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CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos (LINK) 16 October 2025
German researchers find highly effective HIV antibody: can prevent infections and neutralize the virus in the laboratory (LINK) 15 October 2025
Pennsylvania man wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years faces deportation after ICE arrest (LINK) 15 October 2025
Catchup: Nigerian woman officer wins UN award (Trailblazer Award for Women Justice and Corrections Officers) for transforming prisons in Congo (LINK) 8 October 2025
— Passblue: Olukemi Ibikunle, as a corrections official, got the authority to literally knock down the wall of Nigeria's oldest prison to create a service gate for deliveries of large supplies into the fortress and evacuating human waste out. She proposed and led the installation of a biogas system, a renewable-energy source, in the Kirikiri Maximum Security Custodial Center, in Lagos, housing the most-hardened criminals in 2018. But perhaps the toughest success for her was getting the government, weighed down by decades-long fights with a range of rebel groups, to agree to creating a prison system respecting the dignity of inmates and protecting incarcerated women from sexual violence. Ibikunle and her team of correctional experts with the UN peacekeeping mission in the Congo, called Monusco, developed a policy and a construction prototype that was adopted by the Kinshasa government to improve aspects of the country's prison system. She is now based in Beni, eastern Congo.
