Day: June 24, 2017

Nigerian senior lawyer striped of SAN title

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A senior lawyer, B.I Nwofor has been striped of his Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, title by Nigeria’s Legal Practitioners Privilege committee. The decision was taken at the committee’s 126th general meeting held on June 22 and was contained in a letter from the privileges committee signed by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Ahmed Salleh.  It said, “The legal practitioner’s privileges committee at its 126th General meeting held on June 22nd 2017, considered extensively the complaint filled by the court of appeal of Nigeria against B. E .…

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Google begins removing personal medical records from search results

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Google has removed private medical records from its search results, Bloomberg reports, after quietly changing its policy on content removal. On Thursday, the company’s search policy was amended to include “confidential, personal medical records of private people” under a list of content it may remove from search results. Although Google has historically been reluctant to intervene with its search algorithms, it has banned some confidential material from appearing in results, such as credit card numbers, bank account information, and social security numbers. In 2015, the company began removing revenge porn…

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It’s a happy 30th birthday for Messi who knows prizes twinkle in the Premier League

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As Barcelona and Argentina superstar Lionel Messi enters his fourth decade, one question remains: what else is there for him to win at club level? The bantam boy from Rosario has developed into one of football’s greatest ever players and achievers, tearing up the record books with his 500 goals for and 17 major trophies with Barca. While contemporaries and past greats can boast similar records, we must remember that in Messi’s case, all this has been accomplished before the age of 30 – a milestone he reaches today. Messi…

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Supreme Court Sacks Senator Abubakar, Hembe

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• Orders duo to refund two years salaries and allowances within 90 Days • Tambuwal’s election affirmed The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Senator representing Taraba North, Alhaji Sani Danladi and a member of the House of Representatives, Herman Hembe to vacate their seats at the National Assembly with immediate effect. The apex court ordered them to refund all salaries and allowances they so far received since they were inaugurated into the 8th National Assembly within 90 days. The court also ordered that Shuaibu Isa Lau, be sworn in as the…

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