Gov. Agbu Kefas of Taraba on Monday pardoned 31 inmates in the state as part of activities to commemorate the 2024 New Year celebration. He announced the pardon in a state-wide broadcast marking the new year in Jalingo. He underscored…
By Fatai Kasali Three inmates have escaped from the Ijebu Ode Correctional Home in Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Correctional Service, Ogun State Command, Victor Oyeleke on Tuesday, who confirmed the…
By Jeleel Olawale The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, CFR, Ojaja II, visited Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, the federal capital territory to kickstart his 8th annual coronation anniversary. Ooni Ogunwusi who is the Co-Chairman of the National…
The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON), recently visited kuje and Suleja correctional centers and interviewed a total number of 74 inmates whose offences ranged from Fraud, Manslaughter, Theft, Criminal breach of trust, rape and so on. The affected inmates…
Thirty-eight of the Inmates Continuing Education Centre at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kurmawa, Kano have successfully completed the 2023 NECO Senior School Certificate Examination. They also graduated from the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies examination. Speaking at the…
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) says the over 52,446 inmates awaiting trial are over stretching facilities in custodial centres across the country. An Assistant Controller General, NCoS, Mr Gimba Dumbulwa said this during High Level Conference on Decongestion and Corrections…
The Prison Decongestion programme of the Ministry of Justice has resulted in the release of 12,000 inmates across correctional centres in the country since 2016. Secretary of the Prison Decongestion Committee of the ministry, Mrs. Patricia Ayoola Daniels made this…
Ahmed Tukur, Deputy Comptroller General, Nigerian Correctional Centre, has observed that gunmen successfully attacked the Custodial Centre, Jos, on Sunday evening, due to few armed guards on duty. It was recalled that the gunmen during the attack on the Centre,…
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Tuesday, pardoned 136 inmates as part of measures to decongest the correctional centres in the state. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Malam Abba Anwar, disclosed this in a statement he issued…
Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa has pardoned 17 inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) in the state. Hajiya Zainab Baba-Santali, the Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Justice, disclosed this in a statement issued in Dutse on Wednesday. Baba-Santali said…
