Tag: Prison
Court sends businessman to prison for defiling daughters
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, ordered the remand of a 40-year-old businessman, Opeyemi Olanrewaju, in Kirikiri Correction Centre for...
Court sends Erisco tomato paste reviewer to prison over defamation
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has remanded Chioma Egodi in the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Suleja, Niger State, over the criminal defamation...
119 inmates escape as rainstorm destroys Niger prison
A rainstorm that wreaked havoc on prison facility has led to the escape of 119 inmates from the Suleja Custodial Centre in Niger State,...
23 inmates bag varsity degrees at Enugu prison
No fewer than 23 inmates of the Enugu Custodial Centre bagged first degree, master’s, and postgraduate diploma at the National Open University of Nigeria...
Court remands Binance executive Gambaryan in Kuje prison
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has remanded Binance Holdings Limited’s executive Tigran Gambaryan in Kuje Correctional Centre, pending the determination of his...
44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye: From prison to Senegal’s presidency
Senegal opposition presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was on Monday, March 25, 2024, elected as the next president of the West African country.
Faye, who...
Putic critic, Alexei Navalny, dies in prison
Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable opponent, Alexei Navalny, has been confirmed dead in a prison in Russia.
Navalny was said to have collapsed and...
Gunmen kill Police Inspector, kidnap prison official in Imo
Gunmen have killed a Police Inspector and abducted a correctional official in an attack on the Correctional Service Farm Settlement at Umualomoke in Okigwe...
Police arrest, send Kano politician to prison for incitement on radio
The officers of the Kano State Police Command have arrested a politician, Abdulmajid Danbilki, well known as Commander, for making comments likely to cause...
$6bn fraud: Ex-minister Agunloye released from Kuje prison
A former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, has been released from the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja.
It was gathered that Agunloye regained...
