The Old Supreme Court Building was the former official courthouse of the Supreme Court of Singapore, before the new building was built and the courthouse moved.
The Supreme Court seat was in this building starting from 1939, up until 20 June 2005. The last classical building in the city-state of Singapore, it was designed by Frank Dorrington Ward. It is believed that his inspiration came from the Old Bailey Courthouse in London, where it is easy to see the similarity, with the central dome backing the classical façade anchored by Corinthian and Ionic columns.
The columns and the tympanum (the triangular piece over the columns) are of particular interest, created by Singapore-based Milanese sculptor Cavalieri Rudolfo Nolli and carved out of gypsum plaster.
They are dominated by the central figure of Justice, and on the left side there is a figure that represents the need for Mercy, while on the right side, two legislators carrying books are depicting the Law. Other figures symbolize Gratitude and Prosperity, which is result of a system where law and order prevail.
Since the building was built during the Great Depression, the inside does signify that it was built in that period due to the gypsum plaster which was used to finish the cornices and the main hall, while the Art Deco flooring was done in rubber, with the added advantage of absorbing loud noises. Nonetheless, it is an alluring building that really makes you adore it.
For the 15th consecutive year, Lagos Business School (LBS) has been ranked as one of the top global business schools by the Financial Times in its Executive Education 2022 ranking.
LBS, “Africa’s finest”, was ranked 41 in Executive Education resulting from a 50th and 51st position in the Open Enrolment and Customs programmes ranks respectively.
Reacting to the recent achievement, the Dean of LBS, Professor Chris Ogbechie said this accomplishment is proof that LBS is Africa’s leading business school, providing high-quality business education amongst the world’s best.
He added that it is a testament to the quality of the faculty, programmes, teaching methods and overall participant experience.
He said “Resulting from the activities of our faculty who are industry experts, we have become thought leaders in business, championing the drive for management excellence.”
Also commenting, the President of Lagos Business School Alumni Association and CEO of Businessday Media Limited, Frank Aigbogun said, “Lagos Business School has since its inception provided the highest quality of management education to participants. Being ranked 41 in the world and number one in Africa is a great achievement that the LBS Alumni Association is proud of. Congratulations to the Dean, staff and entire LBS community.”
Financial Times is the world’s leading business publication, and it publishes an annual list of the best providers of executive education in the world based on programme and teaching quality, faculty excellence and diversity, international reach and other factors.
LBS is the only African business school to make it into the top 50 this year, the school improved its position in open enrolment by 19 places.
Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano that has three volcanic cones named Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, located in the northeastern part of the United Republic of Tanzania, overlooking Kenya.
As it is the highest point in Africa, the highest central cone, Kibo, rises to 5,895 meters (19,340 feet) above sea level, making the list of the Seven Summits.
The name of Kilimanjaro comes most likely from the Kiswahili language, where Kilima means mountain, while Njaro means greatness.
This free standing, snow-covered majestic mountain has become a very popular challenge and experience for climbers, who most often are giving up on summiting the peak due to the altitude sickness.
As a matter in fact, the mountain is a major climbing destination, which is also part of the Kilimanjaro National Park.
All those people, especially the local Chagga people, who live around Kilimanjaro enjoy the many benefits from the rich volcanic soil which is perfect for agriculture, together with the endless source of pure spring waters, and also in the last couple of decades increased tourism.
Mountain has been the subject of many scientific studies, due to the shrinking glaciers, nonetheless, the interior is not well studied since there is no large scale erosion that would allow this.
The first ascent to the mountain was on 6 October 1889 by the German geographer Hans Meyer and the Austrian mountaineer and teacher Ludwig Purtscheller.
Meyer’s successful ascent was actually his third attempt, which in the end was done due to the establishment of several campsites with food supplies, just in case they ran out of food, not to descend too much.
Soon after this, Mountain Kilimanjaro was open for a record breakers to climb it, and leave their footprint, but not on the mountain, though in history.
There is the fastest ascent-descent which has been recorded by the Swiss-Ecuadorian mountain guide Karl Egloff , who on 13 August 2014 ran the top and back in 6 hours and 42 minutes.
The fastest female ascent and descent was done on 27 July 2015, when she climbed and descended from the summit in 12 hours and 58 minutes.
The youngest person to climb the mountain was Keats Boyd with only seven years, while the oldest man to ever climb it was Robert Wheeler with 85 years, and the oldest woman was Ether Kafer with 84 years.
