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The National spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday April 11, 2016, again attempted to throw another spanner in the wheel of justice at his ongoing trial before Justice E. O Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on the seven count charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial […]

China is said to have offered Nigeria a loan worth $6 billion to help fund infrastructure projects. President Buhari is currently on a visit to China in part to help solicit funding for its N6 trillion budget which it needs to finance with foreign debts of about N900b ($4.5b using exchange rate of N200/$1). According […]

If you’re a millennial lawyer, you most likely spent your entire academic career taking notes in class using your computer. But according to research conducted by UCLA and Princeton, you weren’t doing yourself any favors. Looks like new news is old news. The research suggested that those students who took notes by longhand actually learned […]

The legal industry isn’t winning any awards for diversity. After all, law is one of the whitest, malest professions in America. And the industry has been stubbornly slow to evolve. The number of women and minorities in the law has barely changed over the past 15 years, for example. That’s probably why law firms have […]

Privacy and data security are some of the most significant emerging legal issues of our day. (If you don’t believe us, check out the continued fallout from the Panama Papers, or the OPM hack, or the billions of dollars spent on corporate cyber insurance policies.) And when it comes to dealing with privacy and data […]

When the ride-hailing company Lyft agreed to settle a proposed class action with its drivers, commentators noted that the tech company was getting off easy. For $12.5 million and some small concessions that did not include classifying drivers as employees, Lyft could have escaped a major challenge to its business model. Except, just a few […]

Merrick Garland isn’t just President Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court; he’s one of the Court’s most successful feeder judges, sending 42 of his clerks on to Supreme Court clerkships. That’s more than half of the 71 clerks Garland has had since joining the federal bench in 1997. And even […]Read More

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. What are we going to do about climate change? Can government get the job done to protect us? Well, some children do not believe so, and they have taken the matter to federal court. Indeed, a federal magistrate […]

Law practice today isn’t the same as it was a generation or two ago. Attorneys in the modern law office are more likely than ever to rely on technology, innovative marketing, or alternative practice structures. At the same time, some things remain constant, especially the need for competent attorneys, stellar support staff, and effective management. […]

When Dauda Yama retrieved his mobile phone from a neighbour’s house in January this year, he noticed a missed call from his daughter Saratu who had been missing for almost two years. The last time he spoke with Saratu was on April 14, 2014, when she rang to say men from the Islamist group Boko […]

Elder brother of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria otherwise known as Shiite group,  Muhammad Sani Yaqoob, yesterday said he is very happy with the actions taken by the Nigerian Army in the last December clash between the Army and the Shi’ites in Zaria. Muhammad Sani Yaqoob, made the submission at the ongoing […]

Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Monday triumphed at the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) court in the first leg of his court action challenging his alleged unlawful arrest and detention since December last year by the Nigerian government. Against the objection of government, the court ruled in Abuja that it has […]