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By Chinonso Alozie Thousands of inmates who were freed by hoodlums from the Owerri correctional facility, on Monday, littered the streets of Owerri with their luggage. Vanguard visited the Owerri correctional center located along Okigwe road, and saw bags of different sizes even religious books as well as writing materials, clothes of both male and
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By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Eighteen inmates of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) studying with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) Corrections’ Special Study Centres have graduated in various disciplines. In a congratulatory message to the graduands, the Acting Controller General of Corrections, John Mrabure, charged them to see the educational advancement as a stepping
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Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday said no fewer than 465 inmates serving various jail terms in it custodial centres were currently pursuing various degree programmes.
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US President Joe Biden is taking steps to end the use of private prisons by the Department of Justice to house federal inmates, officials said Tuesday. Susan Rice, Biden’s Domestic Policy Advisor, said the president will sign an executive order later on Tuesday directing the department not to renew contracts with private prisons. “Private prisons
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Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service NCoS, CGC Ja’afaru Ahmed has urged Nigerians to support local content by patronizing inmates of its custodial centres for their shoes and garments.
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Tanzanian police said on Friday they have rearrested four inmates who escaped from prison on Monday after they had slashed a prison officer with a machete. Juma Bwire, the Iringa Regional Police Commander, said this at a news conference in Dar Es Salaam. READ ALSO: We are making Nigeria’s business environment friendlier by slashing
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By Bashir Bello Kano State Controller, Nigerian Correctional Services, NCS, Suleiman T. Suleiman has on Wednesday said seventeen inmates in its custody have sat for the West African Examinations Council, WAEC and National Examination Council, NECO external examinations in the state. The Controller, Suleiman who disclosed this while interacting with newsmen in the state, said
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BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME Inmates of the Warri correctional centre on Okere road, Warri south local government area, Delta state Thursday set some buildings inside the place on fire. The state Police Public relations officer DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya confirmed the development to the Vanguard, adding that the authorities of the correctional centre would say if any
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The Nigerian Correctional Service, Delta Command, says it has lifted embargo on the intake of new inmates, following the partial relapse of the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. The State Controller of the service, Mr. Friday Esezobor, made this known on Tuesday in Asaba when he paid a courtesy call on the state Attorney-General
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At least 19 people, among them, suspected Islamist militants, were killed in an attempted prison break in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, authorities said on Tuesday. Fifteen prisoners and four guards died in the incident on Monday at the central prison, according to Abdiqani Mohamed Qalaf, a prison spokesman on state TV. This was a
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