
Nigerian Prisons Service







A former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, on Thursday, November 25, visited a correctional facility in Abuja.

Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, revealed recently that there are over 3000 inmates still at large following jailbreaks in Nigeria within last year.

The director-general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said that while corps members get N650 per day, Nigerian prisoners are assigned N1,000 per day.

The names and photographs of 122 inmates who escaped from the Abolongo Custodial Centre in Oyo state have been released by the Nigerian Correctional Service.

The Oyo state Police has said that it detonated explosives discovered in a Medium Security Custodial Centre in the state after the recent attack on the facility

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, on Sunday, October 24, said that Nigeria's correctional facilities are attacked to ridicule the current government

Gunmen late Friday night, October 22, attacked a correctional facility in Abolongo area, Oyo state with grenades and set an unknown number of prisons free.

No fewer than 99 inmates who recently escaped from the Kabba Correctional Centre in Kogi state during an attack have been recaptured by security operatives.

The ministry of Interior on Monday, September 13, said a manhunt has been launched, for the gunmen who attacked the Kabba Medium Security Custodial Centre.
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