The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Afam Osigwe, has disclosed that over 65 per cent of inmates in the 244 correctional centres across Nigeria are awaiting trial. Osigwe made ...

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in Sokoto State has called for the abolition of Nigeria’s current prison calendar system ...

The United States Department of Justice has announced that Edwin Okoronkwo, a Nigerian citizen convicted of defrauding ...

A notorious bandit kingpin, Kachallah Bammi Yarma, who was jailed in Niger Republic in 2015, has been released after serving ...

Five men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Nigeria's Kano state for the 2023 murder of a woman they accused of ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently arrested a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf for an alleged N4 billion fraud ...

Nigeria goment don increase di feeding money of prisoners by 50% daily. Pipo wey dey Correctional (Prison) facilities for Nigeria go now dey entitled to feeding rate N1,125 per day from N750 per day.

Jails are recruiting prison officers from Nigeria and other countries to plug shortages in a move that has seen some camping or sleeping in their cars to save on accommodation. The prison ...

A judge, on Wednesday, sentenced an emotional former Senator Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison for a years-long bribery and corruption scheme that saw him rewarded with gold bars and stacks of cash.

Mrs Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu is back in Nigeria. A competent source disclosed the development ...

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) – Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative ...