A Court in Manhattan on Thursday sentenced Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, who worked at the UN in 2013, to two years in prison after an exhaustive plea agreement with the court. It was a stunning defeat for the prosecutor who had asked that Shuaibu be sentenced to five years under the indictment. Shuaibu pleaded guilty to one […]
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Britain will build a new 112-bed wing at Kirikiri Prison in Lagos so that it can transfer Nigerian prisoners there, foreign secretary, Boris Johnson announced in London today. In a written statement to parliament, Johnson said tenders had been placed and a supplier identified to conduct the building work at Kirikiri. He did not name […]
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An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered that two teenagers, Olajire Ayomide,18, and Tope Owoeye ,19, be remanded in prison over alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old. The Prosecutor, Insp Johnson Okuade, told the court on Wednesday that the accused committed the offence on Feb. 8 at Afao Street, Ikere-Ekiti. He said the accused on […]
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The Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, says he has conquered fear and is not afraid of going to prison. Senator Melaye said this on Tuesday on the floor of the senate while drawing the attention of the upper legislative chamber to the charges filed against him by the federal government. The government had accused […]
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The policemen responsible for the death of one Ebuka Okori, a Nigerian who lived in South Africa, have been remanded in prison. Okori was allegedly killed by two members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), on Friday. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, said the Nigeria consulate in […]
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Israel on Wednesday said it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made the remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment programme in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said a barrier Israel completed in […]
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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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Former South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius has been hurt in a prison brawl and consequently sustaining a bruise. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Paralympian was allegedly involved in a fight over the use of a public phone. “It is alleged that he was involved in an altercation with another inmate over the use of […]
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Nasir Ajanah, the chief judge of Kogi state, North-Central Nigeria, has released an awaiting trial inmate accused of armed robbery and kidnapping. He also freed another inmate, ATM Husseini Embiga, saying both suspects were illegally detained. Ajanah granted the unconditional release of Garba while reviewing cases of 17 awaiting trial inmates in the prisons on […]
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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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