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Niger Delta Militant Group “Nigeria Delta Avengers” has issued a statement threatening to “take it to” Lagos and Abuja after bombing Chevron platforms. Sources inform us this was a brazen attack as terrorists have before now not been able to bomb develop the capacity to hit offshore (under water) platforms. According to Reuters who quoted […]

Fidelity Bank Plc held its AGM on Thursday 5th of May 2016 without its embattled Managing Director,  Nnamdi Okonkwo as he remained in EFCC custody. The CEO was remanded by the EFCC last week after he was suspected of being involved in a $115m money laundering scam involving former petroleum Minister Diezani Madueke. The bank […]

No one likes to be fired and few people like to fire others. But if the firing is tough, the resulting litigation can be tougher. For, as inevitable as terminations are in the business world, they’re also often fodder for lawsuits. As in-house counsel, you can have a role in reducing firing-related litigation and making […]

We cannot overemphasize enough the significance of recent changes in both the legal profession and law school education. Between major advances in legal tech and the 2008 recession, it is not the best time to be a young lawyer. Some of the new realities have hit many law schools hard, which has forced them (and […]

Blockchain technology creates a virtually incorruptible, dispersed database of all transactions in a network. It’s the technology that helped make Bitcoin a (relative) success, but it’s often hailed as a potentially transformative technology in finance, business, and the law. There are contracts that use the blockchain, for example. There may one day even be entire […]

Despite predictable resistance and noise from the tobacco industry, the California legislature overwhelmingly passed a pair of bills that raised the smoking age from 18 to 21 throughout the state and broadened regulation of vaping, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco-related products. Governor Brown signed the legislation without comment and without delay. Public health advocates have generally […]

The technology startup world is known for being male-dominated. A survey by TechCrunch found that in 2014, only 18 percent of startups had a female founder, up from less than 10 percent in 2009. One law firm is trying to change that — and not by filing a series of gender discrimination lawsuits, either. Perkins […]

The Senate has recommended that the funding of security agencies be taken as a priority, bearing in mind that the practice of envelop budgetary for security agencies had proved ineffective, adding that efforts should be put in place to create employment opportunities for the nation’s teaming unemployed youths. It also agreed that security agencies should […]

A coalition of some civil society groups, the minority interest rights advocates in Nigeria (MIRAN) have called on the federal and states governments of Benue and Nassarawa to immediately constitute an all-inclusive panel of inquires in their respective states on the Agatu massacre and bring the sponsors and perpetrators of the heinous crimes against humanity to justice. The group […]Read More

Resident doctors at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have embarked on a three-day warning strike to protest irregularities in the payment of their salaries. The President, Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, Dr. Okoye Chukwunonso, said on Thursday that they (doctors) had been receiving only 48 per cent of their salaries for the past four […]

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said that he respected every past and present presidents irrespective of the population of the countries or where they governed when he was at the helm of Nigeria’s affairs. Obasanjo who also condemned what he described as “the rivalry for supremacy among Yoruba monarchs’’, said this when the new Olubadan […]Read More

Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, Thursday, explained his role and why he leaked a letter by former governor the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, detailing how $49 billion of oil revenue had been diverted. Amaechi, who made the disclosure in a letter issued by his office […]