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Concerned Nigerians Calls On UK To Release Ekweremadu, Wife

Concerned Nigerians Call On UK To Release Ekweremadu, Wife

October 28, 2022 4:06 am

A group of concerned Nigerians have appealed to the Government of the United Kingdom to release former deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Nwanneka on bail almost five months after they were arrested. 

 The group, in a letter submitted to the British High Commission, Abuja entitled ‘The Travail of Senator Ike Ekweremadu: Protest Against Continued Detention Without Trial,’ which was obtained by Africa Dialy News, New York described Ekweremadu as a law-abiding citizen, perfect gentleman, and philanthropist, who has used his resources to touch lives of the less privileged.

They said they were grieved in …

13 Inmates Killed As Fresh Crisis Erupts In Ecuador Prison

13 Inmates Killed As Fresh Crisis Erupts In Ecuador Prison

July 20, 2022 4:42 am

No fewer than thirteen inmates have been confirmed dead and two others injured following yet another bloody fight in a notorious Ecuadoran prison yesterday, law enforcement officials have revealed.

‘Unfortunately, central command reports 13 (inmates) dead and two injured,’ the South American country’s prison authority SNAI said on Twitter.

The incident took place at the same Bellavista prison in the town of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Quito, where 44 inmates were killed in a bloody brawl in May.

Prison officials, aided by the military and the police, were able to regain control of …

Nwaoboshi Sentenced To 7-Yrs In Prison For Money Laundering

Nwaoboshi Sentenced To 7-Yrs In Prison For Money Laundering

July 2, 2022 5:21 am

The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for money laundering.

Nwaoboshi was convicted on Friday by the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal.

The Court also issued a further order that his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Summing Electrical Ltd, be wound up in line with the provisions of Section 22 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2021.

The Appellate Court’s ruling followed the success of the appeal by challenging the judgment of Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court which …

How Inmates Make Millions, Build Houses From Prison

December 27, 2019 10:29 am

Inside Nigerian prisons, some inmates are breaking new grounds and making millions of naira by venturing into productive ventures.

The most outstanding are two inmates who took to agriculture and invested their earnings on education and transportation while still in the custodian centres set up by the authorities of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).

The two inmates have also become their families’ bread winners with one of them maintaining two of his children up to the university level.

Although the NCoS did not disclose the record-breaking inmates’ identities, NAN learnt that one of them is at the Kaduna State Custodial Camp …

Prophet Alfa Remanded In Prison Over Ondo Missing Child

December 23, 2019 2:57 pm

The founder of Sotitobire Miracle Centre, Prophet Babatunde Alfa has been remanded at Olokuta Correctional Centre.

Prophet Alfa who was dragged before an Akure Magistrate Court on Monday by the Department of State Security, DSS, was accused of allegedly being involved in the mysterious disappearance of a one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole from his church.

The embattled Prophet was ordered to be remanded in prison by Magistrate Charity Adeyanju alongside six workers of the church who were said to be manning the church’s children department when the incident occurred.

The 42-year-old Prophet was brought into the Oke-Eda court premises by operatives

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Maina, Son Sent To Prison

December 19, 2019 5:57 am

Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTM), and his son, Faisal, are to remain in Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, till January 2020.

Justice Okon Abang, who gave the order, on Wednesday, adjourned hearing on Abdulrasheed’s bail variation application till Jan. 13, 2020 while Faisal’s trial continuation was adjourned till Jan. 20, 2020, NAN reports.

Earlier on Wednesday, Justice Abang had said that though it would not be convenient for the court to take trial, bail variation arguments would be taken.

EFCC’s counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, however, said he was ready for trial continuation and that the next witness …

Ikoyi Prison Electrocution: 8 Officers Suspended

December 6, 2019 11:51 am

Eight officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) have been suspended over their alleged role in the electrocution of five inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Ikoyi, Lagos.

They have been directed to proceed on suspension to enable unfettered investigation into the sad incident.

A statement issued in Abuja today by Francis Enobore, Controller of Corrections, said the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), had approved the suspension.

The two paragraph statement reads: “The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) have approved the suspension of seven senior officers and one junior personnel of …

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Lagos Orders Release Of 11 Children From Prison Custody

December 6, 2019 7:24 am
Lagos State commissioner for justice and attorney-general, Moyosore Onigbanjo, SAN, has ordered the release of 11 children held in prison custody in the state.
Onigbanjo in a statement by the ministry’s spokesman Kayode Oyekanmi said the children’s imprisonment was contrary to the provision of Section 207 of the Lagos State Child Rights Law of 2015.

Oyekanmi disclosed that Onigbanjo got aware of the children’s ordeal after a “tip-off received from concerned members of the public on certain Correctional Centres in the state having minors in their custody.”

He said the

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Bill Cosby Speaks From Prison

November 26, 2019 6:19 am
Bill Cosby says he has no issue rotting in prison, even if that’s for the rest of his life because he’s never going to show a bit of remorse for his crime in a report by TMZ.
The 82-year-old comedian who was found guilty of aggravated indecent assault and sentenced to 3 to 10 years gave his first prison interview to Black Press USA, and said,

“I have 8 years and 9 months left. When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don’t care what group of

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No Nigerian In Namibian Prison, Says Envoy

November 13, 2019 7:05 am

The Namibian High Commissioner in Nigeria, Humphrey Geiseb, has stated that there is no Nigeria in a Namibian prison.

The High Commissioner described Nigerians living in Namibia as good ambassadors, doing well in various fields of human endeavour.

He stated this Tuesday when he visited the Chairwoman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, where he announced that diaspora voting will take place all around the world Wednesday as Namibians go to the polls to elect a new president and parliamentarians.

Geiseb stated that Namibians living in Nigeria will join other Namibians all over the world to participate in diaspora …

Authorities To investigate Soyombo’s Ikoyi Prison Stories

Authorities To investigate Soyombo’s Ikoyi Prison Stories

October 23, 2019 5:48 am

Nigerian Correctional Service said it has set up a “high powered panel” to investigate the allegations in an investigative report made by undercover journalist Fisayo Soyombo.

The first installment of the three-part investigation by Soyombo exposed how Nigerian policemen “pervert the course of justice in their quest for ill-gotten money”.

In the second part of the investigation published on Monday by The Cable exposed “how the courts short-change the law, and the prisons are themselves a cesspool of the exact reasons for which they hold inmates.”

Soyombo spent eight days as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — to track …

Ecuador Court Upholds Ex-Vice President’s Prison Sentence

Ecuador Court Upholds Ex-Vice President’s Prison Sentence

October 17, 2019 10:33 am

Ecuador on Wednesday reaffirmed the six-year prison sentence given to former vice president Jorge Glas for receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks as part of a corruption scandal, the prosecutor’s office said.

Glas, who was convicted of receiving $13.5 million in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, has been imprisoned in Latacunga, south of Quito, since 2017.

The National Supreme Court of Justice declared Glas’s appeal inadmissible and so “the sentence was ratified,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

He served as the vice president under leftist Rafael Correa between 2013 and 2017 and under current president Lenin Moreno …

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