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Banks operating in Nigeria have decided to reduce the number of loan grants available to their customers for the year 2016, as a result of high non-performance loans propelled by the economic challenges in the nation. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Eco bank Transnational Incorporated, Ade Ayeyemi declared that Eco bank expects flat revenue this year, […]

Director General, National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN), Engr. Reuben Okeke, said the country needs 17,440 technical staff including 6,000 engineers to sustain the planned 40,000 megawatts in the nearest future. Okeke who spoke yesterday in Abuja,called for more support to expand the institute’s capacity. He went further to admonish the Federal Government to […]Read More

THE Public Relations Officer of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigerian Customs Service, Chris Osunkwo, on Tuesday disclosed that the command had a fall in revenue of N2.7bn in the first quarter of 2016, compared to N61.6bn it made in the first quarter of 2015. Osunkwo said that the command made seizures of 60 […]

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday, announced that government has discovered 37,395 ghost workers on the Federal Civil Service payroll and as a result, the Federal Government lost about N1 billion. Magu made this revelation at an anti-corruption sensitisation programme organised by the commission for staff of […]

When it comes to patents and intellectual property, the techies down in Silicon Valley often repeat a familiar mantra: patents are anticompetitive, anti-innovation, just plain bad. But that simplistic outlook was challenged, a bit, in a recent talk by Ted Ullyot, former general counsel for Facebook. In a presentation entitled “Innovation, Disruption and Intellectual Property: […]

When Kevin Dixon entered into Cook County Jail in Illinois, he probably didn’t know that the persistent pain in his back and abdomen was cancer. Neither did his jailers. A mere four months later, he was dead. The subsequent wrongful death lawsuit was recently decided by the Seventh Circuit. Kevin Dixon’s Quick Deterioration The decedent […]

University of Denver’s Law School will be getting a new dean this July, Mr. Bruce P. Smith. Mr. Smith will be moving to Sturm from U. of Illinois where he served a dean from 2009 to 2016 and has much private sector business experience as a lawyer for the NFL. On the top of Smith’s […]

Consider it a silver lining: even if your law license is suspended and you’re so broke former clients are now your creditors, you can still discharge that client debt in bankruptcy. That’s the conclusion of the Ninth Circuit, which ruled last Thursday that a suspended California lawyer could discharge in bankruptcy the $6,000 she owed […]Read More

A woman who operated an illegal marijuana farm in the northeastern United States is apparently guilty of a crime of illegally growing pot, but not for aiding and abetting, according to the First Circuit. The federal appeals court determined that a jury should not have been allowed to convict Darlene Ford for letting her husband […]

If you’re an attorney (or anyone) using Windows, computer security experts have an urgent message for you: uninstall QuickTime, immediately. That’s because the Window’s version of QuickTime, the multimedia program found on most computers, is no longer supported by Apple, its maker. That means the software will still work, but there will be no more […]Read More

If you want to succeed as an attorney, networking is key. Create some valuable connections with other attorneys, and you’ve got someone to bounce ideas off of, refer clients to, and be referred to in return. Network with the public and you can make important client contacts, or simply improve your reputation in the community. […]

About 92 armed herdsmen have been arrested by soldiers at a military checkpoints in Abuja. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations of the Guards Brigade, Capt. Bashir Jajira, said that 36 of the suspects were arrested on their way to Nasarawa State. The suspected herdsmen were said to have told the soldiers that they were […]