Armed men have broken into a prison in Sierra Leone, setting many inmates free. BBC reports that the gunmen hit the Central Pademba Road prison in the wee hours of
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Uju Kennedy, minister of women affairs, says many female inmates in Niger state are denied freedom over their inability to pay court-imposed fines. In a post on her Twitter page


Agba Jalingo, the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, has been released from the medium-security custodial center in Kuje, federal capital territory (FCT).

A chief magistrate court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital, has remanded Ephraim Nwuzi, lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma federal constituency, in