LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a bold move to strengthen the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the recruitment of 5,000 personnel into the service. The announcement came from Mr. Sylvester Nwakuche Ndidi, the Acting Comptroller General of the NCoS, during his appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Reformatory Institutions,…
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 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) have resumed discussions to find constructive ways of addressing all encumbrances to the participation of inmates in the electoral process. Both organisations had been meeting to determine the best way of giving prisoners the opportunity to exercise their franchise. A…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said that the former Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, was safe in custody as there was no threat to his life. The Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Mr Francis Enobore, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Enobore said that it was necessary…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Mohammed Sani, a serving Deputy Comptroller of Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, was on Friday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Hadiza Sabi’u Shagari of the Federal High Court Katsina on a six count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense. The defendant allegedly used his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has approved the suspension of 3 officers and 6 other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated in the alleged internet fraud by an inmate. Mr. Francis Enobore, the Public Relation Officer of NCoS disclosed this in a statement to NAN on…