How to get a Nigerian passport within one week without paying a bribe

By Joe Abah Until August 2017, I was the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), with the daunting task of reforming Nigeria’s Federal Public Service. As part of that role, I sought to move the focus of Public Service Reforms away from the Public Service unto the public. This was a deliberate…

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Tech law

Superior court judge who suspected DA hacked her computer is charged with computer trespassing

By Debra Cassens Weiss A superior court judge in Gwinnett County, Georgia, has been indicted on three counts of computer trespass for allegedly allowing outsiders to access the county computer system, reportedly to investigate whether the district attorney had hacked her computer. Judge Kathryn Schrader was indicted Wednesday along with a private investigator and two…

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Opinion

The dangers of repudiating history

By Chris Akor had decided to write on the trampling of the rule of law by the Buhari government. But just as I started, I chanced upon this article I wrote last year. It captured exactly everything I wanted to say. I reproduce it again with minor modifications. This article was first published August 30th 2018.…

October 3, 20190Comments

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Tech law

Exploring new frontiers in research for the legal industry

By Jason Tashea It’s been a surprise to legal tech blogger Bob Ambrogi that legal research has become a hotbed of new entrants with novel approaches to legal research. “If five years ago you had said to me, ‘What’s one area of technology that going to see a significant degree of innovation over the next…

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Tech law

Why scraping publicly available information online isn’t a crime

BY Jason Tashea Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco took a stand for an open internet. A three-judge panel found that automated searching of a public website, also called web scraping, is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the country’s main anti-hacking law. At issue was…

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spotlight

How to prepare yourself and your clients to respond to data breaches

BY James M. Davis AND Bradley H. Dlatt Data breaches are everywhere, and they are expensive. In the first six months of 2019, there were more than 3,800 reported data breaches—a 54% increase from the same period last year—exposing more than 4.1 billion records. The average reported cost of a data breach for an American…

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Opinion

Sex, Food and Dating—The (Other) News This Week

I know I should be poring over that whistleblower's complaint. But instead, let me give you something that's much more invigorating: news and gossip you definitely do not need. By Vivia Chen I don’t know about you, but I am at a saturation point with news about our Dear Leader and his dealings…

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News

Melinda Gates: Here’s Why I’m Committing $1 Billion to Promote Gender Equality

By Melinda Gates In 2018, there were more men named James running Fortune 500 companies than there were women. This year, only one CEO on that list of 500 is a woman of color. Women are 51 percent of the population but hold only 24 percent of the seats in Congress. My reaction to facts like these is a…

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Features

The first black Professor honoured with a portrait at St. Peter’s College, Oxford University is a Nigerian

UK-based Nigerian professor of public international law, Dapo Akande has been honoured with a portrait at St Peter’s College, Oxford University. Akande will be the first black professor to stand gallantly in the halls of the college located in the prestigious and current world’s number University The 46-year-old educator has spent most of his adult…

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Features

The Nigerian professor who heads a US hospital and institute

Philip O. Ozuah, a Nigerian by birth, is one of the very recognised doctors in the US and as well an academic- Ozuah got his first degree in medicine from University of Ibadan before he went to South California to bag his Masters- The Nigerian doctor has gotten many awards for his exceptional services, one…

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