matter whether the female child is born out of wedlock.

I do not want to care how bad your action hurts me, I do not want to remember how sting your attitude has become nor how I cared, pampered and sacrificed for you. All I know is that as we are parting ways, all that we shared together as jolly good fellows is buried inside of me, nothing on earth would ever bring those your dirty linens you shared with me to the public, it is not about your image, no, it is about whom I am and my values.

The rate at which friends, marriages, businesses and relationships are handled by this generation is something to worry much about. People meets cordially, became friends and shared information mostly without prejudice and keep enjoying each others company sooner than later, boom...! It has happened that one has hurt the other in a termed unforgivable way, therefore social media would be filled with all the dirtiness of the other, as a saint you have always been. Mostly those with filthiness of character are the ones to start throwing tantrums from social media.

Now listen and have peace of mind. Social media is not a place to play hide and seek game, to settle scores nor to destroy peoples reputations. Social media is a place of networking, marketing of businesses and making money. So the acts of abusing each other on social media has become another avenue for litigations on which damages is expected. Don't just get mad when you're abused on social media, just identity the fellow and get your lawyer.

I have watched with keen interest on the certificate saga lingering between "the people's General" (Buhari) and the Peoples democratic party. After many research on the issue, i came to discover that the INEC, with the power invested on them by the electoral act 2010 as amended section 31(1), requested all the Political parties that wish to sponsor any candidate for the 2015 general election to submit to the electoral body Form CF001 and Form CF002. CF001 contains the personal information and the credentials of that preferred candidate of the party, while Form CF002 contains the list of all the people that the political party is sponsoring in 2015 elections. So the people's general submitted his form CF001 without any of his credentials, rather with an affidavit stating that all his credentials are with the Nigerian Military. Now his opponents looking for a loop hole to use against him moves with swift action inquest of the true nature of his credentials and discover that non is with the military and went on air shouting fowl, telling us that the peoples general rose to the rank of a general in the Nigerian army without any credentials...! How truth can this be? I waited patiently till the Nigerian army in a press statement state it clear that the people's general was admitted into the army school and he rose to the rank of a general with just a recommendation letter from his principal stating that he believes he would pass the Cambridge/wasc exams. Nigeria we hail thee! The truth of this matter is that all of them in search of this information and those in the defense, are all bunch of rogues and criminals for not being able to push for such a serious issue like this in all the previous elections but now, while the people's general (Buhari) should be well addressed as the most corrupt person in the country who has benefited in unmerited manner knowing well that he has no credentials to that effect. It means that he has never pass any scrutiny in all the offices he has occupied in the country. That is the level Nigeria degenerated to, that he has never for any day make effort to get his credentials because he is the people's general and his newly found friend whom he once labelled as the most corrupt individual in Nigeria (Obasanjo) have told us that once a general, always a general, that after all Goodluck did not finish his PHD programme!! Shame on Nigeria and all the supporters of evil and all those that are still writing in the defense of these evil genius in Nigeria. But surely, Nigeria must be free one day!!!