- Solomon Dalung was turned back at the Supreme Court event
- The minister got to the programme late
- He admitted that it was his fault for being turned back
Solomon Dalung who is the minister of youths and sport was shut out an event going on at the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Premium Times reports that the programme was for the swearing in of a new set of Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Monday, September 18.
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It was reported that Dalung who is a lawyer himself was shut out of the programme commemorating a new legal year after he arrived around 10.am.
Security officials kept out those who arrived late for the event including the minister who said he has himself to blame for the incident.
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He said: “The programme has started and people are trying to say I am this or I am that but we are all lawyers, we know that once the CJN has sat down you cannot enter. You can only plead but you cannot show you are somebody here.”
NAIJ.com had reported that fhe federal government will swear in 29 of the 30 lawyers nominated as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN).
Premium Times reports that the lawyers to be sworn in will exclude one of the nominees, Oluwatoyin Bashorun, over a petition against her.
Bashorun is currently being investigated over allegation against her conduct.
You can watch this NAIJ.com video of Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer speaking on military exercise in Umuahia:
Source: Naij.com
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Monday, 18 September 2017