The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang, confirmed this development when he briefed State House correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday.
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The Nigeria Prison Service is set to conduct interviews for shortlisted candidates who applied for recruitment into the service from March 18 to March 23.
The Nigeria Prison Service on Thursday said that it spends N818,550 daily to feed the 1,819 inmates across the six prisons in the state.
No fewer than 129 inmates of the Enugu Maximum Security Prison of the Nigeria Prison Service will sit for the National Examination Council November/December examination.
Dambazau gave the warning in a statement issued by Yakmut Alhassan, Secretary to the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board, on Tuesday in Abuja.
Their decision was announced after a joint meeting at the headquarters of the Imo State Police Command in Owerri on Monday
In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, Monday Chukwuemeka, on Monday, Agozie was caught with the illegal substance at about 11:00 a.m during prison visitation by relatives of inmates on Sunday.
The award ceremony will take place in Barcelona, Spain in October 2018.
The Controller General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed, disclosed this when he received the Public Education Award and Certificate of Excellence on Public Sector from Superior Achievement in Branding and Engagement in Abuja.
The newly promoted officers of the Bauchi State Command have been urged to consider their promotion as a call to duty and reciprocate the good gesture by working assiduously towards safe custody and reformation of inmates.
The year started with the carryover of the promotion of over 10,000 officers and men of the Nigerian Prisons Service which was announced towards the twilight of 2016. This is considered as the largest since the inception of the service. Though, I was not involved, but I was affected as most of my colleagues who were promoted wore smiles and became rejuvenated to do the job whole-heartedly. This gave the rest of us hope and made us to believe that better days are here again. Inspectors of Prisons who were stagnated for more than a decade were all promoted, while those that have additional qualifications were upgraded.
Ahmed, who received an Award of Icon of Crisis Management in Nigeria from the Centre of Crisis Communication, stated this at a workshop on Information Management for Command Officers and Public Relations Officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service holding in Kaduna
A female suspect, Fatimo Balogun, was nabbed in an attempt to smuggle a Nokia phone concealed in a cellophane bag and buried in a pot of soup into Abeokuta Old Prison.
Justice Nathan Musa of Yola High Court on Monday granted bail to Ngilari, currently in the prison for a five-year jail sentence, on health grounds, after he appealed against his conviction
ASP Stephen Nwanchor, the Public Relations Officer of the NPS in Benue State confirmed the development
The number, according to the Vice-Chancellor, is distributed across the 77 study centres scattered all over the country, touching all the states, local government areas and the six geopolitical zones
He retired in 2010 as Assistant Superintendent of Prison in the Nigeria Prison Service after serving for over 30 years
The state Governor, Ayo Fayose, gave this directive in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission had earlier in May, 2015 arraigned the Abdu, an inspector in the Dog Unit of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Kuje, Abuja, before the court over job racketeering
Shema said on Saturday in Owerri that such collaboration was required to tackle challenges such as prisons congestion and jail breaks, which are now militating against quality service by the NPS