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A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Amina Adamu Augie, has lamented the indecent dressing among female lawyers in the country, Nigerian Tribune is reporting.
Justice Augie, while speaking on Friday, in Abuja at an event organised by the Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum (NBA-WF) Abuja chapter, with the theme: “Indecent Dressing: Its Effect on Female Lawyers Dress Code”, called on lawyers to see themselves as an important part of somebody else’s life.
To her, lawyers should dress in a way that inspires confidence because lawyers are supposed to be presentable when they are representing their clients. She said, “When you come before me as a lawyer and you are not properly dressed, no one will tell you to dress well by the time you are appearing before me again because I will not give you audience and I will also talk to your Principal, why he allowed you to leave the Chambers without being properly dressed.
As a lawyer, you need to know who you are because it is when you identify who you are that you will be able to instill confidence in others and your client. No lawyer dress indecently in my court that I spare. As a lawyer, we should be disciplined, so that when you say you are a lawyer, you are able to instill confidence in others so that when you speak, they will listen to you”, she said.
In his remarks, former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in Sokoto state, Dr. Suleiman Usman, SAN, said no lawyer who is indecently dressed should be given audience in court.
According to him, a lawyer that is indecently dressed in court is setting bad precedence for those coming behind. “To be properly dressed as a lawyer is very important because it says a lot about who you are. It could lead to disciplinary action because bad conduct of any lawyer could rub off on others.For a lawyer to be respected and win the confidence and trust of his client, he must present himself in a decent manner”, he said.
A member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Bar Association Women Forum, Hajia Mohammed Adama, in her speech, called on parents to be good examples to their daughters. According to her, as lawyers and mothers, the forum is expected to instill good values in the younger ones. We are lawyers and we impact positively society and society looks up to us as well, so, we must conduct ourselves in a a manner that is acceptable, including our dress. You will agree with me that with what you see on the internet daily, our societal value is eroding and we cannot allow that to creep into the legal profession. The legal profession is a noble one and we cannot allow indecent dressing to impact negatively on the good name that, the profession earned many years ago,” Adama said.
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A defective update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike (CRWD) caused a global outage Friday in Microsoft’s (MSFT) platforms, affecting a wide range of organizations and businesses, including airlines, banks, the London Stock Exchange, media outlets, government agencies, and others.
CrowdStrike said it identified the source of the issue and a fix has been deployed, though some businesses are still dealing with the effects of the outage, sending shares of CrowdStrike plummeting over 10% in early trading Friday.
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides security software to customers and partners including many cloud platforms used by organizations globally. Major cloud platform providers partnered with CrowdStrike include Microsoft Azure, Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google Cloud, and Amazon's (AMZN) Amazon Web Services (AWS).
These cloud platforms are also used by businesses across industries, from healthcare to financial services, telecommunications, media, and more, extending the reach of CrowdStrike's update defect. Microsoft Azure alone serves 95% of Fortune 500 companies.
A CrowdStrike update defect caused an outage affecting customers using Windows, Microsoft's operating system, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said around 5:45 a.m. ET Friday. The issue led to disruptions across industries, due to the wide reach of CrowdStrike's customer base.
There was a spike in outages with Microsoft services like Xbox Live, Microsoft 365, and Teams, according to DownDetector. Some businesses affected included major banks like Bank of America (BAC), social media companies such as Meta (META), and others.
Several airports grounded flights, impacting airlines like Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), and American Airlines (AAL), among others. The outage also affected government agencies like the U.K.'s National Health Service.
CrowdStrike said a fix has been deployed and Microsoft reported that some Azure users have recovered, while others are still dealing with the effects of the outage.
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DJ Cuppy is under fir£ for asking God to shower his blessings on her.
She was asked what about the one of her family?
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Microsoft (MSFT) shares fell in premarket trading on Friday after the tech giant suffered a major cloud services outage, linked to an system update by cybersecurity software firm CrowdStrike (CRWD), that affected banks, airlines, media outlets and companies around the globe.
