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...
A total of 153 inmates in Bauchi State who could not afford to pay fines ranging between N5,000 to N10,000 imposed on them by the Courts...
The Federal government has reached an agreement with Spain to allow sentenced prisoners wishing to complete their time in Nigeria to do so. The agreement was...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi on Tuesday granted clemency to 12 inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Ado Ekiti Custodian Centre. The state’s Attorney...
Pope Francis on Sunday made a rare outing from Vatican City to celebrate a mass of “divine mercy” with prisoners, refugees and health workers. The service...
The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has assured fugitives who escaped from the custodial centre in Owerri, the Imo capital, of amnesty if they willfully...
The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa has disclosed that the commission was working together with the government of Saudi Arabia to...
The Kwara State government led by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has granted executive pardon to no fewer than 101 prisoners in the state in...
The Federal Government said on Wednesday it had secured the release of 60 out of the 73 Nigerians serving various jail terms in Tanzanian prisons. The...
The Nasarawa State Government on Wednesday released about 115 inmates from the six correctional centres in the state as a way of further curbing the spread...
The Ekiti State Government said on Monday it would release the “low risk” inmates of the Ado Ekiti Correctional Centre to further check the spread of...
Ekiti state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Sunday granted parole to eighteen prisoners serving various jail terms in the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ado-Ekiti and Kirikiri Maximum...
No fewer than 18 prisoners were granted parole by the Ondo State government across the various prisons in the state. It also commuted to life imprisonment...
Following a failed jailbreak on Thursday, Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has declared a state of emergency on Abakaliki Prisons. He made the declaration when...
Enugu State Controller of Nigeria Prisons Service, Mr Isaiah Amariri, said on Thursday that it has re-arrested six of the inmates that escaped from Nsukka Prisons...
The Angolan government is seeking to de-congest its overcrowded prisons by freeing thousands of inmates convicted with prison sentences of up to 12 years as authorities...
Fresh reports have shown how the two inmates of the Kuje Maximum Prison, Abuja, took advantage of the ongoing Ramadan fast to escaped on Friday night....
Zimbabwe’s Preisdent Robert Mugabe has literarily emptied the country’s prison as he has set free all female prisoners, except those of death row, or serving life...
In what is described as new dawn of bilateral relationship, the U.S. has lifted economic sanctions against Iran in a move which is coming after the...
A joint mission by Afghan and U.S. special forces freed at least 60 Afghan security personnel from a Taliban prison overnight. A helicopter assault mission was...
