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Gold is having one of its best starts to a year in history as investors start to lose faith in central bankers’ ability to deal with economic challenges. Fed skeptics as well as capitulating bullion bears are being drawn to the precious metals as Bloomberg reports, “The safe-haven demand appears to be where people are […]

One look at Japan’s bond yields, which moments ago hit a fresh record low for the 20Y maturity as the curve slowly but surely inverts… …. and one would think Haruhiko Kuroda would be delighted. After all, when he launched NIRP three weeks ago, a world in which negative rates are now a reality, it […]

The way Buhari is going it’s like all of us will die so that naira will live – M The rapid deterioration in the naira at the parallel market is popping up on screens and discussion boards everywhere. Individuals are deciding whether to jump into the dollarization band wagon or remain ‘fencist’. For businesses, the […]

We all need help sometimes, especially in the beginning. Other more experienced lawyers seem like an obvious choice. But at what point does asking for another attorney’s help become total dependence on that other lawyer? Just keep a few things you mind. Ask For Another Lawyer’s Help When: You Don’t Know the Procedure: It’s a […]Read More

Like it or not, the cloud is coming and it looks like its here to stay. According to a survey-slash-white-paper by AriKaplan Advisors, law firms and in-house legal departments are slowly but surely adopting more cloud based computing into their business models. Now at least 84 percent of respondents are open to the cloud. This […]

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly common in the legal world. A recent survey found that 68 percent of corporate legal departments are using cloud-based tools, with 80 percent open to adopting more in the next year. The cloud is becoming increasingly popular among private firms as well, with almost a third of attorneys turning to […]

Nigerian stocks ended on a positive today, as the All Share Index (ASI) was up 0.85% to close at 24,261.69, after declining by 1.87% yesterday. Banking stocks were the most traded, as a total of six banks (Zenith bank, UBA, Access,FBNH, Diamond, FCMB) ended up in the top 10 most traded stocks. Here are the […]Read More

Integrated Oil & Gas Ltd. a privately owned indigenous company, which deals in the provision of refined petroluem products, plans to build a 20,000 capacity modular refinery in Lagos. According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho, the company has been given initial license and preliminary approval by the Department of Petroleum Resources […]

Japanese automotive manufacturer Toyota on Thursday, said it is recalling nearly 2.9 million sports utility vehicles (SUVs) globally because of seat belts that might fail in a crash. Among the recalled are RAV4 SUVS from the 2005 through 2014 model years, the RAV4 electric vehicle from 2012 through 2014 as well as those between October […]

The World Bank has announced that it will partner with the Federal Government by setting aside N1.9 billion ($100 million) to tackle girl-child education in the northern part of the country. The Debt Management Office (DMO), revealed earlier this week, that the exposure to the countries World Bank loans has increased by $2.35bn (59.64%) in […]

Tim Cook, CEO and leader of Apple, has drawn a line in the sand, declaring that his company does not have and ought not create a skeleton key that would give the company access to iPhones. There has been mounting pressure by law enforcement for the giant tech companies to create such a mechanism because […]

As the world remembers Justice Scalia this week, plenty of attention has been given to his role as the Supreme Court’s conservative leader, originalism’s most successful advocate, or even the bench’s most sarcastic judge. But many of the retrospectives miss a major part of Justice Scalia’s life: his time as a law professor. Justice Scalia […]Read More