AdminOct 13, 20192 min readFayemi frees 17 prisoners [SEE LIST]Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has released 17 prisoners serving jail terms for various offences in the State. The...
AdminMay 30, 20181 min readDemocracy Day: Governor Akeredolu pardons 11 prisoners in OndoGov Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has granted amnesty to 11 prisoners serving various jail terms. This formed part of the...
AdminJan 29, 20182 min read430 prisoners to become degree holdersNo fewer than 430 prisoners across the country are pursuing various degree programmes at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)....
AdminDec 28, 20171 min read36 prisoners escape from Ikot Ekpene Prison in Akwa-IbomThere was an attack on kitchen staff on duty at Ikot Ekpene Prison in Akwa-Ibom State by some prisoners around noon on Wednesday. This is...
AdminOct 25, 20171 min readPrisoners to take part in 2019 election – INECThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced plan for prison inmates to start exercising their voting right from...
AdminOct 6, 20171 min readNassarawa First lady, Mairo Al-Makura secures release of 70 prisonersThe First Lady of Nassarawa State, Mairo Al-Makura, has secured the freedom of no fewer than 70 inmates of Lafia Prison. She reportedly...
AdminOct 3, 20171 min readGovernor Akeredolu frees 30 prisonersGovernor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has officially pardoned 30 prisoners in the state. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the...
AdminSep 2, 20171 min readSallah: Ganduje pardons 350 prisonersGovernor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday, visited Kano Central Prison and Goron Dutse Prison to release 200 and 150...
AdminJul 28, 20171 min readPrisoners to start having sex in jail – MinisterThe Minister of National Security in Jamaica, Robert Montague, has announced that prisoners in the country are to be allowed conjugal...
AdminFeb 12, 20172 min readStop executing prisoners – UK, EU tell Nigeria governmentBritish High Commissioner, Paul T. Arkwright, has supported the position of European Union Heads of Mission against death penalty in...
AdminAug 11, 20161 min read“We don’t know the number of prisoners that escaped” – ComptrollerThis is also as Mr. Isaiah Amariri, comptroller, Enugu state prisons, told journalists on Thursday that six of the escapee prisoners...
AdminJun 9, 20161 min readGovernor Amosun pardons 17 prisoners, commutes four death sentencesThe governor’s gesture favoured: Wale Ibidapo Ogungbade, Emmanuel Obi, Oshilaru Abiodun, Wasiu Raimi, Abiola Samuel, Obi Moses, Abiodun...
AdminOct 17, 20151 min readKano Government releases 15 prisonersA statement issued by the Kano State High Court of Justice and signed by its Public Relations Officer, Malam Baba Jibi, said that the...
AdminJun 2, 20151 min readNasarawa Chief Judge pardons 16 prisonersDikko pardoned the inmates in Lafia Prison during a four-day tour of prisons across the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
AdminMar 15, 20131 min readSuspected Boko Haram members break into prison in Borno, sets inmates freeA huge number of Gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Islamic group, Boko Haram were said to have attacked a Prison in Gwoza...
AdminFeb 25, 20133 min readBoko Haram posts video of kidnapped French family on YouTubeThe video that France’s foreign minister called “terribly shocking” represented the first images of the family to emerge since their...
