Dr E 🩺

If you apply your mind a little, you would see that my response destroyed your argument. But let me reiterate, in case you have any difficulty doing so: 1. The flat fee in a High Court is N1k, not 10% of property value. I offered 5 times that amount. 2. The lawyer who did it for me decided not to charge. I didn’t force him not to. I sent him a bottle of cognac as a token of appreciation, and we have since developed a great relationship in which he has handled several matters for me, for which he was properly remunerated. 3. You do not want to engage with the comparisons with other professions because you cannot counter the inherent logic in the comparisons without sounding unlearned. Even the UK solicitor handling the conveyancing was not asking for 10% of the property's value. He was getting a very modest flat fee. Our people here wanted to charge a percentage of property value for witnessing a signature. If that makes sense to you, good luck. But please note that I will continue to ridicule it. If you have deployed a skill, by all means, charge for it. Whoever is willing to pay for that skill will do so and anybody who doesn’t want to will go elsewhere. What skill is involved in witnessing a signature that warrants 10% of the property value, please? Same thing with standard tenancy agreements with standard clauses. AI will soon take that one over anyway and there would always be someone that would put their stamp on it for a modest fee. You are free to keep waiting for 10% of property value. What you don’t realise is that setting a flat fee for routine transactions will actually encourage more people to use lawyers. It will also help junior lawyers who can make money on volume and turnover, leaving senior lawyers to focus on complex matters. But the preference of some is to reap where they did not sow for doing next to nothing. It won’t work with me and I will continue to advocate against it. Have a great day.

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You go to a clinic in Lagos. Then a hospital in Abuja. Then a specialist in Port Harcourt. Each time, you start from scratch. New forms. Old stories retold. No shared record. This is what the absence of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and interoperability looks like in practice. An EHR is simply your medical history, digitized, organized, and accessible to any authorized clinician treating you. One record. Everywhere you go. That's not a luxury. That's basic continuity of care. And we deserve it in Nigeria

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