Tag: Prison

“I personally called in the EFCC after I summoned the POS operators to my palace…”

Mr Dahiru was initially charged with criminal conspiracy, defamation of character, and intentional insult before a magistrate.

Nigeria has reported 48 mpox cases across 19 states and the FCT, with no deaths recorded, according to the NCDC.

The suspects were arraigned before a magistrate court on Monday and the judge ordered their remand in a correctional facility ...

Amnesty International has faulted the remand of Mr Danjani and called for his immediate release.

This discovery contradicts the previous position of the National Correctional Service (NCoS) spokesperson, Abubakar Umar, who had declared correctional centres ...

Mr Sani in exercise of his power of prerogative of mercy freed the convicts to celebrate the 2024 June 12 ...

The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Police arrested Mr Mohammed on 1 May after he was accused of falsely ...

The convict was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for raping his daughter but escaped from prison during a jailbreak.

NCoS says overcrowding was a challenge to its smooth operation in Kano State, as the number of awaiting trial inmates ...

The 40-year-old who was found guilty of assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub on New Year's Eve 2022 has ...

The mandate of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) is to reform and rehabilitate offenders to become better citizens but some ...

President Julius Bio’s administration claimed that the former president’s bodyguards were largely responsible for the attempted coup.

The governor is likely to submit more nominees to the Assembly.

"It does not accord with justice and legality for a magistrate court to remand a suspect on a charge the ...

A total of 51,541 out of the 75,635 inmates (68 per cent) in various prisons in the country are awaiting ...

‘The Man Died’, a memoir of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s prison experience, was published in 1972.

The lawyer revealed the identity of the prison official who tortured him.

“I consider it an honour for me to be incarcerated for truth," Inibehe Effiong said.

“This is not only a fight for Inibehe, (and) civil society; this is a fight for democracy and our dear ...

Inibehe Effiong published details of his experience in court on social media.

Apart from the attack on the presidential convoy, there were attacks on Nigeria's 'most fortified' prison, police officers, a Chinese ...

The minister said that although the Kuje prison is officially a 'medium' security prison, it was the most fortified in ...

Heavy security presence with fierce-looking armed personnel are seen in areas considered as flash points.

According to the prosecutor, the accused murdered Ms Okeowo with the plan to use her for a money ritual.