Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Correctional Centres on Sapele Road and Oko,...
Hundreds of inmates at the Okere Correctional Centre – formerly called Okere Prisons – in Warri, Delta State were, on Monday, left completely drenched after a...
The Iranian government has temporarily released 54,000 people from prisons to avoid the spread of coronavirus after the country’s death toll exceeded Italy’s with 92 dead...
A female prison officer, Stephanie Smithwhite has admitted to cutting a hole in her uniform in order to have an affair with a convicted criminal named...
Nigerian authorities are reportedly planning to the arrest of undercover journalist, Fisayo Soyombo, over an investigative report profiling corruption in Nigeria’s prisons. WuzupNigeria reports that Soyombo’s...
A Nigerian man has recounted what he described as a scary incident in a prison that made him realise how dangerous his job was as a...
The Federal Government has directed the Nigeria Prisons Service and the Federal Fire Service to employ 7, 475 and 2,200 Nigerians respectively. In total the two...
The remains of the retired Deputy Controller-General of Prisons, Dr Adewale Oloyede, have been buried in Volts and Garden at Ikoyi, Lagos, a Nigerian Prisons Service...
On Monday, the Kuje prison where popular inmates like Henry Okah and Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are kept came under fire.