The Federal Government has released a total of 4068 inmates in all the custodial centres across the country in an effort to decongest the custodial centres in the country. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, while flagging off payment of fines and
Onyeama said the release of the prisoners could not be facilitated because there was no existing agreement between Nigeria and China on transfer of prisoners.
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A total of 25 inmates, out of the 1,900 inmates, who escaped from Oko and Sapele Road Correctional Center popularly called White House, Benin last Monday when hoodlums masquerading as #EndSARS protesters stormed the two prisons, have voluntarily surrendered
Nigerians now live like prisoners in their own homes. In major cities and towns, including rural communities, people's homes are barricaded with corrugated iron sheets as burglary proofs on windows and doors.
The videos below show two of the prisoners talking about how long they have been in jail. "My IPO Inspector Dele unlawfully detained me for 2years and ate all my money" one of the freed prisoners revealed.
Speaking after the act, the Pope said to the prisoners of the city's all-male Regina Coeli prison; "Everyone always has the opportunity to change life and one cannot judge."
Kano can conveniently accommodate just 2,116 prisoners. Rivers has one of the worst prisoner congestion ratio as it can take only 1,354, compared to the 4,424 prisoners it accommodates at present.
Israel has agreed to a compromise proposed by the United States regarding the number of Palestinian prisoners that will be released in a potential temporary truce and hostage release deal, according to Hebrew media outlets.
The South-South zonal forum of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners has called for the harmonization of their pensions to be a living wage. A communique signed by the Chairman, William Seleipere and the Secretary, Obong Cosmas Essien and made available to our
"In his letter, dated 27th December, 2017, and addressed to the Comptroller of Prisons, Governor Akeredolu advised that the affected prisoners be released. "All the prisoners have served portions of their various sentences.
As usual, the prisoners stretched out their hands through the tiny holes by the sides of the van and the Gala seller's next action surprised everyone. He took the Gala he was selling and began distributing to the prisoners for free.
"I gave the prisoners money out of pity, Though I am very poor and sell pure water, I still have my Freedom, I can eat whatever I want to eat and go anywhere I want to go, but the prisoners do not have that freedom," he said.
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Adams Oshiomhole, has stated that prisoners from foreign countries are being ferried into Nigeria to work at construction sites.