No fewer than than 140 inmates on death row are awaiting execution in Kano State. Spokesman of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kano State Command, Mr Musbahu Kofar-Nassarawa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Kano that those on death row are of both genders....
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A total of 36,712 cases are pending in various courts in Rivers, the Chief judge, Justice Simeon Amadi, said on Thursday in Port Harcourt. Amadi said at a special court session to mark the beginning of the 2023/2024 Legal Year in the state that most of the cases...
Rivers State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi, on Thursday, granted pardon to 53 inmates at the Port Harcourt Maximum Correctional Centre who are standing trial for various offences. Amadi said that the pardon was part of the week-long programmes put in place by the state judiciary to...
A total of 54,171 inmates out of the 79,076 inmates in correctional centres nationwide as at July 31, are awaiting-trial persons. Controller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr Haliru Nababa gave the figure on Thursday in Abuja at an international conference on prisoners’ justice. The conference...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Lagos Command on Saturday confirmed that 30 inmates had been pardoned and released by the Lagos State Government. The spokesperson of the NCoS, Mr Rotomi Oladokun, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The NCoS Lagos...
Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago, has pardoned 80 inmates in various correctional centres in the state. The governor also approved the immediate payment of their fines, to enable the inmates rejoin their families. A statement by Alhaji Abubakar Usman, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), in Minna on Monday,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Yola – The police in Adamawa State have arrested two inmates who were among those that escaped from Kuje Correctional Centre during Boko Haram terrorists’ attack in July 2022. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the arrest in a statement...
An NGO, Anchor Heritages Initiatives (AHI), has welcomed the release of 199 inmates from the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) Custodial Centres in South West and North Central parts of the country. The Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of the NGO, a foundation, Mr Bidemi Oladipupo, made this known in...
The Federal Government says it spends N1 million annually to cater for each of the inmates at the correctional facilities in the country. Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to the statement,...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola says state governments will now be feeding and accommodating inmates in their states. He said this followed the recent consultational amendment which placed Correctional Services on the concurrent list. Aregbesola gave the insight while speaking at a 2-day High-Level Conference on Decongestion and...
Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje has pardoned 4,000 inmates in the last eight years, Chief Press Secretary to the deputy governor, Malam Hassan Fagge, said on Friday in Kano. Fagge, in a statement, quoted Ganduje as stating this while pardoning 43 inmates at the Goron Dutse custodial facility to...
By HARUNA AHMED, Sokoto – Sen. Aliyu Wamakko has secured the release of 62 inmates serving various jail terms in various Correctional Centres in Sokoto State. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Sokoto by Bashar Abubakar, Wamakko’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity. The statement...
No fewer than 3,298 inmates across the custodial centres in Nigeria are on death row, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has revealed. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr Abubakar Umar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, however said that the term ‘condemned...
The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom, Justice Ekaette Obot, has released 45 inmates across the state during her facility visit to the Correctional Centres. The Chief judge made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Uyo on Friday after a three-day facility visit to correctional centres in the state. Obot...
Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, has released 100 inmates of the Agodi Correctional Centre Ibadan, on Monday and Tuesday. One of them is a 16-year-old boy (juvenile) charged with alleged murder. Justice Abimbola said the boy is underage and could be more hardened if he continued...
There are 3,167 inmates on death row, spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Assistant Controller of Corrections, Mr Umar Abubakar, said in Abuja on Thursday. They comprise 3,105 males and 62 females, he told newsmen. He added that the correctional centres currently have 19,140 male and 339 female convicts....
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) Pyrates Confraternity, Atlantic Shores Deck has facilitated release of two inmates in Akwa Ibom The inmates were serving two years and twelve years respectively in Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Eket Divisional Centre. Mr Utibe Ikot, Capone of the association disclosed this while securing...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has called on the Federal Government to abolish both West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) examinations free for inmates. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of NCoS, FCT command, Mr Chukwuedo Humphrey said this in a statement issued on Friday in...
There is now calm at the Kuje Correctional Centre in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, following a deadly attack on the facility by gunmen on Tuesday night, PRNigeria reports. Recalled that suspected terrorists Tuesday night attacked the Kuje prison, freeing hardened criminals into the nation’s capital. PRNigeria gathered that...
Four inmates have died at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kosere Area, Ile-Ife, during an attempted jailbreak. A top security officer who spoke on anonymity made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ile-Ife on Tuesday. The official said that some inmates had planned to escape during...