Nigerian Correctional Service

The Senate Committee on Interior has said that it would undertake an upward review of inmates’ feeding cost from N450 to N1,000 per day. The decision was taken, on Wednesday, after officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS)…

There was wide condemnation of the decision of operatives of the Nigerian Correctional Service, on Monday, to provide a special transportation from court for Chidinma Ojukwu, prime suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)…

The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Haliru Nababa as Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service. The confirmation of the nominee followed the consideration and adoption of the…

The Federal Government has approved new uniform for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to reflect its new name. NCoS Comptroller General (CG), Mr. Ja’afaru Ahmed said this at the inauguration of the administrative block of the…

Justice Yakubu Dakwak, the Chief Judge of Plateau, has released 22 inmates serving various jail terms in correctional centres in the state. Mrs. Martha Banda, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Plateau Command of the Nigerian…

The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has approved the suspension of three officers and six other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated in the alleged internet fraud suspected to have…

Enugu State Police Command says it has re-arrested Gideon Balogun, a prisoner that escaped from the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) in Enugu in 2017. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP. Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement…

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the prisons bill, 2018, into law effectively changing the Nigerian Prisons Service to the Nigerian Correctional Service. The bill was read a first time on May 26, 2016; a second time on October 26,…

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