Abdulrahman Dambazau, the Minister of Interior, has explained why the Federal Government is investing in the building of prisons across...

Lawyers in Ebonyi State under the aegis of Good Leadership and Peace Advocates of Nigeria (GOLEPAN) have blamed Nigeria Police for the...

A total number of 21 awaiting-trial inmates have been freed from the Ado-Ekiti Prisons by the Ekiti State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji...

An Enugu Magistrate Court on Tuesday ordered the Attorney-General of Enugu State and the Nigeria Prisons Service to produce detained...

Mr. Emmanuel Nwakaeze, Controller of the Anambra Command of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) says that seventy-eight percent of the...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday lamented that the only notable presence of the Federal Government in...

Nigerian Prisons Services, NPS, has insisted that its officials are not starving billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also...

President Muhammadu Buhari has suggested that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, establishes special courts within...

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a 50-year-old applicant, Rotimi Ajakaye, at Kirikiri Prisons after he pleaded...

The Overall General of Port Harcourt Maximum Security Prison, Adeosun Kazeem, has converted to Christianity. Kazeem renounced his Muslim...

The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has disclosed that over 68,000 inmates are being held in prison facilities through the country as at...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Friday alerted Nigerians of an alleged plot by Boko Haram affiliate, Muslim...

Cholera outbreak seems imminent in Owerri, following the channeling of the sewage pipe containing faeces and urine from the Nigerian...

Atilade made the pronouncement at a mini-court session conducted at the prisons, where she told the inmates to ‘Go and sin no more’. The...

Boko Haram The Federal Government has announced the re-opening of eight satellite prisons in Bauchi State earlier shut, due to the wave...

The Public Relations Officer of the Service, Francis Enobore told Daily Trust that there was an “incident” at the prison, Friday night....

Gov Rochas Okorocha The Imo state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has asked for a comprehensive list of Imo sons and daughters serving...

The President of the association, Mrs Elizabeth Ekpendu, made the pledge when she addressed members of the association in Benin. She said...

Until his new appointment, Ekpendu was Deputy Controller General (Administration). A native of Ibeku, Okwuato in Mbaise Local Government...

The Federal Government and the 36 states are to share the N10m bill for feeding about 54,642 inmates in the nation’s prisons. The...