Tag: Correction Centre

FG denies inmate swapping in prisons

Ayo Fashanu

Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola,  on Friday, denied reports of swap of inmates in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service with free citizens. The Minister gave the denial while speaking at the third and fourth quarter 2021 performance review meeting of the ministry on Friday. Aregbesola went further and  described the allegations as […]

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228 inmates escape from Kogi prison

Ayo Olowo

Some two hundred and twenty-eight inmates have escaped from a medium federal correctional centre (prison) in Koton Karfe in Kogi after some parts of it collapsed owing to heavy flooding. NAN quoted Jafar Ahmed, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), as saying this while speaking with journalists in Koton Karfe on Monday. Ahmed said […]

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