Tags: #prison

American rapper, Bobby Shmurda has been released from prison today February 23, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has confirmed. Shmurda, 26, whose legal name is Ackquille...

Nigerian singer, Sanni Wasiu, popularly known as Lil frosh, is to be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre till March 9, 2021 over the alleged assault on his ex-girlfriend, Okeoghene...

The Controller of Kaduna Correctional Service, Ibrahim Maradun has reacted to claim that Zeenah, wife of leader of Islamic Movement of Nigeria Ibrahim El-Zakzaky tested positive for coronavirus in prison. Recall...

A 20-year-old school leaver, Peter Nwoke has been arrested for allegedly leaking a ‘sex video’ of a lawyer and Federal Commissioner of Imo State Office of Public Complaints Commission, Chief...

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, otherwise known as Shi’ites, has lamented the continued incarceration of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah Ibrahim, alleging that they may...

A 20-year-old school leaver, Peter Nwoke has been arrested for allegedly leaking a ‘sex video’ of lawyer and Federal Commissioner of Imo State Office of Public Complaints Commission, Chief Willie Amadi naked in a room...

A bartender has landed in serious trouble after stealing his boss’ ATM and withdrawing money with it. A court in Ibadan has found a bartender guilty of fraud. Godwin Job, 35 was...

North Korean are been worked to death br Kim Jong-un and made into 'Human Fertilizers', a chilling news report claims itizens caught trying to flee.  The authouritarian state are reportedly forced to...

An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, has sentenced one Pastor Odenigbo Theophilus to seven years in prison for defrauding a retiree, Mr. Ojo Gbadebo, of the sum of N1...

The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has disclosed how the Founder and President of LoveWorld Incorporated, also known as Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, told him that he...

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Lateef Agboola, to six months imprisonment for trafficking in Cannabis. NAN reports that Agboola, who was arraigned by the...

A 34-year-old man Paul Oguntayo has been remanded by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding admission seekers to the tune of N585,000. The accused person committed the offence in October...

A man who was allegedly jailed for a crime he did not commit has finally been released after spending 5 years in prison. The sad story was shared by a Twitter...

Abdulrasheed Maina’s surety, Senator Ali Ndume got on bail on Friday after five days in Kuje Correctional Centre. Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja directed his release. The judge...

Chaos broke out at the Agodi community of Ibadan, Oyo state capital following a conflict between okada riders and officials of the Agodi prison. It was allegedly reported that the clash...

Court has reportedly ordered the remand of #ENDSARS protesters who were arrested while protesting at the National Assembly complex in Abuja on Friday, November 6. According to reports, a magistrate court...

Nigerians have taken to the social media to ask funny questions after former South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak was sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment over alleged corruptions. We understands that the...

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...