•Prison break One hundred and nineteen inmates have escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Suleja, in Niger State after a rainstorm wreaked havoc on a part of the facility late yesterday. “A heavy downpour that lasted for several hours on the night of Wednesday, 24 April 2024, has wreaked havoc on the Medium Security […]
•Prison The Controller, Nigeria Correctional Service, Akwa Ibom Command, Mr Julius Ezugwu, said that about 2,413 out of 2,854 inmates were awaiting trials in the four correctional facilities across the state. Ezugwu said this at a one-day capacity-building workshop for the Akwa Ibom State Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee...
•Rev. Valerian Okeke The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke has said that not all the inmates of Nigerian Correctional Centers committed the crimes that took them to prisons, reports Vanguard. Okeke, who made this observation in his homily at Onitsha Medium C...
The Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS said no fewer than 3,341 males are currently on death row while 72 females are also to face the hangman noose. Controller General of the Service, Haliru Nababa disclosed this at a news conference yesterday in Abuja. He added that there are 1,293 males and 15 females in life sentence […]
•Prison The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) said no fewer than 53,836 inmates in the 253 correctional centres nationwide are awaiting trial as of December 18. The spokesperson of the service, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC), Abubakar Umar, told our correspondent in Abuja today. Umar said the summary of the inmates across the cou...