Welcome to the new year (2024) – with fervent hope that it will turn out to be more prosperous and less tumultuous than 2023. In furtherance of our current mood for reminiscences, we present copious excerpts from my 2021 memoirs, titled “It’s A Dog’s Life: A Kirikiri Prison Diary”. Grim as it is, there are interesting bits about it. Enjoy…: …

No fewer than 26 inmates at the Maximum Security Custodial Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos State have graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria in various disciplines. The inmates, who received their certificates at the convocation ceremony organised by the institution on 13th July 2023, were pronounced graduates after the completion of their various programmes for the 2022/2023 academic session. They …