\u2026 Promises to uphold ethics of law profession
\nThe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has taken oath as Notary Public before the Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday.
\nThe speaker who is a lawyer was administered the oath by the chief judge of the FCT Justice Ishaq I.U. Bello at the FCT High Court Headquarters in Abuja.
\nSpeaking shortly after taken the oath, the Speaker, expressed gratitude to the Chief justice of Nigeria Justice Walter Samuel Onnoghen who approved the application.
\n\u2018We thank the CJN through you who has made this day possible, and we thank you profusely also for \u00a0this day,\u2019 he said.
\nSpeaking further, Dogara said, \u2018I have listened to your charge and I thank you very much for your kind words. We will do everything to ensure that we keep the light burning even though this is coming at a time the profession has come under some challenges.\u2019
\n\u2018I believe that some of us who are coming from behind you who have acquired the necessary training, will rise above the challenges to ensure our profession still retains the pride of place among all other professions. \u00a0So challenges will come but it\u2019s the way we react to it that matters and I\u2019m sure we will overcome .\u2019
\nOn his part, Justice Bello admonished Rt Hon Dogara \u00a0not to do anything that will impeach the credibility of his status as a notary public saying, \u2018this is indeed a onerous task that requires a lot of modesty, impartial conduct and due diligence. Before you sign any document, you must examine it thoroughly and make sure that those elements which you said you\u2019ll never accede to are not there.\u2019
\nAccording to Justice Bello, \u2018as a notary public, you are a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, power-of-attorney and foreign and international business.\u2019
\nA notary\u2019s main function is to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026 Promises to uphold ethics of law profession The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has taken oath as Notary Public before the Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday. The speaker who is a lawyer was administered the oath by the chief judge of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}