
Nigerian Prisons Service







The Nigeria police force has denied a report stating that two of its officers were arrested over their possible complicity in the attack on the Kuje prison.

Following the attack on Kuje prison by terrorists on Tuesday night, a list of some of the popular inmates at the Medium Security Custodial Centre has emerged.

Embattled DCP Abba Kyari who is one of the inmates in Kuje prison, Abuja, has reacted to the terrorist attack on the facility, according to a new media report.

The identities of some of the terrorists who escaped from Kuje Prison during an invasion by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been unveiled

Tukur Manu, an aide to Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, said he had prior knowledge of the attack on Kuje prison and shared his intelligence with security forces.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday expressed disappointment with the intelligence collapse in the Kuje prison, where terrorists attacked, freeing inmates.

Senate president Ahmad Lawan has condemned the Tuesday, July 5, attack on the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre by insurgents suspected to be ISWAP members.

Following Tuesday night’s bomb attack on the Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has visited the facility on Wednesday

Dare-devil gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group on Tuesday, laid siege to the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje Abuja.
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