The Controller General, Nigerian Prisons Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed, says the service has not recorded jailbreaks in the country’s prisons in the last one year.
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The Nigerian Prisons Service has constituted a panel to investigate the authenticity of a trending video clip showing some prisons officers assaulting a civilian.
The Nigerian Prisons Service says no fewer than 157 prison inmates across the country have embraced formal education.
The Nigerian Prisons Service says human element, infrastructural gaps and aggression by inmates are some factors that account for jail breaks in prisons across the country.
Francis Enobore, the Public Relations Officer of the service, said in a statement issued in Abuja that said that the remains were buried amid tears on Friday.
Plateau Chief Judge, Justice Yakubu Dakwak, has ordered the release of 13 inmates serving their jail terms in the various prison formations in the state.
He made the call on Friday at a Retreat organised by the Senate Committee on Interior in Lagos.
The prison boss was arrested on June 26, 2018 in Enugu State, though he resides in Abuja, where he works at the headquarters of the Nigeria Prisons Service
The Executive Director of the group, Dr Uju Agomoh, made the call in a statement supported by the Nigerian Prisons Service as part of the Prison Reform Project at the House of Representatives Retreat on the Review of the Nigeria Prisons Act on Tuesday in Enugu.
Luka Ayedoo, the Public Relations Officer of the Plateau Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Jos.
Ahmed said this on Thursday at the 1st Democracy Lecture series at the Faculty of Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Abuja, Gwagwalada, organised by the Department of History and Diplomatic studies of the institution.
Audu made the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yola on Wednesday.
The Communication Manager of PRAWA in the FCT, Edward Okeke, disclosed this on Thursday at news conference in Abuja.
He said with the elevation, the yoke of stagnation of personnel in the service had been broken and urged the beneficiaries to live up to the expectation of their new status.
Aminu Suleman, the Public Relations Officer of the Edo Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service, made this known via a statement in Benin on Wednesday.
Decorating the officers in Jos, Noel Ailewon, the Controller in charge of the Command, said the beneficiaries were among the 12, 588 personnel that the Service recently promoted nationwide.
The Controller-General of the NPS, Ahmed Ja’afaru, declared open the four-day workshop for the officers on Monday in Abuja.
The farm was repositioned at the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s resolve to diversify the Nigerian economy, with emphasis on the agricultural and mining sectors.
The minister, represented by Alhaji Muyiwa Azeez, the Director, Agribusiness, Processing and Marketing in the ministry, said the workshop was aimed at building a world class economy through agriculture.
The Controller of Prisons in Lagos State, Tunde Ladipo, told newsmen in Lagos that most of the affected inmates were arrested for minor offences ranging from street trading to wandering.