The Assistant Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) visited the Kuje Correctional Centre as part of an inquest into the death of Rwandan national Benjamin Relasss, and preliminary findings have pointed to serious negligence on the part of the facility’s medical officer, sources inside the prison have told SaharaReporters. According to the sources,…
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board has dismissed an Assistant Superintendent of Corrections assigned to the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC) in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Efe Onakpoya for alleged whistleblowing. SaharaReporters learnt that Efe was sacked for exposing how a colleague, Ogbule Samuel Obinna, who took an inmate out of the Ebonyi…
Former British prison officer jailed 15 months after tape with inmate goes viral A former UK British prison officer, Linda De Sousa Abreu has been jailed 15 months after her tape with an inmate went viral. According to reports, the British former prison officer at HMP Wandsworth, United Kingdom was caught on camera being intimate…
The Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Tessy Diai, granted freedom to an inmate, Mr Napue Chitu, during her quarterly visit to the Warri Correctional Centre. Speaking during the visit on Thursday, Justice Diai noted that a total of 379 warrants were reviewed, disclosing that the release of the inmate was based on the advice…
The police have shut the popular Wuse market in Abuja following the recent crisis in the market. PREMIUM TIMES reported that crisis broke out in the market on Tuesday after an inmate, identified as Ibrahim Yahaya, 27, was shot dead by security operatives as he tried to escape from custody. No fewer than 10 shops…
