Ifelaw Partners Tokunbo Orimobi on Life After School Series

The Law Students' Society Obafemi  Awolowo  University is a Student body known to be committed  to the overall welfare  of her members.
IFELAW  as it's  fondly  called has over the years  been a pacesetter among  other sister faculties  through her value oriented  events.

It  is in this same bend that the  leadership of the  Society has deemed it fit to co-host "Life After School Series" with the renowned  TOKUNBO ORIMOBI.

Tokunbo Orimobi is an international legal practice with offices in Abuja, Ibadan, Lagos, London, Mauritius, New York and Pretoria. A legal firm which can boast of  competent and adept lawyers with expertise and experience in Nigerian Law, English Law, US Law and Mauritian Law. Lawyers provide highest quality legal services in several areas of
practice such as Corporate & Commercial; Capital & Money Markets; Mergers & Acquisition; Corporate, Project & Structured
Finance; Banking & Finance; Tax; Real Estate & Conveyancing; Energy, Power & Natural Resources; Transportation (Aviation,
Maritime etc.); Intellectual Property; Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution etc


Although, it is generally  acclaimed  that studnet's life begins after University  graduation. However the greater truth is that life begins at birth. Graduation only marks a greater  phase of growth. It  then  becomes ideal for students to take  proactive steps as they approach different  phases of life.

It is worth saying  that the birth of this Career enabling  event is credited to the ingenuity  of the  Leadership Law Students' Society and the genuine  concern expressed  by the Tokunbo Orimobi towards the quality of graduates that universities churn out on yearly  basis.

The Life-After-School Series is an informal platform that helps groom university undergraduates and prepares them
for the corporate world. Issues such as: Career Plans, Loyalty, Assertiveness, Diplomacy, Respect for Constituted
Authority, Handling Politics in the Work Place, Handling Criticisms and other related issues are to be on the front burner of the event.


Date: Thursday 11th October, 2018
TIME : 12 noon
Venue: Old moot court, Faculty Of Law. OAU

NB: However unrestricted, Premium is placed on 400L and 500L

Adedigba Daniel, Ifelaw President Addresses Nigeria on 58th Independence Anniversary

THAT WE MAY BE INDEPENDENT FROM THIS INDEPENDENCE  

Today, we join the rest of the world to commemorate with our dear country on yet another annual record of celebration after we gained independence from the stranglehold of oppression, humiliation and exploitation in 1960. It is indeed a feat worthy of an annual remembrance and jubilation.

However, at this stage in our national calendar, it behooves on us quickly to make a sober reflections and necessary reminiscences to our historical pains and gains, to our trajectory fortunes and misdeeds. At age 58, we should be geared at promoting our national gains and fortunes while similarly throwing to a bottomless pit, all resolves that has been responsible for our backward progress.

At this stage in our national calendar, we should hold strongly to the real adoption in the truism of Nigeria being the giant of Africa, we similarly should make the giant whole in its entirety, an attempt to separate the head, the arm and parts of the giant is tantamount to consciously making a dwarf of a giant. An attempt at secession is a deliberate attempt indeed to render our giant powerless which applies with equal force to our giant full of sound and fury while signifying nothing. At this point, we should aggregate our strength and unify our differences.

At this stage in our national calendar, we should walk without fear and send our daughters to schools without a subsequent call for “bring backs”.
At this stage in our national calendar, we should have the real picture of a true democracy where the people really matter and where elections are not done for us in unconscientious proxy.

At this stage in our national calendar, we should align with the Biblical antics in 1 Corinthians 13:11 and put away childish things. Only then would our independence be independent.

Happy Independence Day.
Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Daniel O. Adedigba,
President,
Law Students’ Society,
Obafemi Awolowo University,

1st October 2018.

BASIC NUGGETS FOR A REWARDING LECTURE FREE WEEK

We have come to that period of the semester. EXAMINATION PERIOD!.
EXAM time  can be super stressful and sometimes no matter how hard you try to keep your cool, things get on top of you.
As a way of setting a golden precedence embedded with benchmarks of success. Make do with these tips on how to get it right this examination period.


1. GET A TIME-TABLE
Over time, this is a common rule but most students don't see the essential part of it.
If you have more than one exam to deal with...
Draw out a timetable with dates and time of each exam and how many topics need to be covered within the period of time.

