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THEOPHILUS Adekunle Oyesanya is a lawyer with a difference. His love and commitment to the wig profession knows no bounds.  Vivacious and charming, the learned Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is one of the outstanding senior Nigerian lawyers who are worried about the dwindling legal practice in the country.

Not only is he worried, he is passionate about improving the system and ensuring that the glory of the once-revered profession is restored. He believes that for that to be accomplished, senior lawyers have the responsibility of admitting more junior lawyers in chambers and tutoring them on the rudiments of the profession, instead of leaving them as half-baked law graduates who continue to commit all sorts of professional misconduct.

“I am very concerned about the decline. Those of us in practice are victims of these developments and that decline has been so in last 10 to 15 years. And it is getting worse. I think it goes back to the entire educational system of the country because in a situation where people cheat to pass examinations even in secondary school, cheat their way through to the university and finally find themselves in the Law School, what do you expect?

Source: The Guardian Nigeria

by Point Park News Service

He can still recall how he and a friend were stopped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square by a man demanding their identification and an answer to why they were out that day.

Gaworski said they responded simply: “To be part of this revolution…this is something that people are going to be talking about for generations, and to be part of it is such an honor.”

The 20-year-old from Clinton, Pa., said the Egyptian official smiled and said: “Well, welcome to Egypt!”

When the college student first decided to study abroad in Egypt, he said he thought it would be a safer environment than his original choice of Tunisia – only to find himself caught up in the midst of a revolution.

From Gettysburg to Cairo Gaworski is a political science and international affairs major at Gettysburg College. He and fellow Americans made plans to spend the semester studying at American University in Cairo.

When they arrived during Ramadan, Gaworski said the tension was minimal as people chose to focus on religion over politics. But once the high holiday ended, things began to heat up: People began congregating in Tahrir Square and protests became a regular occurrence....

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