From Mike Tayese, Yenagoa The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has launched a comprehensive initiative aimed at decongesting correctional facilities and improving the welfare of inmates...
Marking the Holy Year of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis opened a Holy Door at a prison in Rome on Thursday, offering a message of hope...
By Mike Odiakose, Abuja Immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello will spend the 2024 Christmas and 2025 New Year days in Kuje prison, Abuja,...
Ogun Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu, has granted amnesty to 14 inmates as part of efforts to decongest the state correctional centres. The decongestion exercise...
Labour unions in Kwara have praised Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for composition and inauguration of the state tripartite committee for the consequential adjustment on the new minimum...
The Imo Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Friday, handed over a prison escapee, re-arrested by the corps, to the Nigeria...
From Dan Amasingha, Minna A senior officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Niger State Command, Assistant Controller of Corrections, (ACC) Abdulrahman Ibrahim Gegele has regained his...
A 27-year-old convict, Ibrahim Yahaya, has been shot dead in Abuja by some corrections personnel, after he allegedly jumped down from the vehicle conveying him to...
A Federal High Court on Monday ordered that Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), charged with alleged sexual...
Another 42 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to be released on Saturday as part of the agreement between the Israeli government and the Islamist Hamas...