As a lifelong student of law, I am trained to check everything thrice and still leave myself wiggle room.

I am, therefore, surprised by people’s chutzpah in holding forth about (even specialised) matters about which they have zero knowledge or experience –or qualifications: +

I have been 'found short and marked up' by several assorted engineers ,chartered accountants & businessmen (in each case with 0 legal qualifications)* on the standard ‘England and Wales’ governing law clause-which has been boldly 'corrected' to 'UK law' , +
and in one case, believe it or not, the ‘kings’ law’(the Apostrophe too as placed!)

*Incidentally, besides professional legal qualifications and many years of International Project Finance legal experience, I have a distinction in Private International Law (that deals with+
governing law clauses) from one of England's top universities.

My English language skills have been found 'wanting' by the European CEO of a leading EPC Contractor who informed me : ‘The English no goood’ .+
This gentleman’s standard letter ‘in English’ consists of throwing in a few words and relying on the reader’s goodwill - to supply all connecting grammar. +
But what stung the most was being 'taken to task' by a gentleman -whose mother tongue is Marathi and who reads Urdu in the Devanagari and not its original script-on my Urdu pronunciation of what he said was Faiz’s ‘gazal’ : ‘mujh se pehli si mohabbat meray mehboob na maang’. +
He went on to give me a DEVASTATING ‘reading’ - which broke every Urdu speaking* ‘ahle – zaban’ bone in my body and rendered me completely speechless-in any known language.+
* I descend from ‘an entrenched’ Urdu speaking ahle -zaban ('speaker and keepers' of Urdu) background - even the simplest mispronunciation of the full throat qāf (common enough even among Urdu speakers) registers a jarring note to my fine tuned years.
ears and years😂

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Good evening everyone! Welcome to the Year 2021 and the first KP Social Media Discussion of the year. Today we are gonna discuss the concept of digital identity and the legal issues it raises.

It is not news that the fourth industrial revolution has led to many novel innovations on how everyone lives their lives.

Most operations in life can now be done digitally since the rise of the digital age and social networking, and since the Corona Virus mandated lockdowns most social interactions from work to school to parties, weddings and funerals are done digitally.

In Nigeria, there is a ramped up pressure to create a digital profile for every Nigerian through the National Identity Card Scheme which is now operated by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.

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