An independent arbiter, known as a special master, appointed to examine the contents of classified documents seized by the FBI from ex-President Donald Trump’s Florida estate last month will hold the first hearing on Tuesday, according to a court filing.
Lawyers should submit agenda items by close of business on Monday, Special Master Raymond Dearie – appointed this week- said in the document.
Ogbunike Caves are situated in a valley with tropical rain forest behind the “Ogba” hills in which lies St. Monica College, Ogbunike.
Descending into the valley where the caves are located is a lengthy walkway made up of about 317 steps said to have been constructed by the South-East Anambra State Government in the mid 90s.
At the end of the walkway is an open space used as a reception point where visitors are by tradition to remove their shoes.
The main cave consists of a massive structure with a big open chamber of about 5m high, 10m wide and 30m long at the entrance.
There are ten tunnels at the main chamber leading to different directions. Within the tunnels are big chambers and other tunnels of varying lengths, some of which are inter connected.
The caves are occupied by a large colony of bats of various sizes. There are streams and body of water at various places.
A stream flows out from one of the tunnels into a rapid flowing river (River Nkissa). At the meeting point of the river and the stream one can feel the warm water from the caves and the cold river water.
Beside this portion of the river is a table land of about 5 X 5 square meters used as a relaxation spot by visitors to the caves.
The immediate environment of the caves up to about 200 meters radius is a thick tropical rainforest type of vegetation. Among the fauna of the site are deer, antelope, grass cutter, porcupine, rabbit, alligator, snakes and frogs. Others are fish, crabs and birds.
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Ogbunike caves are associated with living traditions and are said to be used by the people for many centuries. The site still retains its historical and spiritual significance.
There is an annual festival called “Ime Ogbe” celebrated in commemoration of the discovery of the caves. The biodiversity of the site has remained almost in tact. The integrity of the site can be attested to by the presence of the primary forests around the caves.
The Nkisa River flows by the side of the caves into which the water that drains from the caves empties itself. At that point, where the difference in temperature is felt between the river and the water from the rock.
The Ogbunike caves like the ancient cave temple of Arochukwu in Abia State of Nigeria were a symbol of justice.
Ogbunike caves have attractive waterfall at the North West part of the cave that could compare to Kalambo falls in East Africa.
The caves are believed to have been in existence for centuries with minimal defacement. The caves occupy a large expanse of area.
Behind Ogba hills in Ogbunike LGA in Anambra is a cave that has served for years as an escape, hideout and also was a place of refuge during the Nigerian Civil War.
There are about 317 steps that lead into the tunnel. At the entrance, visitors must take off their shoes and also women during their period are not allowed to go in.
About ten tunnels lead into the main chamber of the cave; the main cave consists of a massive structure with a big open chamber of about 5m high, 10m wide and 30m long at the entrance.
The entire site is within ranges of undulating hills and valleys which stretch across other communities and farmlands.
The site has sufficient boundaries (20 hectares) to protect its values from direct effects of human encroachment.
How about a visit to the Western Wall from the comfort of your home? It’s Technology-Meets-Real-Estate.
A Virtual Reality Experience will allow you to take a tour of jerusalem’s holiest sites from wherever you are.
Israeli-Canadian company Blimey has developed a new tool that offers people an immersive glimpse of the holy sites from anywhere in the world.
Virtual tourists can visit the Western Wall, which is a remnant of an ancient Jewish temple.
They can even join the lively Holy Fire ceremony at the Holy Sepulchre, revered as Jesus’ burial site.
Participants can also join a game in which they interact with others and perform tasks – like opening doors, laying a hand on Jesus’ Tomb and placing a prayer note at the Western Wall.
Blimey CEO Nimrod Shanit hopes the technology can be a bridge between cultures.
“As a child I remember walking inside the Dome of the Rock or visiting the entire Temple Mount as it’s called in Hebrew. So, I felt that for me it’s important for others to be able to engage in the same freedom and have the same ability that I had as a child.”
“In every project that I do, the purpose is to be able to give people the opportunity to understand and put prejudice aside and be able to communicate with others without any bias.”
The VR tour and game feature are a mixture of 360-degree videos and models made from 3D scanning, which are meant to give the participant a sense of engagement.
Travelers can teleport themselves into the holy sites, explore Jerusalem and even engage with locals in the form of 3D holograms.
Blimey’s art director Oury Atlan.
“As a French guy I had the opportunity to come to Israel only when I was 15 and then after, 10 years later to do Aliyah, meaning I didn’t have a chance to go see the Western Wall for a long time and this game is an amazing opportunity for people that cannot come right away to be there and to feel it and to have an opportunity to almost touch the walls.”
Blimey’s technology is also incorporated and being used in museum spaces around the world.
Shanit says heritage sites and museums must offer elements of interaction, in order to attract young audiences who are using technology in their everyday life.
