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China’s plunge protection team may be scrambling to prop up the Shanghai Composite for the duration of the People’s Congress, but the moment the NPC is over, the stock “market” goes with it, and the people know it. But now that China has its favorite bubble back – housing – few care: after all the […]Read More

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, dismissed the “no-case” submission brought by the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, who is standing trial on a 7-count charge bordering on illegal diversion of funds meant for the procurement of […]

Breaking VIDEO! Lekki Building Collapse (2016) VS Synagogue Building Collapse (2014) – SimonAtebaNews 2 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email On 8th March 2016, a five-storey building in Lekki, Lagos collapsed, causing the deaths of about 30 people. Almost immediately, structural failure was blamed as the cause of the collapse. The building fell to the side […]

Buhari Tells Zuma: “Your South African MTN Helped #BokoHaram Kill Thousands Of Nigerians” – SimonAtebaNews Buhari and Zuma in Abuja 2 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email President Jacob Zuma of South Africa had barely arrived Nigeria when President Muhammadu Buhari told him the failure by MTN,  South Africa’s telecommunications giant, to deactivate unregistered lines in Nigeria […]Read More

Teng Jiao Zhou emigrated to America in 1985 and applied to become a naturalized citizen in 1993. On the surface, it looked he was doing everything right: he attended his naturalization interview, filled out the Form N-400 paperwork, and passed his naturalization exam. But behind the scenes, Zhou had been convicted for robbery soon after […]

Get it together, Boalt. Thanks to your unruly deans, you’re now top of the law school charts, at least when it comes to your deans and sexual harassment scandals. The newest news of U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s handsy deans came on Tuesday, when an executive assistant sued Boalt Dean Sujit Choudhry for sexual harassment. […]Read More

Cyberwar and cybersecurity is getting to the point that it’s even scaring credit card companies, financial institutions, and government agencies. In the past, the problem just wasn’t expensive enough. Well, times they are a-changin’. Part of the problem, however, is that there’s a bit of a supply and demand mismatch. There are not enough lawyers […]Read More

Attorneys have been cloud-cautious for awhile, worried about potential breaches of confidential data and other legal considerations. But that hasn’t stopped them from jump onboard — and they lag well behind businesses generally. But it’s not just law firms who should think carefully about their cloud usage. According to a recent survey, 88 percent of […]

Since it’s launch in late 2013, the “email killer” platform Slack has done well for itself. It seems that in the time it takes you to blink, yet another several thousand users have been called over by the social-media/workplace platform’s siren call. But what about lawyers? Should attorneys acquiesce and join the movement? Or do […]Read More

Seriously angered by the unbundling, Tuesday evening, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) its workers, under the umbrella of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Wednesday shut down operations across the country. As a result most filling stations were shut down. […]

The House of Representatives on Wednesday nullified the impeachment of the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Momoh Lawal, by five lawmakers and also took over the running of the State House of Assembly until the crisis was resolved. The decision was taken at plenary where the federal lawmakers slammed the five […]

Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, The fiscal year for retailers ended in January with nothing like what it was supposed to be. Still, as always, the suggestions remained that a rebound in consumerism would be before too long. If it wasn’t to be evident right away in February, the start of the […]