However, between 1993 and 2003 there were 25 deaths recorded, some of them killed in a rock fall, other from other heart-related and altitude sickness reasons.
Still, the mountain is quite picturesque with its vegetation zones, from base to summit, that are consisting of the semiarid scrub of the surrounding plateau; the massif’s cultivated, well-watered southern slopes; dense cloud forest; open moorland; alpine desert; and moss and lichen communities.
Also, it is quite notable that there are glaciers surrounding the highest peak in Africa, among which Drygalski Glacier, Great Penck Glacier, and Uhlig Glacier have vanished, with the continuing threat for the other 12 glaciers and ice fields to be melted away.
Definitely one of the most impressive points in Tanzania that is one of the most popular one in the world as well, will not allow you to conquer it with ease, but will give you awe when you’ll reach the end point.
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has lamented the exclusion of its members from the new salary package for teachers in primary and post-primary schools in the country.
President, Schools and Colleges Trade Group Council of NASU, Haruna Kamara, who decried the development at the regular meeting of the group, said the step would ensure the retention of the best and most skilled teachers in the industry.
He said there is an urgent need to extend the same package and incentives to non-teaching colleagues, who essentially render the needed support service that eases the act of imparting sound knowledge.
Kamara argued that some non-teaching staff are professional in their callings and are academically more qualified than some teachers.
Karama noted that if the dichotomy is not quickly corrected, it could cause division and disquiet in the primary and post-primary sub-section.
In his welcome address, Dr Tso Zakari, who spoke on behalf of the FCT branches’ chairmen, lauded the management team for improving staff welfare.
He added that the education sector has never had it this good, especially in the area of staff welfare.
He said in the FCT, promotions are not only promptly conducted but also promptly implemented while other staff entitlements and incentives are never overlooked by this administration as well as training and capacity building for staff in the education sector.
He appealed to the FCT Minister, Muhammad Bello, to include non-teaching staff in the planned implementation of the elongation of the years of service of teachers to 65 years and 35 years in service.
Meanwhile, a former Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, has identified a lack of trust for unending strikes in universities.
Shekarau said the government must engage protesting unions in meaningful and sincere negotiations for the sake of the students who are stranded at home.
He cautioned the government against embarking on frivolous expenditures and guide its officials from indulging in unmitigated corruption while painting different realities to the unions during negotiations.
In his intervention at the meeting, the NASU general secretary, Peters Adeyemi, foreclosed early reopening of universities, saying there is no dialogue going on between the four university unions and Federal Government.
Adeyemi said the tripartite meeting chaired by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, has achieved very little so far.
A Professor of Neurology, and Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Ibadan, Prof. Mayowa Owolabi, has said that no less than 50m Nigerians are suffering from hypertension.
In a statement made available to Newsmen, Owolabi noted that this was largely complicated by a poor decline in diagnoses, treatments, and control of victims.
He, thereby, charged Nigerians to live a healthy lifestyle to curb the growing rate of hypertension cases in the country.
According to the scholar, the rise in cases of hypertension may be due to people’s habitual unhealthy diet, which includes a high intake of red meat and salt, low consumption of green leafy vegetables, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking, diabetes, air pollution, urbanisation, and deforestation.
Owolabi noted that the increase in complications was due to the low proportion of individuals with hypertension who were diagnosed, treated, and controlled, adding that in Africa, about 93 per cent of those with hypertension were unaware, untreated, or uncontrolled.
He attributed uncontrolled hypertension as the leading risk factor for stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure, and urged people to frequently examine their blood pressure.
Hypertension
‘’Uncontrolled hypertension is the leading cause of stroke. Blood pressure control along with control of other conditions such as diabetes mellitus, and high cholesterol, can prevent stroke.
‘’It is important for you to check your blood pressure at least four times a year, and if found to be hypertensive, see a doctor for medications to treat it,’’ he said.
Also speaking, a family physician, Dr Mubo Ibiyo, advised people to regularly check their blood pressure for early detection, and see a doctor when an abnormal trend was observed.
She advised against patronising unapproved medicine peddlers and urged the public to desist from such practice.
“Check your blood pressure regularly and see a certified doctor in a hospital if the BP is abnormal; not a patent medicine seller posing as a doctor.
“Check your BP every day at home and keep a diary of your recordings for your doctor to review at clinic appointments.
