In March 2018, a federal high court in Abuja sentenced Charles Okah to life imprisonment for masterminding the Independence Day bombings in the federal capital territory (FCT) in 2010. From
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Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track corruption in Nigeria’s
Mohammed Rimi, Nigerian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, says a total of 446 Nigerians are currently serving different terms in the UAE prisons. Rimi disclosed this during President Muhammadu
The senate has invited Ja’afaru Ahmed, comptroller-general of Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), over the confinement of underaged offenders and infants with adults. The decision of the upper legislative chamber was
The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has said 66 per cent of inmates in prisons are awaiting trial. Jaafaru Ahmed, controller
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the state of the nation’s prisons as a national scandal. Speaking when he hosted judges on Friday,
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has said its leader, Henry Okah, is dying in a
The federal government has approved N3.5 billion for the procurement of 320 operational vehicles to convey prison inmates to courts
Aminu Suley, a deputy controller-general and Ali Bala Salami, an assistant controller-general of have been retired from the Nigerian Prisons
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