The Controller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Tunde Ladipo, says 24 inmates of Ikoyi Prisons will participate in the forthcoming 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
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The Comptroller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Tunde Ladipo, says there are no cases of ballot box snatching by political thugs in all the places his team visited during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that five inmates out of 25 shortlisted were released from Medium Security Prisons.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Friday expressed concern about the congestion of prisons, with over 70 per cent of inmates in the state awaiting trial.
The Lagos Prisons Command says education behind bars is getting more interesting with two of its inmates already pursuing their PhDs at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison.
The Controller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Tunde Ladipo disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
The command’s spokesman, Rotimi Oladokun, said in a statement that the incident happened after the case was adjourned and the escort team was leading the suspect to the holding cell in the court premises.
The controller spoke to NAN on the sideline of the 2017 Ikoyi Prisons Education Award held in Lagos on Thursday
The controller appealed to stakeholders to come together and fashion out more ways to reduce congestion in the country’s prisons.
Tunde Ladipo, the Controller of Prison in Lagos State, said the inmates were arrested for various offences ranging from street trading, wondering and some as miscreants on different streets in Lagos State.
The Controller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Tunde Ladipo, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.