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While Donald Trump campaigns to ‘make America great again,’ the Atlantic City casinos bearing his name have been doing anything but great. Trump casinos, hotels, and resorts have filed for bankruptcy no less than four times. The Trump Taj Mahal Casino first went into Chapter 11 in 1991, then again in September of 2014. That […]

A Maine Social Worker got an earlier Summary Judgment against her vacated by the First Circuit’s Court of Appeals because of an understandable but erroneous reading of a key case. We ask you: if your work is “excellent” and “very [good],” but you’re fired soon after you blow the whistle — is there a casual […]Read More

Only a few years ago, regular employees yearned to live the dream of working from home. Taking away the hours spent commuting and the dreary environment of the modern office, and life would be perfect! As everyone knows, reality and fantasy don’t usually overlap. Wondering why you’re not being more productive working from home? Hint: […]

Forget Atticus Finch, the Supreme Court, or BigLaw partner paychecks. We’ve got a new source of legal inspiration for you: Dolly Parton. And by inspiration, we’re not talking about humming along to ‘Jolene’ as you type up a memo, either. There’s actually a lot to learn from the endless career of one of country music’s […]Read More

Azura Power Holdings Ltd, a Nigerian company, with an ambition to provide electricity to millions of people across Africa has said that it had raised $876 million for its power plant in Edo state, and that construction was set to commence. According to reuters, Azura, along with its founder and majority shareholder Amaya Capital, said […]

The DAVOS 2016 is ongoing and Over 40 heads of state and government, as well as 2,500 leaders from business and society will convene at the 46th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, from 20 to 23 January in Davos-Klosters,Switzerland, under the theme, Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Critical current challenges, such as security, climate change […]

The Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), has said that two companies, Trafigura and Duke Oil, lifted $24 billion worth of crude oil out of the country before formal contracts were signed. An investigation by the House of Representatives into the controversial oil swap deals, covering the period of 2010 to 2015 revealed this. The […]

The corruption board of Cameroon has claimed that MTN and France’s Orange Telecoms owes it nearly 100 billion CFA francs ($166 million) in taxes, including on games. According the reports from the media, the corruption body found that taxes totaling 176 billion CFA francs had gone unpaid from various companies. Reuters reports majority of that […]

Skye Bank has revealed that it is seeking to raise fresh capital in the first quarter of 2016 in a bid to shore up its capital base. This was disclosed by the company’s  Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, Mr. Timothy Oguntayo at an at an interactive session with top stockbrokers in Lagos […]

Green Africa Airways, a new airline start‐up founded in Lagos, has been granted an air transport license by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. According to the founder and CEO of the Startup, Mr Afolabi Babawande. “We are really thrilled about the approval of our license. This new development hopefully puts us further along in our […]

The 2016 Federal Budget has its many flaws which has been reported widely on social media, blogs and in the press. However, the people whose analysis matter the most are the members of the National Assembly. After the hullabaloo of the budget getting missing, changed and replaced Legislators are now debating the budget in both […]

I like to think of crowdfunding as a social form of IPO (initial public offering). In the traditional IPO, you take a business to the public in order to raise funds for it by selling part of the business to the public. The same thing sort of happens in crowdfunding—you go to the public to […]