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The Kebbi State Government has facilitated the release of 111 inmates of correctional centres as part of Federal Government’s process to protect inmates from contracting COVID-19 across the country. The…

Inmates of the Kaduna Central Correctional Centre are protesting the congestion in their cells following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The inmates who are alleged to have engaged prison…

Some gunmen attacked Minna medium security prison in Niger state on Sunday, killing an official of the Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) and a commercial motorcyclist. The gunmen, who were said…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday pardoned 500 inmates of the Kurmawa Central Prisons in Kano metropolis as part of Federal Government’s efforts to decongest prisons. Buhari granted the pardon when…

Nigeria’s Prison population of 65,000 inmates are currently under the threat of starvation following the non-payment of ration and gas suppliers since 2015. Saturday Vanguard gathered that the Federal Government…

A man, Bayo Abdulrahman, and a woman, Shadiat Obafemi, yesterday, appeared in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for allegedly trafficking 100 grammes and 1.1 kilogrammes of hemp at the…

Over 70 prisoners broke out of a prison in the Southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday just two days after thousands escaped from the capital’s main penitentiary. According to…

Boko Haram has released the video of five “commanders” that were swapped by Nigerian authorities on 6 May in exchange for 82 Chibok schools girls. All the five insurgents shown…