•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said Nigeria has experienced more jailbreaks since the change of name from prison service to correctional centers. He stated this during plenary yesterday in Abuja, while commenting on two legislations billed for concurrence, reports Daily Trust. They are the bill to repeal and enact the law estab...
•Senator Ubah and Nnamdi Kanu’s wife, Uchechi The wife of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Uchechi, has visited her husband, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of the Directorate of State Service DSS. She hailed Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (Anambra South) for facilitating the visit, reports The Nation. Mrs Kanu said since [&h...
•Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan The detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, has attempted to escape from Kuje Correctional Facility. Investigations by our correspondent revealed how Mr Gambaryan who is currently remanded in Kuje Correctional Facility, applied for a new United States of America passport, under the pr...
•Jail break The protest over nationwide hardship hit the Correctional Center in Jos, Plateau State capital, today as inmates staged a protest over plans to reduce their food ration. It was learnt that immediately they got tipped off on downward review of food size, the inmates started to protest, reports Daily Trust. During the protest, [&hell...
•Late Alexei Navalny Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died today in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year term, Russia’s federal penitentiary service said. Western governments immediately attacked the Kremlin over the death of the most outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, reports AFP. Navalny lost consciousne...
A Magistrate court sitting in Katsina has remanded in prison custody, the chairman of Batagarawa Local Government in Katsina State, Mr Bala Garba Tsanni over alleged murder, abduction and culpable homicide. The chairman and 11 others were arraigned before the court under sections 59, 249 and 189 of the Katsina penal code law, reports Nigerian ...
•Prof. Cyril Ndifon A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the remand of Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), in Kuje Correctional Centre. Justice James Omotosho also ordered one of the lawyers of Ndifon, Mr Sunny Anyanwu, to be remanded in the correctional centre pending [&he...
•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...
•Prison Three inmates of the Ijebu Ode Correctional Home in Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State have escaped from the facility. The Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Correctional Service, Ogun State Command, Victor Oyeleke today, confirmed the jailbreak. Oyeleke disclosed that the incident happened early Saturday around 3 am, repor...
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 […]