“It is important to understand that it’s simply a tool, the means for people to be able to understand and be able to communicate better and as long as we can create this opportunity, as long as we can be able to interact and understand the world better, I think we will only improve who we are and allow our next generation to do much better in this world.”
An enormous fire has engulfed a skyscraper in the Chinese city of Changsha, state media reports.
Footage posted on social media showed massive flames racing up the 42-storey building’s side as office workers rushed to evacuate the building.
Thick clouds of black smoke billowed out of the structure, which is a regional office for China Telecom.
Authorities said the flames have since been extinguished and that no casualties had yet been reported.
Images posted on social media showed firefighters aiming jets of water at the blackened facade of the 218m (715ft) tall structure in a race to put the fire out.
An entire side of the skyscraper appeared to be engulfed in flames at one point.
In another video, dozens of people could be seen fleeing the scene as flaming debris rained down from the skyscraper’s upper floors.
The BBC has not yet been able to verify the footage and it is not currently clear what caused the fire.
According to state media, the building was completed in the year 2000 and is positioned near a major ring road in the city of Changsha, the 10-million person capital of Hunan province, in south-central China.
“No casualties have yet been discovered and communications have not been cut off,” a company spokesperson said.
Sizeable fires are a common occurrence in China, where earlier this year a huge chemical plant in Shanghai erupted in flames.
Kashim Shettima, the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said the country needs a leader with “a dose of hospitality” like the former military head of state, Sani Abacha.
Mr Shettima noted that only Bola Tinubu, among other presidential candidates, has Mr Abacha’s qualities.
The running mate also reeled out other attributes of former Nigerian leader military leaders which he claims his principal possesses.
“We need a leader with a vision and sense of responsibility and commitment, and somebody who understands the national title of the nation of an Abdulsalami Abubakar, and in our systemic circumstances, we need a leader with a dose of the hospitality of a Sani Abacha,” Mr Shettima said on Thursday at the 96th anniversary of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Mr Abacha was Nigeria’s military head of state from November 17, 1993 to June 8, 1998 before he suddenly died.
Mr Abacha’s military junta assumed global notoriety for its brutal style and scant regard for human rights and massive crackdown on the media, civil rights groups, and pro-democracy campaigners.
Speaking further, Mr Shettima explained that the general political situation of the country needs the competencies of a detribalised and committed Nigerian like Mr Tinubu.
He said that Mr Tinubu, who has continued to enjoy the support of past leaders of the country, would be pragmatic in his approach to ensuring that the country experiences growth and progress through unity if elected.
“We need a leader with the intellectual acumen, with the action to catapult this nation to a higher pedestrian. We need a leader who is not bound by regional or religious sentiment.
“We need a leader that has established such records of excellence and commitment to good governance. There is no one, with all due respect, that fits this better than Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” the APC vice-presidential candidate said.
Lagos Island, otherwise known as Eko has a lot of cultural offerings concealed in its bowl. The recent research carried out by the Sahara Centre for the Advancement of Culture and Tourism in collaboration with the Lagos Urban Development Initiative (LUDI) on the area revealed that the Island, which is home to many businesses, boasts of different cultural heritage and tourism appeals.
Being the first of its kind, the report was unveiled recently at the Sahara Centre, Ebute Metta, Lagos.
Titled, The Lagos Island Project Report, it documents residents’ perspective on recreation, leisure, culture and tourism.
The report findings draw attention to the role of efficient urban planning in the life and culture of people and how such could be used to improve their living standard, introduce healthier lifestyle, provide infrastructure and promote culture and tourism in the neighbourhoods. It reminded stakeholders in urban development, especially the government and real estate developers of the need to make the living space reflect on residents’ culture, and at the same time, promoting tourism.
Briefing the media, Dr. Adun Okupe, the Creative Director, Sahara Centre and facilitator of the research, disclosed that Lagos Island was chosen for the pilot project because of its Afro-Brazilian heritage, bustling economic activities, socio-cultural importance and its historical legacies.
Okupe noted that the project interrogated the residents’ attitude to leisure and recreational facilities in their neighbourhood, especially accessibility to recreational facilities such as the theatres, adding that urban planners should carry the residents along in city planning and the provision of infrastructure to give them the spirit of ownership and belongingness.
The project facilitator explained that Lagos with its buoyant economy should give priority to how the city is transformed to enable residents work and play seamlessly, and bring the balance required for holistic and happy life.
The executive director, Lagos Urban Development Initiative (LUDI), Olamide Ejorh, disclosed that some of the findings of the report include, the importance of leisure time to residents in various communities, how safety and security are key to outdoor activities and theatre culture, and how playgrounds and open space are being built up and as such hampering the people from expressing themselves in outdoor leisure activities in their communities.
She noted that the report highlighted how the newer development models seem to erode the diversity and vibrancy of their once cherished cities, displacing them with high rents and living costs, which further results in the decline of the value of existing recreational activities and attractions around them.
