Christopher Howell was less than halfway into a four-year sentence at Lake Correctional Institution, a men’s prison near Orlando, when he died. He was serving time for stealing four phone chargers from a West Palm Beach Target. He did not die of old age, by suicide or of Covid-19, a disease that has taken the lives of 19 inmates across the Florida prison system. Howell, 51, was killed at the hands of a corrections officer, who beat him while the inmate’s hands were cuffed, multiple prison sources said. The brutal beating happened Thursday. The Florida Department of Corrections says he…

Bank scams are increasing as more customers are adopting electronic means of payment since lockdown was introduced in the country to contain Covid-19 spread. The lending institutions have also been alerting their customers to ensure more caution in transactions as they continue to utilise the e-payment channels available to them. First Bank of Nigeria stated that it recorded over 275,000 new sign-ups to alternative channels covering its Firstmobile, the USSD and First-Online platforms when the lockdown started. In a mail to its customers, it stated, “We observed that scammers are beginning to have sleepless nights over our customers’ accounts. “They…