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BEYOND THE LECTURE ROOM: THE WOMAN WHO SAW A LAWYER IN ME BEFORE I FULLY SAW ONE IN MYSELF.

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An appreciation of Counsel Ameo Jennifer Ogol: A lecturer, mentor, professional and a remarkable destiny helper in my legal journey. There are people who come into our lives through ordinary circumstances but end up occupying extraordinary positions in our stories. Some meet us in lecture rooms, others through professional engagements, and some through the corridors of institutions. Yet, what makes their presence special is not necessarily how we met, but what they choose to become in our lives. My story with Counsel Ameo Jennifer Ogol is one such experience. Sometimes, when I reflect on how our relationship developed, I struggle to identify the exact moment when a lecturer became a mentor, a professional became a friend, and a friend gradually became someone I regard as a mother figure. What I know, however, is that she has been one of the most influential people in my journey within the legal profession. She saw something in me at a time when I was still discovering wh...
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I WENT TO EXPLOITS MINISTRIES LOOKING FOR FOOD, BUT I FOUND MY DESTINY: HOW EXPLOITS CHANGED MY STORY.

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An invitation to every university student to discover that life beyond the lecture room is equally important in shaping their future. There are moments in life when God introduces you to people and places whose significance you only begin to understand years later. Sometimes, you walk into a place looking for something small, only to discover that God has prepared something much greater than what you came searching for. My story with Exploits Ministries is one such experience. Today, when I look at the person I have become, the opportunities I have encountered, the people who have walked with me and the professional journey I am pursuing, I cannot tell my story without mentioning Exploits Ministries. I went to Exploits Ministries looking for food, but I found a family, a spiritual foundation, mentors, destiny helpers and, above all, a renewed understanding of my purpose. When Life Was Becoming Uncertain My journey into Exploits Ministries did not begin with a grand spiritua...
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ABB VOC Where Our Story Began, and Where Brotherhood Never Ends.

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Some schools give you an education. Others give you an identity, friendships, memories and a foundation upon which the rest of your life is built. ArchBishop Bakyenga Vocational Secondary School is one of those rare places. There is something extraordinarily beautiful about going back to the people with whom you once shared a chapter of your life. It is even more special when that chapter was written in the classrooms, dormitories, playgrounds and corridors of a small school that quietly shaped the people we have become. ArchBishop Bakyenga Vocational Secondary School (ABB VOC SS), situated in Katerera, Rubirizi District, is more than just a school to us. It is a home of memories, a birthplace of friendships and, in many ways, the foundation of our destiny. We may describe it as a small school, but its impact on our lives has never been small. It is one of those institutions whose greatness cannot be measured by the size of its buildings, the number of its classrooms or the...
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The mere receipt of professional fees by a legal practitioner does not, without more, make the fees proceeds of unlawful activity or impose upon the lawyer an obligation to investigate the source of the client's funds.

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The Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), (2021) LPELR-54666(CA) , is an important Nigerian Court of Appeal decision concerning legal fees, money laundering, ex parte freezing orders, and whether a lawyer has a duty to investigate the source of a client's source of income.  Facts of the Case  The matter arose from an investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds connected with an arms-procurement transaction. The EFCC had obtained an order freezing certain bank accounts associated with Ayodele Fayose, then Governor of Ekiti State. Subsequently, the Federal High Court sitting at Ado-Ekiti made an order unfreezing Fayose's account. Fayose thereafter transferred ₦75 million from that account to the account of Mike Ozekhome's Chambers as professional legal fees. The Federal Republic of Nigeria subsequently obtained an ex parte order freezing Ozekhome's Chambers' account for 120 days, essentially on the basis that the ₦75 million wa...
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