Below, we’ll take a closer look at Microsoft’s chart and turn to technical analysis to identify important levels that may come into play in upcoming trading sessions.
Microsoft shares have remained in a long-term uptrend since the 50-day moving average (MA) crossed above the 200-day MA in March last year to generate a golden cross buy signal.
However, after climbing to a record high earlier this month, the shares have undergone a retracement of around 6% as investors book gains, potentially rotating some of the profits into small-cap stocks.
If the selling continues, investors should watch four key areas where Microsoft shares may find support.
An initial area to keep an eye on sits just below the current price and 50-day MA around $430, a location that may attract buying interest near several price peaks that formed on the chart between March and May.
A move below this level could see the shares test the $410 level, where they may encounter support from a horizontal line cutting through a range of similar prices from January to May.
Further selling may spark a fall to the $385 area, where the stock could attract a flurry of buy orders around the November 2023 swing high.
Finally, a deeper pullback in Microsoft shares could see the price revisit $367 near a lower trendline connecting the July 2023 swing high and a period of narrow consolidation between December 2023 and January this year.
If Microsoft shares find support around the $430 area and the uptrend resumes, investors can use a bars pattern to forecast a possible price target. To do this, we extract the trending move from June to early July and apply it to the first horizontal line on the chart. Doing so predicts a target of around $490.
Microsoft shares were down 1.4% at $434.40 about two hours before Friday's opening bell.
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Three muslim clerics who are identified as Aliyu Musa, Aliyu Taiye, and Wasiu Babatunde, were arrested for allegedly exhuming the c@rps£ of a one-year-old boy identified as Taiwo Bisiriyu and thereafter using it for rit¥al in Omi-ifon in Odigbo LGA, Ondo State
Taiwo d+ed on Friday, July 5, 2024, and was buried the same day, while the clerics officiated at the burial. However, the incident happened on Tuesday, July 9, 2024
According to some residents, some of the items allegedly found in the clerics’ homes, included a pestle and a mortal, concoction, sponge, and black pot, among others.
The deceased’s guardian identified as Risikat Bisiriyu said, “The boy was ill and I took him to a Maternity Centre for treatment. He was later referred to the General Hospital in Ore. But on getting there, the boy d+ed.
Since we are Muslims by religion, we decided to bury the boy the same day, and we invited the clerics to officiate.
When we got to where the boy would be buried, one of the clerics who carried the c@rps£ went far into the bush to bury him. But the younger brother of the deceased’s father insisted he should bury the child at a particular place, not far inside the bush.
The child d+ed on Friday. So, on Monday, around 10 am, we were sitting outside the house, when the wife of one of the clerics came and told us that she didn’t know what her husband brought into the house that was smelling. But we paid no attention to what she said
About 11pm on Monday, we began to hear the cleric pounding some things till 4.30am. I jokingly said only God knows what he was pounding all through the night that disturbed our sleep. [Continue reading on next slide]
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Loans that provide workers an advance on their paychecks could face more regulations under a new proposal.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule Thursday that would require paycheck advance products to present more accurate and additional disclosures about fees associated with that type of loan.
Employers sometimes partner with companies that will provide a loan for the size of a worker's upcoming paycheck. The worker will typically incur payroll deductions if they do not repay the loan and fees. Direct-to-consumer versions of this loan offer funds in advance to workers who then incur fees that are taken directly from their bank account.
The use of these loans has grown in recent years, as more than $22 billion was borrowed in 2022 by workers who needed an advance to cover expenses, according to the latest data from the CFPB.
The typical annual percentage rate for employer-partnered loans was 109.5%, the CFPB found.
If adopted, the new rule would provide borrowers with a greater understanding of what fees are incurred with this type of loan.
“Paycheck advance products are often marketed to and designed for employers, rather than employees,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a press release. “The CFPB's actions will help workers know what they are getting with these products and prevent race-to-the-bottom business practices.”
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