Tag: prison
4 month-old baby remanded in prison with mom over assault
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 4-month old breast feeding baby, Akachi Keneth, is cooling his heels at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison pending…
Man sent to prison for slapping wife’s friend over gossip
A 44-year-old man has been arrested and charged before a Magistrates’ court sitting in Ejigbo and remanded in prison for…
Son attacks father with machete
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 20-year-old youth has been arrested and charged before Magistrates’ court sitting in Ejigbo for inflicting injury on…
2 traders land in prison for removing another trader’s teeth
Paul Iyoghojie Two housewives who are traders at Daddy Alaja market, Oke Arin, Lagos Island, western Nigeria, have been arraigned…
Four cyber crime offenders face criminal charge
AKIN KUPONYI Special Fraud Unit, (SFU),of Nigeria Police Force, Ikoyi, southwest Ngeria, has arraigned a lady and three men before…
Husband, wife sent to prison for human trafficking
Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at Ikotun division have rescued a 20-year-old youth, Godspower Otache, allegedly kept in captivity for several…
Woman sent to prison a week to her wedding
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 33-year-old woman Olawunmi Oyebode has been arrested and remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri for assault. This…
Man, 88, faces trial over N100m Lekki land fraud
Cyriacus Izuekwe For allegedly defrauding more than 15 victims of over N100m in land scam in Lekki Resettlement Schemes in…
Accountant lands in prison over alleged N20m fraud
Paul Iyoghojie Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, Milvertaon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, have arraigned a former…
Surety sent to prison for assaulting IPO
YUSUF MUHAMMED A 38-year-old man, Damola Adeola, who stood surety for 35-year-old Kolawole Michael, has been arrested by the police…
2 landlords land in prison over alleged theft
Paul Iyoghojie Two landlords and community leaders at Ajah, Eti Osa LGA of Lagos State, western Nigeria, Samodu Jimoh Abudu,…
FG to install cameras in prisons to check jailbreaks
The Federal Ministry of Interior on Thursday said it would soon install surveillance cameras in prisons to check cases of…
N8m property lands three in prison
Paul Iyoghojie The police at Ikoyi Division, Lagos, western Nigeria, have arrested a staff of SCOA Nigeria Plc, Grace Akpan,…
Boko Haram attacks prison in Niger, four killed
NIAMEY, (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on the prison in the southern Niger town of Diffa…
From Govt House to Prison: Sule Lamido, 2 sons remanded in Kano prison
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano Weeks ago, Sule Lamido of Jigawa was leaving in a palatial Government House as governor of the state…
Man sent to prison for standing as surety for fleeing wife
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 42-year-old man, Joshua Apanisile, has been remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri after standing as surety for…
Imprisonment not end of your life, Cleric tells inmates
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta An erudite scholar and the Chief Imam of Sa’adatul Adabiyya Society of Nigeria, Ustaz Ismael Abdul Lateef has…
Two men remanded in prison over N465.7m fraud
Henry Ojelu Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, Wednesday remanded two men at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons…
I’ll rehabilitate Zaria Prison, says El-Rufai
Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State, said on Saturday that the state government would rehabilitate the Zaria Prison at a…
One dead in Zimbabwe prison riot over food
One prisoner in one of Zimbabwe’s most notorious jails has died after hundreds of inmates rioted over the poor quality…
Court remands 20 illegal oil dealers in prison
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria today ordered twenty accused persons alongside one ship MV…
Jailbreak: Lawyer tells FG to carry out thorough reforms on prisons
Mr Panaf Olakanmi, a legal practitioner with Panaf Chambers in Abuja, on Monday advised the Federal Government to carry out…
Pistorius could get ‘separate accommodation’ in prison
South Africa’s department of correctional services on Thursday said disabled prisoners could be entitled to separate accommodation, in a statement…
3 Women In Prison For Fighting Over Man
Cyriacus Izuekwe The biblical prediction that in the last days, seven women will cling to one man seems to be…
2 Suspected Car Snatchers Sent To Jail
An Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded two men, Iyanda Dauda and Idris Tirimisiyu, at Agodi Prisons for allegedly…
8 Fake Corpers Sent To Prison
Nemesis has caught up with eight fake members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, after they were arrested, charged…
Ex-Egypt leader, Mubarak leaves prison
Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been released from prison, following a court order. Egypt’s state TV reported that a…
2 Jailed For Stealing Bus
Abdullahi Issa, aged 22, of Tomi Hotel, Suleija in Niger state and Fatai Aweda, 20, of Gidan Alhaji Usman Baba…
Woman Jailed 150 Days
An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court on Monday, sentenced mother of one, Maimuna Al-Hassan, 20, of Angwa Beri Beri, Life Camp,…
How Gunmen raided Damaturu Prison
Bombers, gunmen spared Nigerian churches and their worshippers today. But they seemed to have another target in mind as they…