‘’Eat a healthy balanced diet, exercise; avoid a sedentary lifestyle, and ensure rest and good sleep,’’ Ibiyo urged.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled 14 illicit drug joints and arrested 100 suspected peddlers in the last four weeks in Kaduna State.
The State Commander, Umar Adoro, made this known in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Kaduna.
He said operatives of the agency dismantled 14 drug joints in a series of raids conducted in Kaduna and Zaria city in the month of May 2022.
Adoro listed the 14 dismantled drug joints as Abakwa, Malali, Tirkaniya, Rigasa, Romi, Filin Minister, Chikaji, Sabon Gari among others.
He said the apprehended peddlers comprised 93 males and seven females, adding that the Agency also seized drugs and other narcotic substances during the operations.
The commander said the drugs included Cannabis Sativa 192.549kg, Cocaine 0.008kg, Heroin 0.002kg, Tramadol 4.954kg, psychotropic substance 196.960kg and methamphetamine 0.007kg.
“The total weight of drugs seized is 394.480kg within the period under review,” he said.
He said the fight against illicit drug and drug abuse was a collective responsibility, and urged parents to monitor their children to protect them against drug abuse.
The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says any branch that breaks the strike would lose out on the benefits of the struggle, including infrastructure development.
It said that its members had resolved to forge ahead with the strike and pursue it to a logical conclusion.
The union in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Prof. Biodun Olaniran and Secretary, Prof. Toyin Abegunrin, after their congress, berated Governor Seyi Makinde for his alleged threat to stop payment of subvention until lecturers returned to classrooms.
The ASUU said the government should not see itself or students as the target of the strike but as beneficiaries of the strike as the intervention of most state governments in terms of subvention has been used as part-payment of salaries.
The ASUU leaders said that the commissioner’s claim on subvention had created further distrust between the management and the unions as to who is saying the truth and who is not.
According to LAUTECH ASUU, the responsibility of capital projects has been totally abdicated and surrendered to TETFUND and NEEDS assess projects of ASUU’s struggles.
They further noted that lecturers were very sensitive to the plight of the students but that the government should thank the union for the struggle, which has helped in training its members in human capacity development through TETFund grants.
The statement reads in part: “The congress of ASUU, LAUTECH branch, was held on Tuesday, May 7, 2022. The congress deliberated extensively on the press interview granted to the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology by Fresh FM on Saturday, May 28, 2022, and Governor Seyi Makinde by BCOS on Saturday, June 4, 2022, respectively.
In the interview, the commissioner stated that LAUTECH has been receiving full subvention.
This position is a variant with the submission of the university administration that only about 55 per cent of the subvention is provided by the government while the remaining 45 per cent is sought by the university via internally generated revenue (IGR)…
Seyi Makinde, Governor of Oyo State
“… Our union is in the darkness of the true situation of things. Ordinarily, IGR is expected to be used to defray arrears of various allowances owed the workers by the university, but rather, the university administration attributed its inability to defray these outstanding arrears to it having to augment salary with as much as 45 per cent of the monthly subvention to the university. However, the claim by the commissioner has further worsened the distrust of our union on the sincerity of the university administration, believing that the welfare of our members is being toyed with (with a political game).
“In the interview conducted by the BCOS, Makinde stated that the lecturers are insensitive to the plight of the students otherwise; the academic workers of the branch would not have joined the strike. We wish to state here categorically, as we have always done, that the strike is not targeted at any individual or group of individuals or the government of the state. The strike is not about federal or state universities but purely about the university system in Nigeria. The university system is one (as regulated the National University Commission). ASUU too is one. There is only one charter of ASUU with several branches, including the LAUTECH branch.”
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, has called for appropriate legislation and funding to check quackery in medical laboratory science practice in the country.
The Chairman of the association, Mr. Olumide Fadipe, made the call in an interview with the Newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.
Fadipe decried the growing menace of quacks in medical laboratory science practice across the country.
He said that appropriate laws and enforcements should be introduced urgently to check the trend.
Fadipe said that it was heartbreaking that qualified laboratory scientists were not manning some laboratory diagnostic centres in the country.
He said that the hazardous scenario needed to change, saying that about 95 per cent of medical laboratories in many hospitals in Nigeria were manned by unqualified laboratory scientists.
According to him, the legislation is needed to define the requisite training and certification that a person should possess to qualify him or her to run a lab science outfit, which also handles ultrasound and diagnostic reporting.
“It is on these premises that I would like to call on the employers of labour, in public and private, to encourage good lab science practices.
“This can be achieved through appropriate equipment procurement, employment of qualified and registered lab scientists with requisite skills, professionalism and commensurate remuneration.
“Inaccurate diagnosis leads to the wrong management of patients, which can lead to grave consequences on the patients.
“There are laid down procedures to follow in carrying out laboratory tests; ranging from sterilisation of the needles/kits to samples collection and proper disposition of used medical materials are all supposed to be handled by a qualified lab scientist.
Laboratory
“Unfortunately, some individuals and nurses in the comfort of their rooms do carry out lab tests using Point-Of-Care Testing kits.
“Normally, the testing kits are supposed to be handled by only qualified laboratory scientists,” he said.
Fadipe said the association had been working with regulatory agencies such as the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria and the Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency to check quackery.
The AMLSN chairman said that the association occasionally moves around to identify some of the quack laboratory outfits and reports back to the regulatory agencies for appropriate actions or sanctions.
“As an association, there’s a limit to what we can do; as a result, we work hand in hand with the two regulatory agencies.
“But the availability of adequate funds to at least mobilise personnel, vehicles and cater for other logistics needed to visit the illegal operating laboratory outlets, is always a challenge,” Fadipe said.
An expert, Prof. Oladele Osibanjo, has warned that Nigerians are ingesting plastics through fish consumption as a result of the amount of plastic waste being dumped into the oceans.
He said this in Abeokuta, Ogun State while delivering his paper titled “Living sustainably in harmony with nature; curbing the menace of climate change, biodiversity loss and public waste,” as part of activities marking the 2022 World Environment Day.
Osibanjo, the Managing Director of Jawura Environmental Services Limited, was represented by Dr. Olumide Onafeso.
He lamented the high disregard for the environment in areas of waste disposal and planting of trees.
He said, “We need to understand clearly that without these trees the biodiversity will become more difficult for mankind to source oxygen and now the amount of oxygen that we have will determine the survival of that growth and expansion we are having.
“What can we do as individuals? That is where the issue of plastic actually comes in. There is so much to discuss on plastic and it looks as if plastic has come to stay but the fact remains that as bad as plastic is, of course we know plastic is not consumable and most of the plastics end up in the ocean.
“About 91 per cent of the plastic that is produced is not recycled. And so it ends up in the ocean because plastics float. So, water will move the plastic into the ocean ultimately. Your plastics do not really stay in the ground, it doesn’t really cause biodegradation inside the ground because it floats and then are washed away into the river and later run into the ocean.
“These plastics are eaten by the fishes in the ocean and by the time the fishes eat the plastic, we, in turn, get to eat the fishes and we are eating plastic. That is the implications for us.”
Osibanjo called for precautionary care for the environment, adding that the money spent on fixing the environment is more than what can be spent to prevent it.
Earlier in his address, the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, represented by the Head of Service, Nofiu Aigoro, said the state was in the forefront of protecting the environment.
Aigoro disclosed that the state government has spent N2bn on the management of the environment.
Dumebi Kachikwu, the Founder of Roots Television, Nigeria, has clinched the African Democratic Congress (ADC), presidential ticket for the 2023 General Elections.
Kachikwu secured 978 votes to beat his closest rivals, Kingsley Moghalu and Chukwuka Monye, who polled 589 and 339 votes, respectively.
Retired Maj.- Gen. Ekundayo Opaleye, Chairman of the party’s National Convention Committee, announced the result on Thursday.
The convention was held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun.
A total of 10 aspirants participated in the primary, including five females, and a person with special needs, Dr Chike Okogwu, who stepped down after addressing the delegates.
A total of 2,040 delegates from across the country were accredited by the convention committee to elect the party’s presidential candidate.
Kachikwu in his acceptance speech, commended the party for organising quality primary election devoid of monetisation.
He appreciated party members for electing him as presidential candidate, and assured them that he would continue to project the good image of the ADC, and woo voters ahead of the elections.
The ADC National Chairman, Chief Ralph Nwosu, lamented that the two main political parties in the country had failed to provide good leadership for Nigerians over the years.
Nwosu said that the ADC was on a rescue mission to save Nigeria, and planned to win 70 per cent of legislative seats at state and federal levels during the 2023 elections.
“The ADC is ready to salvage Nigeria, and that is why we will be bringing in technocrats to take over the reins of power,” he said.
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