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Cleric raises alarm over young girls, boys in prisons
The Vice Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Enugu chapter, Dr Levi Muonanu, on Sunday, raised an alarm…
CJ plans Community Service Centres to decongest prisons
The FCT Chief Judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, has promised to establish Community Service Centre to decongest the prisons and encourage…
Inquest ordered into failed Warri jail break, …heads to roll
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Sequel to the failed jail break and riot at the federal prisons in Warri, Delta state on…
Federal High Court Upholds Prisoner’s Right To Vote
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Many Nigerian politicians do not see their campaign train going to the prisons across the country but that…
Edo prison inmates acquire computer engineering skill
Jethro Ibileke/Benin No fewer than 23 inmates of the Nigeria Prison Service (NPS), were Thursday empowered with computer engineering skills…
Confab: Over 2,000 Nigerians in prisons abroad
The National Conference Committee on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Matters said on Tuesday that no fewer than 2,048 Nigerians are…
100 Nigerian prisoners languish in Morocco
Senator Abdallah Wali, Nigeria’s ambassador to Morocco, on Sunday said no fewer than 100 Nigerians were languishing in Moroccan Prisons.…
ALUU 4: Death Penalty Or Nothing
By Wale Odunsi So there are many more mad people in this country than I thought? So the outlaws in…
Over 80 per cent of Ogun state prisoners await trial
No fewer than 1,660 inmates out of the 2,016 inmates in prisons in Ogun State are currently awaiting trial for…
Archbishop Urges Police, Judiciary To Hasten Prison Decongestion
The Most Reverend Valerian Okeke, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, has urged the police and the judiciary to…
Jail Break in Yola Prison
A jail break has been reported by the News agency of Nigeria in Adamawa state, in Nigeria’s north east. The…