A surging tide of people — ranging from London retirees to former England soccer captain David Beckham — have lined up to file past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin as it lies in state at Parliament, so many that authorities on Friday had to call a temporary halt to more people joining the miles-long queue.
A live tracker of the queue to get into historic Westminster Hall said it was “at capacity” and entry was being “paused” for six hours as waiting times reached 14 hours and the line stretched 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Parliament to Southwark Park in south London and then around the park. There was even an informal queue of people waiting to join the official one.
King Charles III and his siblings will be standing vigil around the flag-draped coffin on Friday evening.
Beckham was spotted in the line of mourners near Britain’s Houses of Parliament at lunchtime Friday. He’s believed to have joined the queue at 2 a.m. and to have lined up for more than 10 hours with thousands of others.
Wearing a white shirt and black tie, he bowed briefly to the coffin before moving out of Westminster Hall.
He told British broadcaster ITV, “we can all see, with the love that has been shown, how special she is and how special she was and the legacy that she leaves behind.”
The World Health Organization (WHO), said medication errors contribute to over 3million deaths globally every year.
The W.H.O Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, in his message to mark this year’s World Patient Safety Day disclosed that medication errors occur most commonly due to weaknesses in medication systems, and are aggravated by shortages of well-trained health staff, and poor working and environmental conditions for delivery of quality health care.
The day is marked on 17 September every year, with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of people-centered care and preventing harm to patients.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti said that this year’s theme, “Medication Safety: Medication Without Harm,” specifically draws attention for the need to improve systems to support safe medication and address unsafe practices.
Dr Moeti noted that consequently, patients’ rights to medication without prejudice can be compromised through inappropriate prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring practices.
The WHO Regional Director for Africa however warned that administration of surplus medication at home, the purchase of medication from pharmacies on the advice of friends and relatives rather than trained professionals, and the use of old prescriptions to buy medication to treat a current ailment, are all common practices that should be avoided.
According to him, weak medication systems or human factors are the major contributory factors to unsafe practices, with many countries lacking the capacity to detect, evaluate and prevent medicine safety issues. He noted that other contributory factors include fatigue, inadequate knowledge, training, staff shortages, workplace distractions, high workload and limited resources.
Dr. Moeti said that Medication Without Harm is aim to reduce severe avoidable medication-related harm by 50% globally in the next five years, through focused activities and interventions targeting three areas: patients and the public; health care professionals; and medicines, systems and medication practices.
He stated that based on current estimates, US$ 42 billion of total health expenditure worldwide could be averted if medication errors are addressed.
The global campaign’s call to action is “KNOW. CHECK. ASK.” It aims to encourage and empower patients and their caregivers, as well as health care professionals, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, to take a more active role in ensuring safer medication practices, and medication-use processes.
A delegation of Chinese officials reportedly has been barred from visiting the historic hall in Parliament where Queen Elizabeth II is lying in state, as geopolitics cast a shadow over the solemn pageantry surrounding the monarch’s death.
The spat broke out as the government said it was temporarily stopping people from joining the line to file past the queen’s coffin as the wait for those at the back hit 14 hours. On Friday morning the line stretched for 5 miles (8 km) from Parliament to Southwark Park in south London and then around the park.
The government says the park is now full and entry to the queue is being “paused” for at least six hours.
The Chinese ambassador to the U.K. has been banned from Parliament for a year after Beijing sanctioned seven British legislators last year for speaking out against China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in the far-west Xinjiang region.
The office of House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle declined to comment Friday on the report in Politico of the Chinese delegation being barred from visiting the queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament.
The Polish government has requested the return of a number of looted artworks from Russia.
The works – a selection of masterpieces by Italian painters between the 14th and 18th century – were stolen by the Red Army during World War II. They are now hung in the Pushkin State museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
The paintings, which include “Two Saints” by Spinello Aretino and “Adoration of the Child” by Lorenzo di Credi, were stored in the collections of the Czartoryski family in Goluchow, at the Wilanow Palace, and in Poznan, Wroclaw and Lodz.
“Traces of hundreds of thousands of items lead to the Russian Federation and to the former Soviet republics,” said Piotr Glinski, the Polish Culture Minister, at a press conference.
“[We] will never stop searching for … cultural items that were looted.”
Why was Polish art looted in WWII?
It is estimated the 50 per cent of collections were looted from Polish museums during World War II, when the country was occupied by both the Nazis and the Soviets.
The Polish government has already issued 20 requests to Russia for the return of items and artefacts including archives from the Auschwitz death camp and paintings by Durer and Holbein. All so far have been ignored.
“Until this day (Russia’s) government has not reviewed any of the claims,” said Glinski.
Relations between Russia and the former Soviet satellite state have long been strained but hit a new low on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Poland has been a big backer of Kyiv and pushed for strong sanctions from within the EU.
Looted Polish treasures can be found in many countries including other former Eastern Bloc members. Since 2016 the Polish government has secured the return of 600 items, none of which were from Russia.
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