Tag: Nigerian Correctional Service
Lawan urges security agencies to halt smuggling of petroleum products
Tasks them to improve border security
Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday met with heads of security and paramilitary agencies and tasked them to...
Senate probes jail breaks across Nigeria
Summons Interior Minister, Aregbesola, AGF Malami, NCS CG, Nababa
The Senate on Tuesday mandated its Committee on Interior to carry out a full-scale investigation...
42 inmates write SSCE in Jos
Forty-two inmates in Jos Correctional Centre are writing the ongoing November/December Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) of the National Examination Council (NECO).
ASC Longdiem Godfrey,...
Anambra Polls: IPOB declares sit-at-home on election day
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has declared a five-day sit-at-home in all states in South East of Nigeria from 5th to 10th...
Gunmen invade Oyo prison, free inmates
An unknown number of prisoners have escaped after an attack by gunmen on the Medium Security Custodial Centre in the Abolongo area of Oyo...
Gunmen attack Kogi prison, free 240 inmates
Not less than 240 prisoners have escaped after an attack on the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC) in Kabba, Kogi State by unidentified armed...
Senate president condemns attacks on correctional facilities
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has decried recent attacks on Police formations and Correctional facilities in Imo.
A statement by Mr Ola Awoniyi, the Senate...
FG reveals the identities of fleeing Imo inmates
The Nigerian Correctional Service has released the names and faces of 36 of the over 1,800 inmates that escaped from the Correctional Centre in...
EFCC arraigns Comptroller of Prisons for employment scam
Abubakar Mohammed Sani, a serving Deputy Comptroller of Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, was today arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before...
EFCC docks Babangida for oil fraud
The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, arraigned one Abubakar Mohammed Babangida alongside his...
