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YEAR MALE  FEMALE 2010 4.7 5.6 2011 5.9 6.1 2012 9.9 11.2 2013 8.4 11.7 2014 Q1 6.6 9.2 2014 Q2 6.2 8.7 2014 Q3 8.1 11.4 2014 Q4 5.4 7.5 2015 Q1 6.3 8.9 2015 Q2 6.9 9.6 2015 Q3 8.3 11.6 2015 Q4 8.8 12.3 The post above and its ensuing comments, if […]Read More

The Senate, Wednesday passed the N6.08 trillion budget for 2016, with an unprecedented reduction in the budget’s total. Members of the red chamber passed N6, 060,677,358,227 trillion budget after considering its committee report on the budget. The total budget was however reduced from N6.07trn to N6.06trn: N351bn for statutory transfers, N1.4trn for debt service, N2.6trn […]Read More

The issue of baby Holden and his viral “dancing baby” is still kicking and making waves in the world of the fair-use debate. The ruling last year was technically a win for free-use proponents, but it could hardly have been called a knock out of the park. The Ninth Circuit recently revisited its ruling for […]

We knew it was coming and now it’s started. Ever since Justice Scalia’s sudden death in mid-February, the Supreme Court has been down a justice, evenly divided, four against four, between its more conservative and liberal wings. A deadlocked Court was inevitable and today the Court released its first equally divided ruling since Justice Scalia’s […]Read More

For the last few weeks, conflict between the iPhone maker and the FBI has been so heated that even people who know nothing about encryption (that’s most of us) have developed very spirited and views on the matter. In a somewhat odd twist, it looks like the FBI just took a breather and said, “Fine, […]

Things are looking up for the seven women who are suing Bill Cosby for defamation. Yesterday, Judge Anita Brody, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ruled that the women can have access to Andrea Constand’s case file. Constand, like the women here, had accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault. In 2006, she entered into a […]

Seven women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault could soon have access to files regarding Cosby’s confidential settlement with a prior accuser. A judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Bill Cosby’s motion to squash a subpoena for the case files from his suit and settlement with Andrea Constand. Constand entered into […]

This Tenth Circuit bank fraud ruling in US v. Marvin Iverson helps clarify the general trend in the circuit to treat banking documents and FDIC certificates as exemptable hearsay. In this case, the court found that a number of the hearsay exceptions allowed a key piece of evidence into the body of evidence. One of […]

If you wanted to transfer real property in England a thousand years ago, you would have to publicly present the buyer with a clod of dirt from the land, symbolizing the transfer of title, and record the exchange in the local shire-book or church-book. One thousand years later and the clod is gone, but the […]

Unless you file for an extension soon, your taxes for this year are coming up. If you’re a typical individual, you hate doing your taxes even more than you hate unclogging your drain. You know it has to be done, but you keep putting it off till the last minute. We suggest that your aversion […]

As the two-day retreat of the National Economic Council (NEC) ended on Tuesday, 71 things were proposed to boost the country’s Economy. Themed: ‘Nigerian States: Multiple Centres of Prosperity’, participants took decisions in the areas of agriculture, solid minerals, revenue generation and fiscal stability, infrastructure and services, investment, industrialisation and enabling monetary policies. Proposal were also […]Read More

Yesterday we were stunned when we learned that in order to support Ted Cruz and to “attack” Donald Trump, Liz Mair’s anti-Trump Make America Awesome super PAC launched a Facebook campaign which in addition to showcasing Mitt Romney’s support for Ted Cruz, emphasizing Trump’s past support for pro-choice policies, it also crossed the family line […]Read More