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Daily Post Nigeria Published “What, then, does it take to be a corporate leader in the 2020s? Every firm is different, but those hiring a CEO, or aspiring to be one, should prize a few qualities. Mastering the tricky, creative and more collaborative game of allocating intangible capital is essential. A CEO must be able to marshal the data flowing between companies and their counterparties, redistributing who earns profits and bear risk”(The Economist, February 8th-14th 2020). That was the p...

Kebbi State governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu has signed a law that prescribes the death penalty for convicted kidnappers. A statement by the Kebbi Government House on Thursday, January 28, 2021 said the governor assented the Model Penal Code 2021 to address the spate of kidnapping. The states Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Rahmatu Adamu Gulma, said kidnapping will be tried under Section 247 which specifies the death sentence. Rape cases are also to be tried under Section 259 sub-...

TODAY January 29, 2021 Kebbi State governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu has signed a law that prescribes the death penalty for convicted kidnappers. A statement by the Kebbi Government House on Thursday, January 28, 2021 said the governor assented the Model Penal Code 2021 to address the spate of kidnapping. The state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Rahmatu Adamu Gulma, said kidnapping will be tried under Section 247 which specifies the death sentence. Rape cases are also to be t...

Listen to Part 1 of this audio verison. The ACLU of Idaho filed the suit last year on behalf of two men convicted under the “infamous crime against nature” law, or one similar to it in another state, who want to scrub it from state code entirely. Idaho’s law criminalizes anal and oral sex – historically including consensual sex – since even before the state’s founding. As of December, 41 people were forced to register as a sex offender in Idaho for committing an “infamous crime ag...

An awesome reading list on "Second Look Sentencing" Greg Newburn has created this terrific new posting under the title "Second Look Sentencing: A (Running) Reading List for Legislators, Staff, Advocates, and Everyone Else." I highly recommend all the items linked in this great reading list, and here is the posts preface to the list: The idea of “Second Look” sentencing — that the law should allow some mechanism by which institutional actors can legally revisit sentences to ensure they rem...

Particularly when theres a brutal act like this one. its 10 in wisconsin. >> do you think there is a possibility of an insanity defense here considering this is a fictional character? >> it is interesting you ask that question. wisconsin, as harsh as they are in terms of criminal responsibility age of age 10, they have sort of an easy insanity law called the model penal code law and it says if you have a mental disease and that affects and creates inability really to tell the difference between ...