LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- At least 16 inmates were killed in a central Mexico prison and five others wounded after a bloody two-and-a-half hour riot. Four guns – believed to have been smuggled in during prison visits on Tuesday, where found at the scene of the violent melee at the Cienguillas state prison in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGRS)-In the spirit of the Christmas season, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed two Executive Orders, with one commuting death sentences of three convicted inmates to life imprisonment and the other setting free six others. Sanwo-Olu’s Media Aide, Gboyega Akosile, said in a statement that the governor also commuted death sentences…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Koton Karfe custodial centre in Kogi has collapsed under heavy flooding, loading to escape of 228 inmates. The Comptorller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Jafar Ahmed, who confirmed this while speaking with newsmen in Koton Kafe on Monday said that the flood came at about 3a.m., submeging the perimetre fence…