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What is public lawyering?

Public interest lawyering is a process of legal empowerment aimed at capacity building of everyday people towards using the law and institutions to bring about social change. In public interest lawyering, general people and community takes the lead in an active process while working hand in hand with lawyers.

POSSIBILITY MENTALITY MAKES GIANTS

The eagle doesn't soar to the highest heights by stayinh in the nest. The great potential of the king of the skies is realized when the wings are opened unto greatness. Even the mighty power of the lion is not known until he roars in the jungle and subsequently goes on an attack. Every other animal will know that the king of the jungle is in the vicinity.

Destiny is not a destination, it is a daily agenda. It is a commitment unto something beyond the ordinary. Greatness does not come because you were born into a particular family. The son to a heavyweight champion does not become a champion by virtue of birth. You cannot inherit the worth of a man. If the child of a professor is to be like the parent, he/she must work towards that. It starts in the mind.

Nothing defines destiny like the mentality. The Bible says; "as a man thinks in his heart, so is he." If you think you can, you are right and if you think you can't, you are also right. Failure mentality makes a failure and greatness mentality creates greatness.

Possibility mindset makes giants. Our thoughts either make us or break us. The builders of the Tower of Babel had purposed to build a Tower that would reach heaven. What they had purposed to do was fast becoming a reality because their minds were set.

Moses sent out twelve spies to go and explore the land. Ten of the spies came back with a negative report as they saw themselves as grasshoppers in the eyes of the inhabitants of the land. Caleb and Joshua came back with a positive report and they said; "let us go out and conquer because we are well able." If you see yourself as a grasshopper, you will die as a grasshopper but if you see yourself as a conqueror, then a conqueror you shall be.

There are giants in every man's Promised Land but it takes the courageous mindset like that of Caleb and Joshua to go out with mighty power and possess the land.

Everyone has the ability to soar to the greatest height like an eagle. You can roar within your jungle like a lion and speed within your space like a cheetah. You require a lion's attitude to have a lion's share. You need the eagle's mentality to attain the highest heights. You are not a vulture that feeds on carrion. You are not even a chicken that is satisfied with scratching in the yard. Develop the eagle's mindset. The ceiling above your life can be removed by having the right mindset.

The Apostle Paul says; "be transformed by the renewal of your mind." It is only when we change the way we think that we can change our destiny. It is absolute ignorance and folly to think that you have arrived when you haven't even started.

The world needs the solution you are carrying. Do not deny the world the greatness you have been send to offload. Be driven and propelled by the possibility mentality. You have what it takes only if you accept to change your mentality. The greatest limiting factor to your progress and advancement are your thoughts. The thoughts you allow to dominate your mind determine your destiny.

Watch your thoughts
They become your actions
Watch your actions
They become your habits
Watch your habits
They become your character
Watch your character
It becomes your destiny.

Nigeria does not have specific legislations on noise pollution as is the case in countries like the United States of America and United Kingdom. The relevant policies on noise pollution are: 1) The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (Establishment) Act.
Man is born with noise and dies with that, thus noise is part of human life and a natural product of human environment. Noise like smog, is a slow agent of death. Noise may not appear as a threat to global environment on the same level as deforestation, hazardous wastes or emission of poisonous gases into the atmosphere but if it continued the next 30 years as it has for the last 30 years, it could become lethal. Against this background, this paper examines noise as a factor harmful to the environment with focus on Nigeria. The paper looks at noise pollution in Nigeria and the legal regime relating to the problem. The paper examines how environmental law and other relevant sources of law endeavoured to tackle noise pollution in the country.

Introductions

Noise consists of sound, which is transported by air (Okorodudu-Fubara, 1998). Noise is not inherently harmful to the human or environment.1 It is when noise becomes unusually loud and uncontrolled that it diminishes the quality of air and adversely affects the environment, public health and welfare.2 Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse change, instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organism.3 Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise,4 heat or light.5 Noise pollution is one of the environmental hazards affecting humans as well as climate.6 In most urban areas of the third or developing countries of the world especially Nigeria, there are lots of noise pollutants which include noise from exhaust cars, industrial as well as home generating plants.

Prerogative of Mercy.

Another form of derogation from the practice of death penalty is the effect created by the executive exercise of the prerogative of mercy. The procedure is that where the court pronounces a sentence of death on a convict, the court shall as soon as practicable transmit to the minister or the commissioner designated to advise the President or Governor on the exercise of prerogative of mercy:
(i) A certified copy of the record of proceedings at the trial;
(ii) A copy of a certificate to the effect that sentence of death has been pronounced upon the person named in the certificate; and

{62 Jibril v The State (1969) N.M.L.R. 71. 63 Guobadia v The State (2004) 6 N.W.L.R (pt 869) 360.
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(iii) A report in writing signed by him containing recommendations and
observations (with respect to the convicted person and his trial) that he
thinks fit to make.64
Furthermore, where a person has been sentenced to death and:
(i) Has not appealed within the time prescribed by law; or
(ii) Has unsuccessfully appealed against the conviction; or
(iii) Having filed a notice of appeal has failed to prosecute such appeal,
the minister or commissioner, as the case may be, shall consider the report made by the trial
court in respect of the convicted person. Such a minister or commissioner who is usually the
Attorney-General refers the report to the body responsible for exercising the prerogative of
mercy. Based on their report, the Attorney-General may recommend to the President or
Governor that:
(i) The Convicted person be pardoned.
(ii) The Sentence be commuted to life imprisonment; or
(iii) The sentence is commuted to any specific period.
Otherwise the Attorney-General may recommend that the
sentence be executed.65
It is also ad rem to note that the establishment of the Council on the Prerogative of Mercy is a
function of law. Thus, pursuant to section 175 (2) of the 1999 Constitution, the Federal Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy is the Council of State.
The same Constitution at section 212 (2) empowers the States of the Federation to establish its own advisory council. In Okeke v
The State,66 the Supreme Court, in refusing an application for mercy held that the
recommendation of mercy for convicted persons is a matter within the province of the
Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, and that it is to that body that a convicted person, if he so desires, may direct his application for consideration.
It goes without saying that in these two ways of derogating from facing the death penalty, one is different from the other. While the case of exemption forbids the court from even pronouncing

{64 Section 371 C.P.A & Section 294 (1) C.P.C.
65 Section 371 (e) & (f) C.P.A & Section 295 & 296 C.P.C.
66 (2003) 15 NWLR (pt 842) 25.}
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death sentence ab initio after conviction, the question of prerogative of mercy is a technique of granting pardon after the convict had already been sentenced to death.