GLOBAL COMMUNITY REPORTERS

The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has disclosed that it intends to set up specialised farm centres so that prisoners will be able to feed themselves.

By Robert Egbe The Lagos State Government yesterday allayed the fears of residents on a substance suspected to be Improvised Explosive Device (IED), which was allegedly dropped in a manhole in a street in Agege. It said that there was no cause for alarm.

The Federal House of Representative  Member, representing Amuwo Odofin Constituency has kicked off his maiden edition of a unity football cup for all communities under his constituency.

A strange and beautiful sight greeted locals in the Gulf of Ob, in northwest Siberia, after thousands of natural snowballs formed on the beach.

The Abia State Executive Council has approved #10,000 reduction of the Abia State University (ABSU) school fees for Abia indigenes in ABSU.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook – the largest social media network – yesterday paid his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria, his destination, has the largest mobile and internet market on the continent.

A young woman recently gave birth to premature twin boys in Xi'an, northwestern ‪China‬'s Shanxi province. But to everyone’s surprise, there was a third baby in the belly of one of the twins.

More than 160 couples in a village in eastern China have decided to divorce in order to get more compensation after the forced demolition of their homes.

Year after year, reports emerge in the press about the pitiful condition of the roads in Lagos suburbs, the town of Kirikiri. Countless accidents occur on its most frequently-used, busy Dillion Street; road users, residents lose lives, property, businesses and time because of the terrible state of the road.  A densely populated town in the Oriade Local Council Development Area of Lagos state with some spicing of industrial presence is home to the biggest prison in Nigeria – the female, medium and maximum security Kirikiri prisons. Although a thing of the past to every Nigerian, hearing someone mention they live in Kirikiri means the person admitting to their prisoner status. But in reality, Kirikiri has two sets of people: those that dwell behind the “walls” and those who reside outside. Kirikiri town, which is as old as the Lagos state itself, is attracting manufacturers and bonded terminal moguls. This explains the dense movement of heavy vehicles in and out of the a...

A self-professed Chairman of pickpockets, Ibrahim Kasali, fondly called Ibrahim Babangida of Oshodi in Lagos State was weekend arrested by operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS of the state Police Command.