LBN# WHY YOU ALSO NEED A LAWYER IN YOUR LIFE.

I know most people, especially in this part of the world have an impression that the only time the services of a lawyer is required is when there is a problem or dispute. To some people, the word lawyer is synonimous with trouble. I have met some people to whom I was introduced to as a lawyer and the remark I get almost instantly is that "they can now go and look for trouble".

Most of you reading especially from Nigeria may clearly understand what I am saying. This impression is however a wrong one to the extent that lawyers are not only needed when there is trouble. As a matter of fact, if the services of a lawyer is engaged before transactions are sealed or before negotiations are commenced, we would have less conflicts in our society today. The last assertion is however with the exception to criminal matters.

There would be an increased level of integrity among people because there would exist this consciousness ttat people are aware of their rights as human beings, as citizens and as business persons.

Just the way most of us have specific hospitals or dictors that we run to when we or any of our family members feel sick. Most of us refer to our banking officer when we have financial transactions to do. Most importantly, when it comes to our spiritual life, we have our pastor that we run to. Shokingly, in all the above memtioned relationships, there is a legal side to it all. When you go to see your doctor, there is legal side to it  when you open an account with a bank, there is a legal side to it. When you are building your house, their is legal side to it. When you walk into a supermarket to buy an item or do your shoppings, there is a legal side to it. Most importantly, when you enter into a business transaction, there is a legal side to all of it.

Unfortunately, most people, especially Nigerians only run to a lawyer when they are in trouble or that transaction has failed or they have been cheated. A complete case of medicine after death. Constantly consulting a lawyer before any financial or business endeavour, is very important for success.

A lawyer is like a close confidant. There is what we call lawyer and client confidentiallity which is an ethical aspect of the legal profession and lawyers do not take it forgranted. So you don't have to ask that question.

Start talking to a lawyer today before it gets too late.

Stay tuned for more daily legal tips.

Written by:
Cyril Okpogoro Esq.
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"The world has heard..Stop the unnecessary #BringBackOurGirls protests"-Dencia

 After the intense social media campaign to rescue the abducted girls, the world has taken notice and are now working on rescuing the girls.However, more protests are still taking place.Another is set to take place tomorrow in Lagos .
Dencia feels the protests are enough and the focus should be on what next after the girls are rescued .She aired her thoughts on her IG page...For those asking what she has done to contribute,she said she was the one who tweeted at the American celebrities to tweet about the abducted girls..

Hrs wasted !!Go 2 work and give $$ to a foundation that can help these girls when they return because they will need a lot of help psychologically,mentally,emotionally and physically !!Merci."

Dencia has spoken.Who agrees ...
More below

Dr Dre celebrates being Hiphop's first Billionaire as Apple set to buy Beats earphones for $3.2billion

Dr Dre is set to become Hiphop's richest as Apple is offering $3.2 billion to buy Beats Electronics Beats Electronics,which is famous for the popular Beat by Dre headphones. The company was founded by Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine.
He is already celebrating the move which will soar his worth from $500 million to a billionaire.In the video where he celebrates with Tyrese who said...

The Forbes list just changed! It came out like two weeks ago. They need to update the Forbes list. Sh-t just changed!

Dre replied..

"  The first billionaire of Hip-Hop. Right here, from mudafuck** west coast "

Hiphop's richest 2014 
Diddy-$700 million
Dr Dre-$550
Jayz-$520 million
Birdman-$300
50cent- $100 million

Omotola Ekeinde's kids visit Sound Sultan's studio

That's Omotola Ekeinde's first daughter, Princess and first son!
Their mum took them to Sound Sultan's Ninja Temple studio today to work on some beats....
Omotola says 'Captain E (the boy) now has over 20 beats. He is now the youngestproducer in Africa for samples checkhttp://www.hulkshare.com/captaine...My lovely kids are all grown up".

Monica Lewinsky reacts to Beyoncé’s lyric

Well this is awkward!

Monica Lewinsky has re-acted to Beyoncé’s reference to her in the singer’s Partitionsong. 

"He Monica Lewinsky'd all on my gown," Beyonce seductively sings in her hit song. But how does the woman behind the provocative lyric feel about being a line in one of Mrs. Carter's songs?

The lyric is, of course, in regards to Lewinsky's affair with President Bill Clinton when he was in office and she was a White House intern. 

“Thanks, Beyonce, but if we're verbing, I think you meant 'Bill Clinton'd all on my gown,' not 'Monica Lewinsky'd,'” the 40-year-old told Vanity Fair magazine. 

