•Prison No fewer than 8,300 prison inmates have been pardoned or had their sentences reduced at different custodial centres across the country between January 2022 and March 2026, as federal and state authorities step up efforts to address overcrowding in correctional facilities. Pardons are usually granted after being recommended by a judicia...
•Nigerian Senate The National Assembly has introduced a proposal in the ongoing amendment of Electoral law that would give prison inmates in Nigeria the right to vote in elections. The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, gave the hint ahead of resumption of the National Assembly from Christmas break, adding that the proposed law [&...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has berated President Bola Tinubu’s government for using force and intimidation to turn peaceful protesters and dissent voices into prisoners. Atiku stated this yesterday in a statement he titled, ‘A Nation in the Thrones of Fear’, stressing that there is a disturbing yet growing pattern...
•Freed Ukrainian prisoners of war wrapped with Ukrainian national flags Russia and Ukraine exchanged 84 prisoners each yesterday Thursday, both sides said, the latest in a series of swaps that has seen hundreds of prisoners of war (POWs) released so far this year. This latest one came on the eve of a high-level summit between […]
Chaos erupted at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, in the early hours of yesterday, as 16 inmates escaped in a violent jailbreak that left five correctional officers injured, two of them critically. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) confirmed the incident in a statement, sparking a nationwide manhunt and ren...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has revealed that Ogun and Rivers states currently top the list of inmates on death row, with 568 and 504 cases respectively, out of a national total of 3,833 death row inmates. This was disclosed by Deputy Controller of Corrections and Service Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Umar, during an intervie...
•Some prison inmates In a bid to alleviate overcrowding in Nigeria’s correctional facilities, four state governors have granted pardons to over 120 inmates across various prisons in their states in the last three months. The pardon is part of ongoing efforts to reduce congestion in the nation’s correctional system, reports Sunday PUNCH. Govern...
•Jail break Twelve inmates have escaped in an early morning jailbreak at the Federal Correctional Centre in Kotonkarfe, Kogi State, today. Kogi State Information Commissioner, Kingsley Fanwo, described the incident as “unfortunate” and assured citizens that the government, working with security agencies, would take steps to prevent a recurrenc...
•Prisoners The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) yesterday revealed that the number of prisoners on death row had risen from 3,590 in September 2024 to 3,688 in March 2025, representing a 2.73 percent increase or 98 prisoners within six months, saying that state governors have refused to execute inmates on the death row. The NCoS also [&h...
•Mourners hold pictures of Hezbollah fighters during the funeral of militants and civilians killed in the recent war with Israel in Lebanon Israel said yesterday it killed a senior Hezbollah militant responsible for drones and missiles, even as it freed Lebanese prisoners as a “goodwill” gesture to the country’s new president. Despite a ceasef...
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