Nigeria, June 9 -- What kind of English Language is the "ignore" that I used here - Queen's, King's or Nigeria's English? There is history behind it, which goes back many decades, to those periods when men of principles and ideology, who shunned money, position, and principles and dared the powers-that-be, were still plentiful in the Legal profession (both Bar and Bench).

As the story goes, Kanmi Ishola-Osobu, who contested, as it were, the alias of "The people's lawyer" with his more illustrious senior, Comrade Alao Aka-Bashorun, and the sobriquet of "Fela's lawyer" with debonair Tunji Braithwaite, got pissed off by the antics of a judge and, characteristically, minced no words in giving it back wholesale to "Me Lord", as they are addre...