An Iranian filmmaker, Mohammad Rasoulof, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a criminal offence. Rasoulof’s lawyer, Babak Paknia, wrote on his X platform...
The detained executive of cryptocurrency firm, Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, on Monday, pleaded not guilty to the money laundering charges preferred against him by the...
One David Ojonugwa, 25, has been reminded in prison custody by an Ebute-Metta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly stealing the sum of N54,142,000 from...
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday sentenced one Ugochukwu Onuoha to life imprisonment for defiling his...
A 26-year-old woman identified as Omorogbe Jennifer Soni, has been remanded in the Kirikiri Female Correctional Centre by a Lagos State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ajah,...
An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, ordered the remand of 13 suspects arraigned for the killing of the Olukoro of Koro in Ekiti local government area...
CLAIM: Yoruba Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka popularly known as Baba Ijesha has been released from prison. VERDICT: False! Video is misleading FULL TEXT A YouTube account...
An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday, sentenced a serial fraudster, Olaniyan Gbenga Amos, to 75 years in prison after he was found...
In a bid to continue with the nationwide decongestion of prisons in the country, the Federal Government on Monday, paid fines and compensations put at N52...
The Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Tuesday, adjourned till January 18, 2024, the trial of a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),...
An Assistant Superintendent of Prisons at the Afokang Correctional Centre in Calabar, Cross River State, has been killed and three others injured by suspected militants who...
A Special Military Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Maj. Gen. Umaru Mohammed, to seven...
A court in Indonesia on Wednesday, sentenced a woman to two years in prison with a heavy fine after she was found guilty of reciting an...
The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, sentenced George Turnah, a former Special Adviser to erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta...
Former President of the United States, Donald Trump on Thursday, surrendered to authorities in Atlanta, Georgia, where he faces 13 criminal charges over alleged attempts to...
The Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, on Saturday, charged the Acting Chief Judge, Justice Umar Abubakar, to decongest prisons in the state. He made the call...
One of the sons of late Libyan President, Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal, has commenced a hunger strike in a Lebanese detention centre where he has been held...
Armed attackers suspected to be Islamist jihadists on Wednesday, freed over 800 prisoners from a prison in Democratic Republic of Congo. According to local authorities which...
Nigerians on social media have expressed their displeasure with the security situation in the country, especially after unidentified attackers freed hundreds of inmates in Kuje prison,...
The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has detailed the rationale behind the reluctance of governors to sign death warrants on convicted prisoners. Ganduje made...
Hundreds of prisoners at the Medium Federal Correctional Centre in Kabba, Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, have escaped, after heavily armed gunmen attacked the...
The founder of Peruvian rebel group, Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, has died in prison at the age of 86. Guzman, who has been in prison after...
The Israeli police says it has recaptured four of the six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from a prison in Northern Israel on Monday. Announcing the feat...
Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem territories are gathering for a ‘Day of Rage’ protests on Friday, in support of six Palestinian...
Not less than 41 prisoners have been confirmed killed and eight injured, after a fire outbreak engulfed an overcrowded prison block on the outskirts of the...
A 34-year-old self-confessed lesbian, Busisiwe Labi, has been sentenced to 22 years and six months imprisonment by a South African court for killing her two children....
A Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos has remanded Chidinma Ojukwu, and Adedapo Quadri over alleged murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo...
A constitutional court in South Africa has adjourned former President Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial to August 13 after he appeared in a virtual preliminary hearing on...
Protests over the imprisonment of former South African President, Jacob Zuma, has turned violent as it entered its fourth day, with shops reportedly looted and roads...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, presented a bill seeking a five-year-jail term for ‘unlawful protesters’ in the country for consideration. The bill entitled: ‘An act...
A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Dayo Asiwaju, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty...
The arrest of the leader of the proscribed Igbo separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in London, at the behest of the Nigerian government...
An eighteen-year-old girl, Kemisola Oguniyi, arrested by soldiers in Akure, Ondo State, during the #EndSARS protests in October 2020, has given birth in prison. Following the...
A 28-year-old man, Damien Tarel, who slapped France President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, has been sentenced to four months in prison by a court in the...
Police operatives in Imo State have arrested a suspected serial kidnapper and prison escapee, Eze Obinna, in the state. Eze, who is a native of Amaimo,...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday granted pardon to 123 prison inmates in the state. Ganduje, who witnessed the release of the inmates from Goron...
An Algerian medical doctor and activist, Amira Bouraoui, has been sentenced to two years in prison after she was found guilty of insulting the President, Abdelmadjid...
The Federal Government on Friday did not mince any words in expressly condemning the spate of attacks on Custodial Centres of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS),...
Ghanaian actress, Rosemond Brown, better known as Akuapem Poloo has arrived in Nsawam Prison despite her bail that was granted on Wednesday, April 21. On Friday,...
The increase of women in Nigerian prisons has far surpassed the growth of male prisoners in the last 20 years. This is according to data from...
Alexey Navalny, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s staunchest critic who has been battling ill health while in jail has finally been moved from a penal colony to...
The Owerri Correctional Service Centre reportedly set on fire after hoodlums were said to have bombed the facility on Monday, setting hundreds of inmates free in...
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, remanded a 39-year-old man, Clement Chidi in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly robbing a policeman, Cpl. Joel Samaila of his...
A Kenyan man, Stephen Ngila, who chopped the hands of his wife, Jackline Mwende, in 2016, for not having a child for him and also cheating...
Runaway former former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, was on Friday remanded in prison custody. A Federal High Court in...
Prison authorities in Rwanda have denied claims by the Paul Rusesabagina foundation that his health is deteriorating in Kigali Prison as he awaits trial over terrorism...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has explained the reason correctional centres in the country had been rejecting new suspects sent to them by the police....
A Kwara State Chief Magistrate’s Court headed by Chief Magistrate Oladosu Abayomi, on Thursday, ordered four men trading in Kwara and Oyo states to be remanded...
An inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Facility in Port Harcourt has accused correctional officers at the establishment of torturing him. The inmate, Gracious David-West is standing...
The Police in South Africa have launched an extensive manhunt for an unspecified number of prisoners who escaped from a prison in Malmesbury, near the bustling...
