As he attains the Platinum age of 70 on October 10, 2024, Is’haq Olanrewaju Oloyede’s public service trajectory has marked him out as a rare breed Nigerian, who is apparently immune to the general malaise bedevilling the nation’s socio-economic milieu. Here is a university don whose entire public service record radiates transparency, accountability, single-minded commitment to service excellence, administrative acumen, dogged commitment to the achievement of set goals, undiluted integrity, effortless exhibition of leadership by example and unapologetic insistence on fairness to all! In the face of a national feeling of hopelessness, despondency and unending apprehension over whether anything good…

On 7 June 1911, the High Court of Australia decided a very interesting case. It arose from a publication issued two months earlier, on 7 April 1911, by a newspaper called The Mercury, published from Hobart, in Tasmania. Under the title “A Modest Judge,” the newspaper took aim at Mr Justice Higgins, a senior judge of the High Court of Australia, who was also the first President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. According to the records, in a case presided over by Higgins in the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, a lawyer, Mr Starke, accused a labour…