OYEBISI F. OMOLEYE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the ruling of B.F.M. Nyako J. of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division delivered on 21/10/04. The appellants were plaintiffs while the respondents were defendants in the suit commenced by originating summons seeking both declaratory and injunctive reliefs regarding an advertisement made by the 2nd respondent in THISDAY Newspaper of April 22, 2004 inviting interested and eligible consultants with expertise in petroleum logistics in the oil and gas industry to indicate their interests in providing the required consultancy services, on the ground that the said advertisement violates Rules 45, 48 and 50 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners in Nigeria. The appellants are challenging the propriety of the said advertisement of a ''request for expression of interest" inviting legal practitioners to offer legal services to the respondents on the condition that lawyers subordinate th…