Nigeria has emerged as the country with the highest number of facilities ranked among Africa’s ten worst prisons, according to new assessments by rights organisations and international monitors. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, gang violence and inadequate nutrition continue to define the country’s correctional system, raising concerns about hum...
•Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu Dozens of Nigerians remain behind bars in Ethiopia as efforts to repatriate them stall, following delays in finalising a crucial Memorandum of Understanding between both countries. The agreement, which would allow convicted Nigerians to serve the remainder of their sentences at hom...
The federal government has said that at least 12 of the 246 custodial centres in Nigeria are undergoing rehabilitation. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who disclosed this last night on Channels Television, said many of the custodial centres were built 100 years ago and were old. “Mr President did not become president 100 years [&...
•Immigration operatives The federal government has kicked off the 2025 promotion examinations for personnel in paramilitary agencies under the Ministry of Interior, pledging a transparent and merit-driven process. The Civil Defence, Correctional, Immigration, and Fire Services Board is overseeing the exercise, which aims to eliminate favouriti...
•Interior minister, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government have hinted of plans to reduce the number of custodial facilities in the country, declaring that Nigeria does not need the current figure of 256. Noting that some facilities are only utilising about 30 to 40 percent of their carrying capacities, the government said there is need to ...
•Tinubu The Nigerian community in Cote d’Ivoire has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently address the plight of Nigerians languishing in harsh conditions in Ivorian prisons. The appeal highlights the alarming number of detainees, many of whom are reportedly innocent, detained due to administrative issues or extortion by opposition ...
•Prison officials The Nigerian Correctional Service has remained silent over the whereabouts of no fewer than 350 inmates who escaped from the Suleja and Maiduguri correctional facilities in 2024, following severe flooding and rainfall. Earlier in the year, on April 24, heavy rains caused the walls of the Suleja Medium Security Prison in Niger...
•Trump and Harris Former President Donald Trump last night repeated a claim that migrants arriving in the US after fleeing prisons and mental institutions will be deported if elected again on November 5. He said “We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums,” Trump [&he...
•Controller-General Haliru Nababa and Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo There is currently disquiet among the junior officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service over the failure of the authorities to provide them with the service’s new uniform free as they did for their senior colleagues. The affected officers have also raised the ala...
•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...
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