LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Igbo community in Sokoto State marked Christmas Day with detained Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu at the Nigerian Correctional Centre. The community described the humanitarian gesture inspired by the disposition of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu During the visit, the community shared meals with the inmates at…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility in an overnight explosion of violence that engulfed much of the capital. At least five people were dead Sunday. The jailbreak marked a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of violence and came as gangs step up coordinated attacks…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), formerly Nigerian Prisons Service, has written to President Bola Tinubu to complain about alleged corruption and poor remuneration in the service. According to the aggrieved official, the NCS personnel were being poorly paid and treated unfairly unlike their colleagues in other departments at the…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A warder attached to the Kirikiri Custodial Centre, Lagos State, Kayode Fatombi, has been arrested by the police for allegedly aiding the escape of some prison inmates. Sunday PUNCH gathered that three men were arrested by the police for alleged robbery and kidnapping. They were subsequently arraigned before the Lagos State High…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of inmates from custodial centres across the country. Aregbesola made this known on Sunday when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Whenever the name KIRIKIRI comes to my hearing, I quickly feel melted within me as I carefully imagine what the inmates in the prison would be experiencing at the very moment. Kirikiri happens to be a rural area in the Amuwo-Odofin LGA of Lagos State. The prison we’re talking about gained its…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Soldiers and Policemen are currently stationed and at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre in a bid to foil an attempted jailbreak. The Nation learnt that the prison authorities notified the police and the military authorities for backup. An anonymous eyewitness said, “I can see them from my house at the moment. Soldiers and…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Due to the widespread of Coronavirus epidemic in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has consented to let go of some individuals from correctional centres to reduce congestion which may likely have an impact on the global epidemic in the country. It is understood that President Buhari had recently constituted a Presidential Committee for…
