Tags: #prison

The Nigerian Correctional Service revealed  plans to publish names and photographs of prison escapees in the late one week. It said over 1,500 inmates who escaped from the prison at Benin...

No less than 58 inmates of the National Correctional Service Centre located in Okitipupa, the headquarters of Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State have been released by hoodlums on...

An attempted jailbreak has reportedly occurred at the Ikoyi Prisons of the Nigeria Correctional Service located in Lagos State. Videos circulating on social media suggest the Ikoyi prison has been broken...

Nigerian actor and comedian, Kunle Idowu, also known as Frank Donga, has raised some questions over the recent jail break in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Protesters around Kings Square...

Reality star, Natacha Akide aka Tacha has called the prison break in Benin as sabotage by the government in order to disrupt the ongoing #EndSARs peaceful protest. Tacha in a post...

Suspected thugs have attacked the Oko Medium Security Centre in Edo State, freeing many inmates in the process. This is coming some hours after a jailbreak at the correctional centre in...

A victim of Nigeria Police brutality has recounted her experience from running errands to spending three youthful age of her life behind bars at the age of 17. The lady identified...

Alfred Bazette, a staff of the Nigerian Correctional Service, has allegedly committed suicide after he was reportedly denied promotion three times. Peoples Gazette gathered that the microbiology graduate of the Nasarawa...

Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State, released 25 prisoners and reduced the sentence for nine others on the occasion of Nigeria’s 60th Independence. The governor disclosed this in his message...

A Nigerian man has been released from Ikoyi prison in Lagos state yesterday, September 25th, after spending seven years in there for a crime he knew nothing about. Lawyer and writer,...

The Osun State Magistrate court sitting in Ile-Ife has remanded a 27-year-old store keeper, Tunde Bamidele over an alleged N26m fraud. The Administrator-General and Public Trustee, for the Commissioner for Justice,...

One Yakubu Mekodo a 60-year-old cashier has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Monday, for embezzling N9.1...

A North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit was freed on Thursday. Mr Ronnie Long, 64, was a 20-year-old Black man living in...

Olalekan Ponle, a Nigerian held in the United States for alleged multi-million-dollar fraud, has been indicted by the grand jury, a group of lawyers empowered to conduct legal proceedings and...

The Federal Government on Thursday granted amnesty to no fewer than 2,600 inmates as part of measures to decongest prison facilities in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, The PUNCH...

Following the “Stay at home” instruction advised by FG in other to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus disease, former Big Brother Naija housemate, Khloe has taken to Instagram...

The four policemen attached to the Iba police division who were dismissed by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing two young men they arrested in August, have been...