By Matthew Denis, Abuja Former Governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Senator Joshua Dariye, and Jolly Nyame, have been released from Kuje correctional facility in Abuja. This is coming three months after their pardon by the Council of State led…
The Police in Ogun on Wednesday said they have arrested a suspected Kuje prison escapee, Yakubu Abdulmumuni, at Sango-Ota area of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement issued to newsmen in Ota, said that the…
President Muhammadu Buhari in the course of the week summoned emergency National Security Council meeting to deliberate on nation’s security challenges occasioned by the recent attacks by terrorist groups. Journalists report that suspected terrorists on Tuesday night attack on presidential…
A personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and four inmates of the Kuje Medium Security Correctional Centre were killed in the gunmen attack on the Correctional Center which took place late Tuesday, 5 July, 2022. Also…
Abimbola Abatta The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the attack on the Kuje correctional facility at Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is even as he bemoaned that “the escape of detained terrorists and…
Abimbola Abatta About 64 Boko Haram suspects have escaped following the Tuesday night attack on the Kuje prison in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Nigerian NewsDirect reports that over 600 inmates, including the Boko Haram suspects, escaped the prison which…
Joel Oladele, Abuja Following the attack on the Kuje Correctional Center, Abuja on Tuesday, the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Mr Abubakar Umar, has told journalists, who have been making efforts to get update, that he’s in a top security…
There was pandemonium among residents of the Kuje prison area in Abuja on Tuesday evening after explosions and gunshots were heard from the direction of the correctional centre. The details of what transpired were unclear as of Wednesday morning. The…
Correctional Service confirms attack on Kuje prison The Nigerian Correctional Service has confirmed that there was an attack on the Custodial Centre in the Kuje area council of the Federal Capital Territory. In a statement by its spokesperson, Umar Abubakar,…
