Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, has approved the release of 104 inmates from various correctional facilities to mark the New Year celebration. The State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) issued a statement on Friday. He said Sanwo-Olu signed the release order on December 28 on the recommendation of the Advisory Council […]
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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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The Presidential Committee on Prisons Reform and Decongestion has secured the release of a total of 84 prisons inmates from the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service. They were advised to re-enter the free society with apologies to their parents and other loved ones for their misconducts and to become useful citizens to […]
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The Nigerian Prison Service, NPS, has confirmed that majority (66 per cent) of inmates in Nigerian prisons are awaiting trial as at December 15, 2017. The Controller General of the Service, Jaafaru Ahmed, made the disclosure at the quarterly meeting of the Penal Reform Media Network (PERMNET) in Lagos. Represented by the spokesperson of NPS, […]
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