The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has obtained waiver from the federal government to employ 6,545 personnel in different cadre of the service. The Service has provided N6 billion in the 2017 budget for the recruitment. The Comptroller General (CG), NPS, Mr. Jaffaru Ahmed, said in Abuja on Monday at the 2017 budget defence in the House […]
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According to data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 72.53% of inmates in prisons across the country are not sentenced. The prison report released January 19, 2017, by the NBS gives an overview of detainees awaiting sentencing and overall prison population by state and year from 2011 to 2015. Lagos state, the commercial […]
Continue ReadingA total of 10,979 personnel of the Nigerian Prisons Service have been promoted in latest exercise approved by both the Prisons management and the board of the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services. The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB) approved the promotion of 4,075 of the officers on Consolidated Paramilitary […]
Continue ReadingA report has shown that more than 80 percent of prison inmates in the country are awaiting trials, owing to unwholesome criminal justice system in the country. The report just released by the Centre for Crisis Communication(CCC) to mark its one year of dedicated service to the nation notes that the Nigerian Prisons Service sits […]
Continue ReadingNot less than 15 inmates have escaped in a jailbreak that occurred at Nsukka Prison in Enugu state. Quoting a source at the prison, NAN said the inmates broke their cells and scaled over the perimeter fence late Tuesday.“The inmates carefully opened their cells and scaled the perimeter fence of the prisons,” the source was reported as saying. […]
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