Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the release of 52 inmates from various correctional centers across the state and commuted six death sentences to life imprisonment. The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Lawal Pedro (SAN) revealed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday....
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Marking the Holy Year of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis opened a Holy Door at a prison in Rome on Thursday, offering a message of hope and forgiveness to inmates. “Do not lose hope, that is the message I want to give you,” the 88-year-old pontiff told the prisoners...
Former Governor of Edo, Sen. Adams Oshiomhole has lauded the Federal Government for increasing the feeding allowance for inmates at the Nigerian correctional centres by 50 per cent. Oshiomhole, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Interior, said on Monday in Benin the action would address one of the...
The Federal Government has increased the feeding allowance for inmates at the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCos) by 50 per cent. The service spokesperson, Mr Umar Abubakar, made the disclosure at the monthly news conference organised by the Strategic Communications Interagency Policy Committee (SCIPC). This month’s conference was hosted by...
Congolese Interior Minister, Jacquemain Shabani on Tuesday said 129 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attempted prison break. On his X account, Shabani said authorities shot dead 24 inmates of the Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa, while dozens of others were suffocated...
The Chief Judge (CJ) of Nasarawa State, Justice Aisha Bashir-Aliyu has released 167 inmates across the five custodial centres in the state. Bashir-Aliyu freed the inmates during an official visit to the custodial centres in Lafia, Wamba, Nasarawa and Keffi Local Government Areas of the state. Speaking at...
The Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) has warned that congestion of Correctional Centres, was often responsible for jailbreaks. The Executive Director of PRAWA, Dr Uju Agomoh, said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja. The conference was organised by PRAWA in partnership with the National Civil Society Forum...
No fewer than 23 inmates of the Enugu Custodial Centre bagged Masters, first degree and Post Graduate Diploma of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Saturday. Five of them bagged the Master’s degree, 17 bagged their first degrees, while one got a Post-Graduate Diploma. The 23 are...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL Sokoto – In his continued efforts towards decongesting the correctional centers over the years, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has once again secured the release of another 60 inmates in Sokoto State. The freed inmates including a woman were serving various jail terms for different offences,...
Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda has secured the release of 222 inmates from various correctional facilities in the state by settling their fines. This is contained in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr Ibrahim Kaula-Mohammed, on Tuesday in Katsina. He said the decision was...
Ahead of the Eid-el-Fitr celebration, Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State, has donated cows and foodstuff to inmates currently serving their jail terms in various custodial centres in the state. Presenting the items on Tuesday in Kano, the governor said that the gesture would give the inmates a...
The Plateau State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service says it has not reduced the quantity and quality of food rations for inmates. Spokesman of the command, Mr Godfrey Longdiem, stated this in Jos on Saturday while reacting to media reports that inmates at the Jos Custodial Centre...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said each prisoner in custodial facilities nationwide is being fed with N750 daily, not N200 as mischievously circulated in a section of the media. The Service Public Relations Officers, Mr Abubakar Umar, who stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja,...
Gombe State Governor Inuwa Yahaya has granted clemency to 39 inmates serving various jail terms in Correctional facilities in the state. Yahaya made this known in a statewide broadcast to the people of the state on Monday in Gombe, as part of activities to mark the New Year....
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, in the spirit of new year, has pardoned 14 prisoners serving various terms in some correctional centres across the state. The development was disclosed in a statement on Monday, by the state’s Attorney General and...
The nation’s correctional centres have 3,413 inmates on death row, according to Mr Abubakar Umar, spokesman of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS). Umar told newsmen on Friday in Abuja that the total number of inmates in centres across the country is 77,849 comprising 76,081 males and 1,768 females...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said no fewer than 53, 836 inmates inmates in the 253 the correctional centres nationwide are awaiting trial as at Dec,18. The spokesperson of the service, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC) Abubakar Umar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja...
The Federal government through the Ministry of Interior, on Tuesday, freed 37 inmates from both the Port Harcourt Maximum Security Custodial Centre and the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Ahoada, Rivers State. The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this while performing the release of the inmates...
The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has called for the immediate investigation of intelligence report on misconduct by some men of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS). This is contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Alao Babatunde, on Thursday in Abuja....
A total of 4,068 inmates of correctional centres across the country has been released as part of efforts to decongest the centres, Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has said. The minister made this known on Saturday at the Kuje Medium Correctional Centre, where 37 of the inmates...