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Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, The sorts of predicaments the world faces — ranging from over $200 trillion in debt, to our unsustainable addiction to fossil fuels, to our over-stressed ecosystems — all require that we get deadly serious about confronting them ASAP, and make difficult decisions and trade-offs. However, our global leaders always […]

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), a federal government agency with a mandate to ensure transparency and accountability as well as expose corruption in the oil and gas industry, but with no power to prosecute, has gone to the country’s anti-corruption body to “borrow teeth” and “bite” those who plunder Nigeria’s mineral resources. The Director of […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari is using a corrupt anti-corruption agency to fight corruption, Governor Ayodele Fayose said on Wednesday, calling on the President to begin his anti-graft war within his party and close aides “since charity begins at home”. Mr. Fayose called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to stop media trial […]

Note: “Buy” refers to the rate you pay if you want to buy forex. “Sell” is the rate that you sell to parallel market operators. Our rates are obtained from black market operators on the mainland and the island of Lagos. We prefer to publish the higher of the two. Dollars Buy   – N352 […]

Discovery’s Shark Week 2016 ended this weekend, taking with it hours of great white attacks, hammerhead attacks, and the rare bull shark-on-crocodile attack. And if you found yourself rooting for the shark in every attack, well, we understand you. But while our sea-bound friends might be gone for the summer (from TV at least), there […]

Think the Supreme Court is too staid for hipsters? Think again. Ever since Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes grew out a killer ‘stache, the Court has been home to secret hipsters, and every Court has had its most hipster justice. Justice George Sutherland sported a beard that would put most Brooklynites to shame, for example, and […]

California’s Supreme Court recently announced an amendment to the California Rules of Court. Beginning July 1, 2016, published Court of Appeal decisions will no longer automatically “depublish” when the California Supreme Court grants review. The main impetus behind the move was to respect the opinions and wishes of jurists and lawyers throughout the state who […]

It might be time to tap the breaks on the push for self-driving cars. Last Wednesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into what could be the first fatality caused by a self-driving car: the death of Joshua Brown last May, who was killed after his self-driving Tesla collided with a tractor-trailer. […]

Feel like you’re reinventing the wheel every time you draft a contract? Do you wish you could get more done with the work you already have? You’re not alone. For plenty of in-house lawyers, writing and rewriting legal agreements becomes a bit of Sisyphean task after a while; the mountain is the same, the rock […]

Taking a look at Money Inc.’s list of the richest lawyers in the world, you may notice something quite interesting. Did you know that some of America’s wealthiest lawyers were either indicted or convicted of some pretty hefty crimes? $1.7 Billion and a Criminal Record Let’s focus on the three richest lawyers in the world. […]Read More

Self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles, high-tech Roombas — call them what you may, but they’re becoming increasingly visible on our roads, in our headlines, and, perhaps soon, in court rooms. And self-driving vehicles aren’t just for techno futurists in Silicon Valley anymore; even the federal government and major Detroit automakers are on board. But as the […]

When it comes to practicing in-house, attorneys occupy a unique position. Their duty is to their client, the company, but they are also bound by ethical responsibilities more so than other employees. And how in-house attorneys respond to ethical dilemmas depends on a variety of factors, from their own personal ethical standards to the infrastructure […]