Tag: Prisons

The federal government is constructing mega 3,000-capacity custodial villages in the six geo-political zones of the country to cater for ...

The Philippine Department of Justice said it had indicted the former head of the Bureau of Corrections, Gerald Bantag, for ...

Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Service should train or replace officers who ‘cannot shoot ...

No fewer than 3,145 inmates are on death row in custodial centres across Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports spokesman to the ...

Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba, on Wednesday, freed 33 inmates of three out of thẹ five Custodial Centres ...

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Members of the House of Representatives have raised an alarm over the trend of Nigerians being illegally detained in prisons ...

The Lagos State Government is set to bring down the number of inmates awaiting trial in prisons across the State ...

The Senate on Wednesday summoned the Controller-General, Prisons, Mr Ahmed Ja’afaru, to appear before its Committee on Interior, to explain ...

No few than 1,574 inmates out of 1,761 prisoners in Anambra are currently awaiting trial for various offences, the state’s ...