The newly decorated officers include 108 junior staff and 50 senior officers from across the four prisons centers in the state including Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia and the administrative headquarters in Awka.
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Ahmed disclosed this to newsmen after an inspection of facilities in Ikot Ekpene Prisons on Friday
Oditah also told the News Agency of Nigeria in Uyo that a three-man committee had been inaugurated to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the incident to forestall future occurrence.
The Controller General of the Service, Jaafaru Ahmed, made the disclosure at the quarterly meeting of the Penal Reform Media Network in Lagos.
The controller spoke to NAN on the sideline of the 2017 Ikoyi Prisons Education Award held in Lagos on Thursday
The male suspect, Matthew Olusi, was nabbed at the gate lodge of the prison with the substance concealed in his cloth and pant.
They were found guilty of trafficking (smuggling) prohibited items such as mobile phones, India hemp and other intoxicating substances into the prison yard for inmates.
Ladipo told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday that the NPS was ready to partner with stakeholders in the legal sector on the initiative.
A statement signed by Emeka Monday, the Public Relations Officer of the Prisons command in the state, and issued in Enugu on Sunday, said the convicts escaped from the prison around 11pm on Friday.
The OSGF made its position known at the public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Pension on a Bill to exclude personnel of paramilitary and anti-graft agencies from the contributory pension scheme
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that officers of other security agencies present at the exercise included the Nigeria Prisons and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as well as staff of corporate organisations, including NAN.
The Executive Secretary of he CCC, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retd), made the call at a special meeting of the Forum of Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies in Abuja
The letter, dated April 3, 2017 and signed by the Director/Secretary of the Board, Sunday Dan Ogu, approved the suspension of the officers pending the outcome of all necessary investigations into the matter
Peter Tenkwa, the Controller of the Adamawa State Command of the Nigeria Prisons Service, confirmed Ngilari’s release to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Yola
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the Yola High Court 1, presided over by Justice Nathan Musa, had on Monday granted Ngilari “bail pending trial” based on health ground
Meanwhile, I have also realised that the only person that could be sure of not going to be detained either in cell, house-arrest or prison must surely be the dead person in the grave
Chibueze, the Vampire, was the criminal spirited away by his gang members on January 27 in the premises of an Owerri High Court in Imo State
During the said raid, not less that 264 mobile telephone sets were reported to have been seized
The Controller of Prisons, Osun State Command, Segun Oluwasemire, gave this hint on Tuesday at a ceremony to receive a refurbished and stocked library for the school funded by the Alms Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Osogbo branch
Oputa, who disclosed this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, however, said the situation had been brought under control.