2. CREATE AND ORGANISE YOUR READING SPACE.
It may be that before the exam period, you had no organised reading table/space.
•Get enough space to spread your textbook and notes out.
•More lights, comfortable chair, No phones, No laptop (make all necessary research before reading), No games, GET RID OF ALL DISTRACTIONS!.
•LISTEN TO BACKGROUND MUSIC; while this may not help some people, it helps a large number of students. It prepares them for distractions in the exam hall.

3. BE YOUR LECTURER!
Visual aids can be really helpful when revising for exams.
•Challenge yourself to write down you already know about a topic.
•Condence your revision notes into one page diagrams before the exam. This helps you to quickly recall during the exam.

4. PRACTICE PAST QUESTIONS!
It helps you get the format of the questions.
• Time yourself and make sure you spend the right amount of time on each section.

5. LECTURE OTHERS!
• Get a group of friends/classmates/younger ones.
• Explain answers to questions to them. It helps to clear your head.

6. GIVE YOURSELF BREAKS!.
This has been proved by scientists to help retention of knowledge.
• Create a study routine that works for you.
• Do not feel guilty being out enjoying the sunshine, instead of hunched over your textbooks.
• Remember, vitamin D is good for a healthy brain!

7. SPEND YOUR MONEY!.
As silly as this may sound, it is necessary. You need to give yourself treats during this exam period.
• Eat the right food at the right time.
• Little chocolates? Yes, but not much, remember 'sugar may seem appealing but your energy level will crash an hour later.

8. PLAN YOUR EXAM DAY!
This sums up all that has been said so far.
• Never be later to an exam. Work out how long it will take to get there, then add up some extra time.
• Go with friends/classmates. It has been discovered by scientist that the presence of intelligent friends around you in your exam environment boosts your self esteem.

SUCCESS!!!⚡⚡

From:
LSS PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.
Law Students' Society, OAU.

Ifelaw Bags Best Faculty Award, Scoops 15 Individual Categories

The Law Students' Society, O. A. U had overtime shown spirit of excellence in all spheres . In the same bend, on the 2nd of August 2018, the IFELAW Society has it is fondly called, proved that once again.

Observant minds would  agree that the university  community has  been flurried for some weeks now due to the just concluded OAU AWARDS hosted by HOTINC. The nominees of several categories having gone through  several voting processes ranging from  online votings to the offline  balloting.

This year, IFELAW had in record peck of her members  nominated for different categories and also Faculty of  Law  nominated under the  "BEST FACULTY" category.

Interesting  to record that the "Outstanding  Faculty President"  category  was also clinched by the president  of the Law Students' Society, Mr Adedigba Daniel.

Law students, in their usual spirit of unity supported all the nominees from the faculty in all the voting processes and even came out en masse on the day of the award to elicit optimal  support  and motivation.

FACULTY OF LAW WON "THE BEST FACULTY" and  14 individual  categories  were won by the law students nomimees.

Categories such as: 

• Law - Best Faculty
• Prima Strata - Best Club
• Adedigba Daniel Cortez - Outstanding President
• Easy man  - Most Influential Male
• G1 - Political Icon
• Koye LAdele Mofehintoluwa - Best Writer
• Abass Oyeyemi (Bazzman) - Student Blogger
• Frizzy - Student Poet
• Dj Miles - Best DJ
• Alaska - Best Clothier
• Anu - Face of OAU female
• Lexy - Most Fashionable Male
• Amupitan Caleb - Best Class Governor
• Rotimi - Best Comedian
• Gambit - Rookie Male
• Alphaglam - Best make-up  Artist 

After accomplishing such a feat, what comes next is celebration from all law students.We feel elated as we celebrate with those who went forward and made us proud, we are inspirted with the sensation of unity and oneness and we feel the pride of  belonging to IFELAW.

Once again,  we say huge  congratulations to all the winners. GOD BLESS IFELAW.

IFELAW TO HOST HEALTH SUMMIT THIS FRIDAY

IFELAW TO  HOST HEALTH  SUMMIT THIS FRIDAY

The Summit is an Initiative Of the Law Students’ Society, OAU

The Initiative becomes expedient upon the acknowledgment of the need to pay much more attention to the Health as a necessary condition precedent to a sound intellectual mind.

The summit would  feature:

HEALTH TALK SESSIONS

The health talk session is to be given by the Director of the Obafemi Awolowo University Medical and Health Centre, Dr Irinoye (Chairman of the Summit) as well as our own Dr Yusuf. The health talk commences by 9:30 at the New Moot and Mock Court Complex.
At the venue, there would be registration and Free Souvenirs (Jotters, Biro among other things) would be given out to the early participants.

