[Register Now] Afam Osigwe SAN Courtroom Mail Prize’s Second Edition Begins

The Afam Osigwe Courtroom Mail Prize for young lawyers has begun its second year.

Courtroom Mail established the tournament in honor of Mazi Afam Osigwe SAN, a well-known lawyer in Nigeria and a former secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, in order to include and inspire young lawyers in that country.

All Nigerian young lawyers post-call age seven are eligible to enter the tournament. It is accessible to attorneys admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 2016 or later for the 2023 session.

The winner will receive N150,000, the runner-up N120,000, and the third place winner will receive N100,000 cash to spend on a law book.

There will be four rounds to the tournament, and the victors at each round will be selected by who successfully answers the questions.

The registration question, which is the first question in the first stage, has already been posted. Anyone who responds to the first question by June 15, 2023, or before, is regarded to have enrolled for the contest and will go to the second round.

The second stage will have the second question. It will be opened at 8am on Saturday 17th of June 2023: The second stage is open to everyone who answered the registration question in stage one. Half of those who answer the second question correctly will qualify in stage 2 and shall be eligible to participate in stage 3.

Those who qualified in Stage 2 will compete in stage 3 question (which will be opened at 8am on Saturday 24th of June 2023 and the first 15 contestants to provide the correct answer will qualify for the finals.

The first, second and third participants to post the correct answer to the final question which will be opened at 8am on Saturday 1st of July 2023 will emerge as the winner of 2023 Afam Osigwe Courtroom Mail Prize for young lawyers

Note that, no one is allowed to join the competition after the first stage. All questions will be answered on the comment section for registered and logged in users.

Note also that when a participant answers one question more than once in a particular stage, the first answer will be considered.

Any participant who participates with two accounts will be disqualified at any stage it is discovered.

To access the questions every Saturday, go to Quiz Hall/Competition on the Menu.

The questions may be scheduled at any time but will be opened at 8am Nigerian time on the Saturdays slated for the competition.

To register by responding to the first query, click here.

Regardless of whether you correctly or incorrectly answered the question, you are considered to have registered once you do. To go on from the second step, you must get it right.

Where the title to or interest in family or communal land is in issue, oral evidence of family or communal tradition concerning such title or interest is admissible.