{"id":124132,"date":"2016-02-26T04:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T03:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=124132"},"modified":"2016-02-26T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T06:48:11","slug":"lawyer-tasks-rsg-on-online-legal-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=124132","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Tasks RSG On Online Legal Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_124136\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124136\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FRED260216-ICT-18-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"L-R: Managing Director, Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), Mrs Abimbola Alale, Minister of Communication and Technology, Mr Adebayo Shitu and the NIGCOMSAT\u2019s  General-Manager, Satellite Operations, Mr Danjuma Ndihgihdah, during the NIGCOMSAT\u2019s  facility tour by the minister in Abuja, recently.\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FRED260216-ICT-18-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FRED260216-ICT-18-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FRED260216-ICT-18-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FRED260216-ICT-18.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-124136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Managing Director, Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), Mrs Abimbola Alale, Minister of Communication and Technology, Mr Adebayo Shitu and the NIGCOMSAT\u2019s General-Manager, Satellite Operations, Mr Danjuma Ndihgihdah, during the NIGCOMSAT\u2019s facility tour by the minister in Abuja, recently.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Rivers State<br \/>\nGovernment has been urged to create an online platform that could enable people anywhere across the globe to access.<br \/>\nA practising lawyer in the state, Barr Grace Amadi made the call in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Port Harcourt.<br \/>\nShe said the State Government should\u00a0 see the online platform as a matter of urgent attention and do justice to it.<br \/>\nAmadi noted that the process upon completion, will promote accountability and responsibility.<br \/>\nAccording to her, if laws like the state\u2019s Sale of Goods Law are online, people would have easy access to it and utilise the system.<br \/>\nShe said the platform should be created in a pattern that users of the site would be made to pay certain amount of money.<br \/>\nShe pointed out that it would aid investors and would-be investors in the country to avail themselves with various legal protections both for their persons and investments.<br \/>\nThe legal icon noted that the need for legislation to be upto-date and relevant could not be over emphasised, going by the global happenings in the legal system.<br \/>\nShe also pointed out that the platform would be a revenue source for the state when users begin to download the application.<br \/>\nFurthermore, she said proceedings of the State House of Assembly, should also have an online system where people would download and follow-up its activities with less qualms.<br \/>\nAccording to her, online system, has a way of perfecting issues, adding\u00a0 that lawmakers would then act in line with best international practices.<br \/>\nHowever, she has suggested the ICT department of the state as a parent body, to test-run the system (online platform).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State Government has been urged to create an online platform that could enable people anywhere across the globe to access. A practising lawyer in the state, Barr Grace Amadi made the call in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Port Harcourt. She said the State Government should\u00a0 see the online platform as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}