 MEDICAL SCREENING/TEST

After the talk session at the New Moot Court, we proceed to the Faculty Of Law basement where we would have free medical test to be conducted by Professional Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and Laboratory Technicians.


 DISPENSATION OF MEDICATION

Upon a successful screening process, there would dispensation of free medication to screened persons and where necessary, referrals for further check up._


The available test/medication include but not restricted to:

MALARIA
TOILET DISEASE
Cough, Cold and Catarrh
Headache
Blood Test
Body Pain
Diabetes
Hypertension
Asthmatic Patients
Wound Care
Deworming
Arthritis
Sugar Check
High blood pressure
Among a host of others

The IFELAW Health Summit is in its entirety FREE and its with an open direction.

Side attraction similarly abound in music and light refreshments.

Finally, it remains an unshaken resolve of the Law Students’ Society to ensure the general welfare of law Students is paid due attention.

Time : 9am
Date: 3rd of August, 2018
Time : Moot court

LIFE OF A LAW STUDENT

LIFE OF A LAW STUDENT 

Episode 3

I once applied for an opportunity to participate in a women leadership conference organized and sponsored by a company in Paris, I wrote a cover letter and attached a document including my GP and other requirements to the email address that was provided on their website, Then I proceeded to google for pictures of Paris and had started having funny dreams of visiting Eiffel tower and locking one of those little padlocks of love with some man I fell in love with in Paris (I know right). Well, those dreams stopped the morning I received an email that started with the words “it is with regret that we…” my heart was too broken to read the rest of the mail. The email I got from tax club started with “Congratulations...” that’s how I know I got in, I read the mail to the end, there was a get together to welcome us by weekend and I had already mentally picked the gown I was going to wear.

I had been chatting with this Dapo guy from Medicine for a week now, and I had agreed to meet him, We agreed to meet around 7pm, From the pictures I saw on his Instagram page, he is dark in complexion and he appeared tall, So when I got outside my hostel where we agreed to meet, I looked straight up in search for the tall dark guy I had been chatting with for a week now, I had looked around, walked forward a bit and was about to call when I looked down and saw a dark, Short, tribal marked face staring back at me, and he was smiling, Now, I wasn’t expecting this, I smiled politely and walked with him towards SUB, We had the awkward first time we’re meeting talk and then we talked about how demanding his course is and how engaging the extra-curricular activities in mine could be, He found me ‘quite funny’, I found him very shy, On our way back to Akintola, He asked if we would do ‘this’ again, I laughed and replied with a yeahhhhh with my teeth held tightly together, in a tone I’m sure he knew was not sincere, I had enjoyed the way I spoke during the entire conversation and every part of what I did, I just  didn’t enjoy his company that much, So yeahhhhh, I wasn’t doing that again. I said goodnight to him and smiled my way back to my room.

There was no power supply, so all my room mates were in the room, since there was no light to read, Mama Jesh was talking about her wedding plans…again and the other room mates were talking about how we would buy the Ankara, and travel together, dance her in and all of that. While the gist was going on, Power supply was restored, and just when the noise that comes with the return of power supply came down, Amina, one of our room mates came in screaming that her bride price was gone, She had gone to take her evening shower and had not gone with her scarf, just her short towel and her male classmates who were in the hostel, since it was still past nine had seen her, My room mates went on to crack jokes about how bride price was going to be just one tuber of yam, Bukunmi jokingly said that it would be a handshake and the jokes went on and on, I put on my data and was scrolling through the numerous messages from my classmates who were analyzing the football match between Nigeria and Croatia and how many times Moses had fallen down during the match, and the different things that had happened in the different places they had watched the match, A guy fainted at amphi and some other drama at new Buka, the topic had changed to the pig that had predicted that Nigeria will get to semi-finals when I dozed off with my phone in my hand.
I had a class around 11am the next morning but I didn’t feel like leaving my room, So I deliberately missed it, only to hear later during the day that the class held and as a result of the low turnout of my classmates, he gave a test, just fantastic. If he actually uses the test that it is me losing about 10 marks, So yes, I hope to God that he doesn’t use it. The rest of the week was just full of classes that did not hold from chemical engineering to faculty down to HSLT and then PG, I thought being in part 4 comes with having classes in venues with proximity to the faculty, Boy! I was wrong. Saturday came and it was a rainy day, It had rained all day and was still raining and it didn’t look like it was going to stop, So I got dressed and went out with my umbrella, got a bike man and err, never use an umbrella on a bike, It’s not a good idea, It got bent and rain beat me right from Akintola to the faculty, I got to the faculty wet and shivering, but the welcome party was worth it. As I was scrolling through Instagram ,I saw this picture of egusi, nicely made on Instagram, I am on my way to central market to get the necessary condiments to make mine, I find it very uncomfortable passing Fajuyi to the market, so I decided to take a bike, From the SUB junction, the bike rider  started speeding as if we were on road one, It felt good, My hair was in the hair like some kinda flawless lady in an Indian movie, I was actually savoring the moment when all of a sudden, A car coming directly from opposite Faj annex did not stop at the junction, he was speeding and then the bike I was on was still speeding, All I heard next was a loud bang…

