•Free train passengers stranded yesterday at Idu Railway Station, Abuja, ahead of Christmas The free train rides declared by the Tinubu-led federal government across the country have kicked off across the country amidst delays and overcrowding at some of the stations as Nigerians turned up in large numbers for the rides to their various destin...
•UK flag The UK is today due to release early a second batch of 1,000 prisoners as the government launched a review of sentencing to ease chronic overcrowding in jails. The controversial policy previously saw 1,700 prisoners freed early last month, reports AFP. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood pledged that earlier mistakes that led to 37 [&he...
•Britain national flag, The Union Jack Thousands of prisoners are to be released early in September to prevent overcrowding crisis and the “collapse” of the prison system, the UK’s new justice minister, Shabana Mahmood, announced today. Mahmood said failure to do so risked the “total breakdown of law and order”, with just 700 places left [&hel...

