Inmates

Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, on Tuesday, announced the forfeiture of her May salary to secure the immediate release of five inmates who could not pay their fines at the Kuje Correctional…

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has disclosed that it has so far released 3,751 inmates comprising convicts and awaiting trial persons who met the criteria set for the presidential amnesty. President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered…

The governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has pardoned fifty inmates serving in various Correctional Service Centres across the state. The governor in a statement issued on Wednesday said the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled…

Officers at the Sapele Correctional centre, Sapele in Delta State are at crossroad following the escape of two awaiting trial inmates. The escapees, 18-year-old Stanley Dangbadi and Friday Aguduma, 25, have however been declared wanted…

Chief Judge of Kwara State, Sulyman Durosinlorun, has given amnesty to 46 awaiting trial inmates of Oke Kura and Mandala custodial centres in the state as part of ongoing measures to decongest the centres over COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking…

Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State has granted an unconditional pardon to 46 inmates spread across various Correctional Centres in the state. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Attorney General and Commissioner…

As part of the efforts to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gombe State government has pardoned 28 inmates just as it intends to consciously reduce the population of prison inmates considering that physical distancing and…

The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Tuesday, gave the order for the release of 45 inmates from the Agodi Custodial Centre of the Nigerian Correctional Service in line with efforts to decongest the prisons to curb the…

The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nasiru Ajanah has released a total of thirty-five inmates awaiting trial in three correctional centres Kogi State. The correctional centres include Koton-Karfi, Kabba and Okene Nigeria Correctional…

The Chief Judge of Delta, Justice Marshal Umukoro, on Wednesday, released 73 inmates at the Ogwashi-Uku and Agbor Correctional Centres in Delta. Umukoro, who spoke with newsmen shortly after the exercise, stated that the gesture was part…