Tag: Prison

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Basit Akangbe, to six months imprisonment for trafficking ...

President Muhammad Buhari has granted presidential pardon to 2,600 inmates of Correctional Centres nationwide, according to the Minister of Interior, ...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Oyo State on Thursday ordered that three friends, who allegedly beat a man to ...

A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja on Friday ordered that a 37 -year-old man, Mathew Olateju, who allegedly defiled 11-year-old step-daughter,  ...

Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court Ibadan, on Monday sentenced a 40-year-old serial drug dealer, David Ndidi, to ...

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) says it did not record any jailbreak in the country in 2019. The Service Public ...

A Lagos State Magistrates Court in Igbosere Wednesday convicted and sentenced a 35, year-old pastor, Michael Njoteah to two years ...

A court in Vietnam has jailed a journalist known for his criticism of the ruling Communist Party for 10 years ...

An FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Mohammed Atabo, PTA Chairman, Parents Teachers Association (PTA) to 198 years imprisonment for forgery. ...

55-year-oid Adelakin Adeniyi on Wednesday bagged three years imprisonment for forging Magistrates' Court stamp. Magistrate Habibat Basiru of an Osun ...

An Osun State Magistrates' Court sitting in Ipetumodu on Monday, sentenced a fake lawyer, one Melvin Oromidayo, (37), to three ...

No fewer than 44 inmates have been set free by the Ekiti Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daraamola. The inmates comprise ...

A 35-year-old woman, Stella Olowofoyekun, was, on Friday, remanded in a correctional centre by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in ...

The Delta state Chief Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro has ordered the released 48 awaiting trial inmates from Kwale and Ugwashi-Uku ...

The Embassy of Nigeria in Chad on Friday said no fewer than 102 Nigerians were in the country’s prisons, serving ...