SON Certifies First Law Firm, Ace Solicitors, To Broadcast Law Practice In Pidgin

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Wednesday in Abuja
certified an Abuja-based law firm, Ace Solicitors, as the first
firm in Nigeria to exclusively broadcast law practice in Pidgin
English on the radio.

Tagged “Law in Pidgin English Radio,” the programme which was
launched by SON in collaboration with the Nigerian Broadcasting
Commission (NBC) was accompanied by the official presentation of
ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System Certificate to the
firm.

Speaking at the event, the Director-General of the Standard
Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mr. Osita Aboloma, who was
represented by Mr. Olumide Alade, said the presentation of the law
broadcast in Pidgin English on radio would go a long way in
educating Nigerians on their rights and privileges and also help
them in understanding the laws of the federation better.

He said: “This is towards customer satisfaction. It is a drive
towards customer focus and they are trying to make sure that they
render services to the grassroots in a manner that no one has done
before.

“When this has been broken down, all the parties involved in any
legal issue will have a better understanding of what are their
rights and privileges. This is the understanding that we didn’t
have before. But now, with this Pidgin English language radio it
has really become something that an average Nigerian can understand
better.”

Chairman of Ace Solicitors, Mr. Bright Igbako, in his
submission, said the broadcast of law in Pidgin language would help
in decongesting the courts of many cases. It would take law to the
door steps of ordinary citizens because the programme would
interpret law in the language they could understand.

“We believe that to be able to make law relevance and to enable
a cross section of Nigerians to understand the environment in which
they work the legal system that governs the work and their lives
must be interpreted to them in a language they understand,” Igbako
said.

Also speaking, chairman of the occasion, Mr. Mark Emakpre,
reiterated that the Law in Pidgin Radio would help the ordinary man
on the street to understand the law and know what to do when
confronted with issues bordering on law.

“It helps the ordinary man on the street because pidgin English
is pervasive in the society. It is more understood by more people
than any other language. So, it will help people more to understand
their predicaments if they face the law or their rights. It will
help people to understand the circumstances of their situations
when they come face to face with the law,” Emakpre said.

In the same vein, Ambassador Brownson Dede was full of praise
for the Chairman of Ace Solicitors, Igbako, acknowledging him as a
man of high quality. Dede said law would be brought to the
understanding of the ordinary man with the launch of “Law in
Pidgin” on the radio.

Similarly, the Managing Director of Infinity Trust Mortgage
Bank, Obaleye Olabanjo, also commended Ace Solicitors and urged it
not to relent in its sense of innovation.

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