The defendant made the allegation on Tuesday when he was dragged to the High Court with a charge of defilement.
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Bartholomew Onyeka announced this when he presented him and other suspects to the media on Monday in Jos.
Demi Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for stabbing her former foster father to death, was moved from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility.
Chief Judge of the State, Justice Musa Nathan, confirmed this to newsmen in Yola, the State capital, affirming that the freed imates included six females.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Anjorin Olanrewaju, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Ibadan.
There was a skirmish at the centre when some awaiting trial inmates, especially recaptured escapees, started a protest which led to a confrontation between them and convicted inmates.
Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Armed Attack On Abolongo Custodial Centre.’
Its Public Relations Officer, Olanrewaju Anjorin, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Ibadan.
Aliyu Abubakar, the Director-General of the council, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday on the sidelines of a two-day working visit to Lagos State.
The spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr. Francis Enobore, confirmed the incident in a statement on Monday, stating that the attack took place at about midnight on Sunday.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Malam Abba Anwar, disclosed this in a statement in Kano.
Yahuza who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lafia said the inmates were reading for various degrees in different disciplines.
Monday Chukwuemeka, Public Relations Officer of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Enugu State Command, disclosed this in a statement in Enugu on Wednesday.
Navy and Air Force Commanders, the Inspector-General of Police, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other stakeholders are reportedly expected to be present at the meeting.
Our correspondent recalls that 1,884 inmates were freed when the gunmen struck the Correctional Centre and the Imo State Police Command headquarters in Owerri, respectively.
The gunmen were said to have operated with no fewer than 10 vehicles at about 2am, setting free some inmates.
President Muhammad Buhari has granted presidential pardon to 2,600 inmates of Correctional Centres nationwide, according to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbeshola.
Aregbesola, who made this known while addressing a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, said 70 of the inmates would be released from Kuje Maximum Custodial Centre
He said: “After the release of the first phase, the committee will continue to meet regularly to consider those who deserve the benefit.”
The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Tuesday released 26 inmates from Agodi Prison in Ibadan and told them to sin no more.
Diko pardoned the inmates on Thursday at the end of his four-day tour of prison formations across the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the freed inmates were mostly convicts who had been of good behavior or nearing the end of their jail terms and those with serious health challenges.