Legal matters

  • Farmers in California bracing for mass deportation

    Voters in California’s Central Valley, the agricultural center of the state, are grappling with the potential for mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump, which could gut their workforce. The Central Valley voted for Trump in November, a red bastion in a deep blue state, despite Trump’s vow to deport undocumented immigrants, which make up half…

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  • Property law in Nigeria: What a woman gets after divorce

    Activist lawyer, Madubuachi Idam, on Thursday said Nigerian laws frown at a woman getting 50 percent of her husband’s properties during divorce. Idam warned that women who push their husbands into court marriage with the intent of sharing his properties during divorce should know that such is alien to the Nigerian law. In a chat…

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  • President Bola Tinubu has reluctantly allowed a federal judge in the United States to give his university certificate to his political opponent Atiku Abubakar. But the Nigerian leader pleaded with Judge Nancy Maldonado to block all other details, especially the gender, and admission records, among others, of the person who owns the certificate from being disclosed.…

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