 It really is a great honor to be here today to celebrate along with you, with friends and family, the memories, the work, the life of a great legal icon and accomplished author, my friend and brother Silk, Digi Shashem, Senior Advocate of Nigeria. As with many of us here, Digi and I shared a friendship and I must say that it was not in any way affected by the vast difference in our heights. Digi was, as you know, one of the tallest lawyers of our time, six feet seven, I believe he was, and I, well, let's just say I am still growing. The times we shared were filled with laughter but also with deep reflections on the great challenges that confronted and still confront our profession and our nation. His passion was legal publications and he lived it, he briefed it. Digi's publications of the Nigerian Supreme Court cases, NSCC, the Shashem-1 encyclopedia of Nigerian laws, companies and allied matters at law and practice, you know, and so many others. Of course we've heard Shashem-1, election petitions, etc. are not just reliable legal tools for practitioners and scholars alike, but they contain on every page painstaking commitment, rigorous thinking and an incredible amount of physical and mental hard work. I know this because I was involved from the very beginning of Digi's journey into legal publications. Very early in the 80s, I believe it was 1983 or so, when he conceived of the idea of the Nigerian Supreme Court cases, he shared this vision with a few of us, his friends. He wanted to be the first to publish a full report of all Nigerian Supreme Court cases, all Supreme Court decisions, a comprehensive report of all Nigerian Supreme Court decisions. Eventually, Chief Ghanifah and the S.A.N., of Pleasant Memory, got into that same race with him. So it really was a race between Digi and Chief Ghanifah and me, who would be the first to publish his comprehensive, comprehensive, compediom of all of Nigeria Supreme Court cases. He shared the vision with such passion, you know, and he simply couldn't resist agreeing to work on the project with him. I saw him put everything he had into it. We all had no choice. You know we worked with him night and day at the office on the Corridor Road. We worked overnight, many many times, slept in the office there, worked night and day and of course Oge was around to give us coffee or a snack everyone's in the wild. Did you want that race as he won so many others? You know and the NCC became the first comprehensive report of all Nigerian Supreme Court cases. And this is the way that he worked on all his publications. So much diligence, so much dedication. As editor-in-chief of the DSC Publishers Limited, DG dedicated his life to the documentation of judicial precedence an indelible legacy in the Nigerian legal system that and I believe generations yet unborn from within and outside the country will benefit from it. His contributions to online reporting has brought about ease, speed and accuracy in an unprecedented manner. As of 1983, very few people had seen computers but DG had a whole room full of computers huge workstations. I mean those things were giant things at the time you know working with them was you know I mean possibly as difficult as working manually but they produced the results. So the very early use of technology you know to do publications of any kind. DG again was one of the pioneers of that. So what better way to celebrate such an icon in legal scholarship than by bringing to life yet another of his contributions to the Nigerian legal jurisprudence. Anyone who has had an opportunity to take a look at the judicial dictionary of Nigerian law will see you know that you know just as Coen has said definitions of over 150,000 terms as rendered by our supreme courts and the articulate take of the author on those terms and a lot of that will attest to the nature and character of DG's work. He's always epitomized quality and high standards. I believe this dictionary is not just an indispensable tool for the legal profession and for legal scholarship but it will also provide you know so many new ways of looking at some of the old terms and terminologies that will come across regularly. I believe that this publication also is one that will find that it takes us through the distinctions, the terms, the effects and application in practice. The truth is that DG has always been so thorough, so so thorough and never was satisfied with anything that just was not the best. So for everyone who worked with him, I mean many of them grew grey very very very quickly. I must say that a lot of my own grey hair you know and I'm not blaming my dear friend for what has become you know practically all grey but frankly I mean if you worked the way that DG worked and made sure that everybody around him worked, you really ended up with a lot of grey hair. Okay I really commend you and congratulate you and by the way Oge also had plenty of grey hair very early. Go ahead and enjoy your tea and your tea for this very thoughtful venture. I think that it is very very thoughtful indeed to ensure that we bring this particular set of this particular set of volumes that he worked so hard to bring to the world before he died that you worked on it and you brought it right to completion. The world will forever remain grateful to you and your family for selflessly sharing DG with us and for your family's contribution to this shaping and growth of legal jurisprudence. As many of the testimonies today attest this extraordinarily calm warm kind and humble human being who departed at the unripe age of 63 had positively touched the lives of so many who would forget the generous discounts and flexible payment plans offered by DG to us and to young lawyers wishing to purchase his law reports or his secret giving to the needy. He was a life of compassion and his immortality is assured not only in the contributions of our profession but also in the hearts of so many who fondly remember his humanness and his generosity. DG's legacy of hard work, innovation and legal publishing lives on. But what gladdens my heart and I'm glad that Kwanya alluded to it is that he found the Lord Jesus Christ before he died so we are confident that he now lives in peace and joy eternally. God bless you all day. Thank you very much. Thank you.