Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) is again enmeshed in another scandal of illegal recruitment of personnel, with many of the intakes allegedly paying as much as N650,000 each to gain employment into the service.
Between October 2016 and now, over 3,800 people are said to have been recruited underground, most of whom have equally undergone training and posted to various prisons across the federation.
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that the secret recruitment being done in defiance of the federal character principle is ongoing and the second batch of the segmented recruits is currently undergoing training at some of the prisons service’s training…

Thousands of people crowded into Moscow's Pushkin Square on Sunday for an unsanctioned protest against the Russian government, the biggest gathering in a wave of nationwide protests that were the most extensive show of defiance in years. Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is leading the opposition to President Vladimir Putin, was arrested while walking from a nearby subway station to the demonstration at Moscow's iconic Pushkin Square. Navalny and his Foundation for Fighting Corruption had called for the protests, which attracted hundreds or thousands in most sizeable Russian cities, from the Far East port of Vladivostok to the European…