IN what can be described as a case of justice delayed but not denied, the Chief Judge of Rivers State,…
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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…
HUMAN rights organisation, Amnesty International, has alleged that more than 1,000 #EndBadGovernance hunger and hardship protesters are being held in…
A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, be remanded in Kuje…
SUSPENDED Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has been released from the Kuje Custodial Centre in the Federal Capital Territory…
SENATE President Godswill Akpabio has said Nigeria has experienced more jailbreaks since the change of name from prison service to…
INMATES at the Jos Correctional Centre in Plateau State protested on Friday over the plan to reduce their food ration.…
A MAGISTRATE court sitting in Noman’s land, Kano, on Tuesday remanded popular political commentator, Dan Bilki Kwamanda, in prison custody.…
THE Nigerian Correctional Service Katsina State Command said it has recaptured two inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial…
BOKO Haram arms supplier and detained Nigerian soldier, Abba Gesh, has escaped from the Joint Investigation Centre (JIC), a military…
DEREK Chauvin, the US police officer whose murder of George Floyd sparked massive racial justice protests in 2020, was stabbed…