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...
An Enugu Chief Magistrate Court has remanded a couple, Mr. Jude Ozougwu and Ifeoma Ozougwu in prison custody for allegedly punishing a 10-year-old girl, Nneoma Nnadi,...
The last may not have been heard about the attempted prison break by inmates of the Kaduna Correctional Centre, as reports say about eight of the...
A pastor, Okpara Apollos, has been remanded in a correctional Centre by an Ebonyi State Magistrate Court sitting in Abakaliki, the state capital, for defiling a...
A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court has ordered a 35-year-old headmaster, Kabiru Husaini to be remanded in prison custody till April 14, when his trial for allegedly...
A robbery suspect, Ehuiwe Akire, has narrated how he and his gang carry out their operations while robbing bank customers of their money after leaving banking...
A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu who was recently sentenced to 12 years in jail has filed a post-conviction bail application. Kalu, who...
The Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial district, Chukwuka Utazi, on Friday, decried the poor treatment of prison inmates in Nigeria. He said prison inmates in Nigeria...
A 40-year-old suspect named Solaja Wasiu has been remanded by a Modakeke Magistrate Court in Osun State over alleged Canadian visa fraud. The Prosecutor, Inspector Ona...
A clergyman, Pastor Basil Princewill, founder of Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the FCT High Court Maitam...
The Iyaganku Chief Magistrates Court, Ibadan, on Tuesday ordered that a 24-year-old suspect named Ogunlade and his accomplices accused of strangling a woman to death be...
A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on Tuesday, sentenced a 22-year-old baker, Lawal Kamoru, to 13 years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old girl. The convict...
A 67-year-old businesswoman, Wuraola Folashade Oluloye, was on Tuesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. after her arrest for hacking a First Bank Plc account...
Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi who was overthrown by the military in 2013 after a year in office, collapsed in Cairo court...
Two suspects, who allegedly attempted to smuggle illegal substances into Ikoyi Prison premises have been arrested by the Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Prison Service...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Mr Uno Michael Eke of Micheno Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society before Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal...
A fake lawyer, Sunday Ejiofor has been sentenced to three years in prison by a chief magistrates’ court in Choba, Rivers State. The police prosecutor, Tom...
A child identified as Mmerichukwu, who was stolen at the age of seven in 2012 has been recovered by the Police in Anambra and reunited with...
