LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-California is granting early release to 3,500 inmates in an effort to reduce crowding as coronavirus infections begin spreading through the state prison system. Lawyers for Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday told a panel of federal judges the state is taking “extraordinary and unprecedented protective measures” to slow the spread of the…
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…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran has issued its most dire warning about coronavirus, suggesting ‘millions’ could die in the Islamic Republic if the public keeps ignoring health guidance. A state television journalist who is also a medical doctor gave the warning after Shiite faithful pushed their way into the courtyards of two major shrines that had…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prisons across the UK could be forced to release low-category inmates to control the spread of coronavirus across the British justice system. General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association Steve Gillan this morning said that some prisoners across sites in the UK have already been forced to self-isolate within the prisons due to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Borno State Government has said about 1,400 repentant Boko Haram suspects have been released by the military and rehabilitated into society. The Borno State Commissioner for Information, Babakura Jato, told The PUNCH during an interview on Monday that 1, 400 had been released in three tranches since the ‘Operation Safe Corridor’…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Friday that the release of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, from detention by the Federal Government was based on compassionate grounds. He also said in a statement by his…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), says he has directed the Department of State Services to release the immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki; and #RevolutionNow protest convener, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, from custody. As of the time of filing this report on Tuesday, our Correspondent…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja, will, on Dec. 23, rule on a suit filed by Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow, to demand for his unconditionally release from the Department of State Service (DSS)’s detention. Sowore, in a motion ex-parte number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1409/19, filed by his lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, before Justice Inyang Ekwo, demanded…