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NITDA 2019/2020 Nigeria Scholarship Award for Masters and PhD ( Fully funded )

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IGBO DAUGHTERS (WOMEN) NOW TO INHERIT WILLS. UKEJE V. UKEJE

In Igbo Customary Law, succession and inheritance are taken for granted as enuring by the principle of primogeniture. In other words, the eldest male child (Okpala or Diokpa) of the intestate has a sole claim to the estate of the deceased. Hence, female children do not inherit their deceased parents. Against this backdrop, a suit arose at a Lagos State High Court. It was instituted by one of the daughters of the deceased Lazarus Ogbonnaya Ukeje, who challenged the grant of Letters of Administration to her mother (and widow of the deceased) and her brother to her exclusion. She maintained that being a child of the deceased, the grant was discriminatory having offended section 42 (2) of the 1999 Constitution. Appealing against the decision of the Lagos High Court that found in favour of the Claimant, the Defendants/Appellants cited Igbo Customary Law as the basis for which she was disinherited. The Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling of the lower court. Further dissatisfied, the Appellan...

How to achieve unbelievable heights.

It is indeed common knowledge that everyone wants to be successful, live their dreams and mentain the growth but what remains the challenge is that they do not know what path to follow and are also faced with the challenge of wrong choices resulting from bad decisions. It is also a reality that we have desires and wants but not everyone gets what they aspire. An example is the Hollywood where a chunk of people visit every day to live and fulfill their dreams and offcourse not everyone can live in Hollywood because Hollywood won't contain all that yearn to go there, In order to succeed we have to therefore learn what others do differently that enabled them have that good life, the enabled them be viewed different, that enabled them succeed. Mentors have the power: In order to transform your life, it is important that you have a mentor, even more than one if you aspirations in some other field(s). There is nothing you can achieve in life without following the footsteps of others,...

Apply: TED Fellows Program 2018. Fully-funded to Attend Conference in Vancouver, Canada

Applications are on for one of the two TED Fellows Programme’s two application cycles: TED Fellowships. Application Timelines: Opening date: 18th July 2017Closing date: 10th September, 2017 Offered annually? Biannual Eligible Countries: Global To be taken at (country): Vancouver, Canada About the Award: The TEDGlobal Fellowships is designed to bring together young trailblazers from a variety of fields who have shown unusual accomplishment and courage. Instead of business people, professionals, policy wonks and government officials, the TED Fellows program focuses on doers, makers, inventors, advocates, filmmakers and photographers, musicians and artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, NGO heads, and human rights activists. Twenty fellows will be selected to attend the TED Global conference to be held Aug. 27 to 30, 2017. Participants will also have the opportunity to attend pre-conference progra...

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