Watch the video here: (Warning: NSFW)

Kim and Kanye can't get married just yet

 Kim Kardashian and Kanye West can't marry until they finalise their pre-nuptial agreement.

The couple were rumoured to have tied the knot in a secret ceremony at the weekend as their planned Paris nuptials later this month won't be legally binding, but insiders say they haven't yet got their documentation in order to carry out the official ceremony yet.

Kim and Kanye - who have 10-month-old daughter North together - are not set to sign the pre-nup until some time next week, but insiders told TMZ the delays are not because they can't agree on how to divide their assets in the event their marriage dissolves, but because there is so much to sort out.

And the paperwork is particularly complicated because the Bound 2 rapper recently changed management teams.

Kim recently slammed claims she and Kanye have already married, and also revealed that, unlike her doomed union with Kris Humphries - who she was married to for just 72 days in 2011 - the ceremony won't be shown on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

She tweeted: "Seeing so many different reports not gonna start disputing them all but a few I want to straighten out...

"1. We are not married yet!

"2. We are not filming our wedding for Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

"You will see everything leading up til and after!

"As much as we would love to share these memories on camera, we've decided to keep this close to our heart & share thru photos

"3. No guest list has been released. Seeing fake ones. Especially not 1600 people invited like I just read. Its VERY small & intimate (sic)".

It is believed the loved-up duo will be forced to legally wed in California before their romantic bash in Paris as French law requires a strict 40-day residency before they can get married in the country.

DR Sid built N110 million house on mortgage

Singer DR Sid has revealed that the N110 million house he currently lives in was built on mortgage, according to Linda Ikeji’s blog.

DR Sid, who was not ashamed to make the revelation, also said he pays a mortgage of N1 million every month.

He is set to build another house and said he will pay his mortgage for the next 25 years.

Flying Eagles shop for new boots in Tanzania

Flying Eagles went shopping for new boots ahead of the 2015 African Youth Championship qualifier against Tanzania on Sunday.
It has been raining for the past week in Dar es Salaam, but weather forecasts suggest it would be sunny on match day at the National Stadium.

But, so as not to take a risk, the team went shopping for new boots in readiness for any situation that may turn out on Sunday.

“The pitch is okay but should it rain, we would need to play with hard-stud boots,” said Kelechi Iheanacho, who led several other players like Izu Omego and Joshua Enaholo to shop for new boots Friday morning.

The return leg of the tie will be played in Nigeria.

Boko Haram bombs bridge linking Nigeria, Chad

Members of the Boko Haram have detonated an explosive that destroyed a highway bridge linking Nigeria and Chad, security sources and witnesses said.‬
‪Hundreds of heavy duty trucks plying the Chad-Nigeria highway along Gamboru-Ngala Local Government conveying commodities from the two countries are now left stranded on either sides of the bridge.‬
‪Though residents say small passenger cars could still make it to either sides as the frames of the old bridge are left hanging in bad shape, traders lament the economic loss they stand to suffer not being able to transport their wares in the nearest future.‬
‪”The Boko-Haram is gradually caging us if, the bridge is the only one that links Gamboru from the other side of Borno and Nigeria as a whole; it has been destroyed. We are in trouble,” said a trader whose shop was completely burnt during the Monday attack on Gamboru that left over 100 people dead.‬
‪An official of the Department of State Security, SSS, in Maiduguri who confirmed the incident said “only small cars can risk crossing over the bridge; any truck or heavily loaded vehicle would definitely go down”.‬
‪The officer who spoke off the record said the bridge was bombed on Monday when the Boko Haram gunmen were retreating from their attack on Gamboru Town.‬
‪”The bridge is located between Gamboru and Logomani villages; the bomb has seriously damaged it; they detonated it on the bridge when they were retreating from Gamboru town as a reinforcement of our troops engaged them in shoot out”.‬
‪Traders whose wares are now trapped on the sides of the bridge now pay more for small vehicles to help them get their wares off the heavy trucks, and across the bridge.‬
‪”It is not only very expensive,  but not every driver would want to spend an hour there because the Boko-Haram gunmen might strike any time in that desert route,” Bukar Awa’ana, a trader said.‬
‪He noted that even before the destruction of the bridge,  trade merchants had lost millions of naira as a result of attacks on commodity trucks.‬
‪”The roads are in bad shape and trucks have to drive very slowly for days to get into Nigeria or out to Chad, and in the process, they suffer serious attacks, our drivers are often killed and the vehicles burft with the goods in most cases”, lamented Mr. Awa’ana who travels between Nigeria and Chad for his business.