FORMER Mali prime minister Moussa Mara will spend one year in prison after a Bamako court sentenced him Monday following…
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CONTRACTORS responsible for providing food to inmates across correctional centres in the country have raised alarm over what they describe…
THE Magistrate Court sitting in Kuje, Abuja, has remanded Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the brother of the leader of the proscribed…
FORMER Congolese President Joseph Kabila has announced a movement to “save” his country, after a meeting with other opposition leaders…
A FORMER defence minister and vocal critic of Togo’s government, Marguerite Gnakadé, has been arrested, according to security sources. Gnakadé,…
BRAZIL’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced firebrand ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for coup plotting at the…
A FORMER senior employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, is facing a maximum prison…
THE Päijät-Häme District Court in Finland has sentenced a pro-Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, to six years in prison for terrorism…
MALI’s civilian ex-prime minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, dismissed in November after he criticised the junta, was charged Tuesday with embezzlement…
IN what can be described as a case of justice delayed but not denied, the Chief Judge of Rivers State,…
FIVE months after the National Identity Management Commission authorised the Nigerian Correctional Service to register inmates for National Identity Numbers,…
THE Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has refuted reports of an alleged bomb explosion at the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC)…
BY the release of over 4,082 inmates, the Federal Government will be saving more than N1 billion yearly and decongesting correctional…
STAKEHOLDERS, including the National Judicial Council (NJC), UNICEF, and the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, have called for the rehabilitation…
LIBYA’s education minister has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison because of a textbook shortage dating…
FORMER Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday visited the Kaduna State Correctional Service Facility to see his former…
MORE than 1,500 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Mozambique, taking advantage of ongoing political unrest triggered by disputed…
A CHIEF Magistrate Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, has ordered the remand of three key figures in connection with last week’s…
A PARIS court on Thursday sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two…
JUSTICE Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters in prison. The judge, on…