OAU Ifelaw Releases Theme Song

 

Students of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University

 I F E L A W   I S   O N E
We Are IFELAW
   Oba Number ONE
       We Are Golden

Introducing the First of the Best 🔥🔥🔥

The Anthem of the Great Faculty IFELAW With a Bang!💥 With Peng!! 💦 And Issa Vibe!!!

One IFELAW would keep you on a cruise of the togetherness of the love within each and every one of us. From the Talents of the grande faculty and powered by the Director of socials, LSS OAU

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​NLCOC Honouree Initiates Annual Award for Ifelaw Best Graduating Student

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it



Obviously, NLCOC '18  has come  and gone but its legacy lives forever in the  history book of our dear society.
The success of the just concluded  NLCOC is not only hanging on the actuality but as well as the precedent that has been laid.

It's noteworthy  that we call the attention of our esteemed members of the society to the momentous and monumental strides incidental to the success of the just concluded conference.

While giving  his address, the Honouree, Dr Liman Hassan Mohammed gracefully assured:

° ​To award the best graduating  law student, hence the Dr Hassan M. Liman's Prize.​

° ​To facilitate  the functionality of legal aid clinic for  faculty of law.​

 ° ​The Honouree  further expressed his unwavering   love and desire to support the Law Students' Society in their bid to provide quality legal education for members of the society.​

The University's Vice chancellor who was represented  by the University's librarian conferred  the title of ​"Wakili of OAU"​ (OAU Ambassador) on Dr Liman Hassan Mohammed.


With this we have once again collectively affirmed our society to be the pacemaker and trendsetter for others.

We are indebted to our dear Honouree  who has made possible this extraordinary inflection in the Faculty's trajectory.


Very few things in life are entirely the work of just one person – and this is no exception, so It is good we pay tribute to the enormous contributions made by our dear Honouree, his team, guest speakers and invited schools.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that has contributed to the success  of the program. Most  especially, the  entire  Law Students' Society for the  unflinching and invariable support.

We hold the belief  that with your unwavering  support, the success  of NLCOC would  be a corollary  to greater feats for our beloved society.

THE CAMPUS ELITES by Ola Da Poet

The campus Elites

Who would have thought...
things change over time
Wind of change do take some attires off the line
Things get better but atimes they go sore
Castle of Awo fell
Comerades therein fled
Only the brave runs to fight another day
Campus hostel got decongested
All hail the king!!
Everyone went the other way
There are just two sets of students herein
The elites and the masses!

On my campus
The elites are not the ones that spray money around
Neither are they the ones that happens to wear the best
But those who are on okada while  others wait for the  never-coming bus

On my campus
Elites are not the people who eat with cutlery
Placing the forks and knives rightly
But the privileged few who gets the bus
While other trek to campus gate
A true herculean mission that takes forever

On my campus
The elites are not the ones ones with matching shoes and bags
Neither are they the ones on heels to lectures
But the ones  who fling their car keys
When others initiates the unending war of getting into a 'town gboro'
They  drive around in their cars
elites are not the 'off campus' livers
But the ones on the inside
As the 'off campuser' joins the struggle of destination daily
The insiders laugh and smile
'my abode is few blocks away'
We know who the elites are




Bello olanrewaju Emmanuel is a part 3 student of the faculty of Law. He is a social realist poet and currently the Assistant General Secretary of the Law Student Soceiety, Obafemi Awolowo University.