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An en banc Fifth Circuit ruled against Texas’s controversial voter ID law today, affirming a district court opinion that found the law, known as SB 14, to have a discriminatory effect on minority voting rights in violation of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling came just in time as well. In April, the Supreme Court […]

If you’re worried about law school debt, you should be. If you attend law school, you may or may not end up with your dream job, but you will certainly end up with a monstrous pile of debt. The good news is that there are still schools out there that are graduating JDs without drowning […]

If you’re like the majority of attorneys, you got into this business to be paid. In an ideal world, you do the work and your clients pay you upon completion — promptly. Alas, this is not the ideal world. Fed up with the undeniable costs of having to maintain an accounts receivable, many attorneys have […]

The Zamfara State House of Assembly has listed six reasons justifying impeachment moves against the state governor, Abdulaziz Yari. The reasons were expressed on Wednesday in a statement issued in Gusau by the Chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Information, Mannir Gidan-Jaja. According to Gidan-Jaja, the governor misappropriated billions of naira from the state coffers.  […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has on Wednesday appointed CSP Jimoh Moshood as the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer. The appointment was issued in a statement by the Force Spokesman, Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Don Awunah in Abuja on Wednesday. Moshood is taken over from CSP Sogbeba West who has now been […]

The Nigerian Navy says it has arrested a suspected member of the Niger Delta Avengers. The arrested person is believed to be a major logistics supplier to the militants responsible for attacks on NNPC and Chevron oil and gas installations in the region. Director of Information, Commodore Christian Ezekobe gave the revelation in Abuja on […]

The Federal Government  has acknowledged the fact that there is hardship  and “serious shortage of foods”  in many families in the country presently. This was disclosed to State House correspondents on Wednesday by the Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Chief Audu Ogbeh, when he was given a rundown of the meeting of the Federal […]Read More

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 22 Commissioners of Police (CP), to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors -General of Police( AIG).  The Commission also approved the promotion of 29 Deputy Commissioners of Police to the rank of Commissioners of Police. Mr Ikechukwu Ani, head, press and public relations of the […]

Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih has said that those planning to  impeach  President Muhammadu Buhari should jettison that as the time was neither right nor the reasons compelling enough.  Anenih, in a four-page letter to the Chairman of the PDP National Caretaker Committee, Senator […]

Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Truck shipments were up in June from May. So were expenditures. That sounds pretty good, but it really isn’t. Shipments are normally up in June and the Cass Freight Index report from which I get numbers is not seasonally adjusted. The best way to compare June is to prior […]

Following Indonesia’s ban and issuance of a ‘national security threat’, Reuters reports that Saudi Arabia’s top clerical body has renewed a 15-year-old edict that the Pokemon game franchise is un-Islamic. Having tumbled almost 13% overnight – after its meteoric ‘double’ in the last 8 days – it appears Nintendo’s new game is coming under increasing […]Read More