Prison

A Police Inspector, Effiong Bassey has been remanded in a correctional facility for shooting dead a retired police officer’s wife and injuring two others. Chief Magistrate Mercy Ene, who presided over a Chief Magistrate Court…

Twelve inmates have escaped from the Kotonkarfe Kogi State prison in an early Monday morning jailbreak, according to the state's Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Femi Fanwo. In a statement, the…

46-year old Sabelo Buthelezi, a South African man, has bagged life in jail after he was convicted for the murder of his wife, Buthelezi Ngcobo whom he killed in February 2020. Buthelezi was sentenced by the Nkandla Regional…

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of a housewife, Olajumoke Olalere, 33, at Agodi Correctional facility, Ibadan, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs…

A 24-year-old man, Nurudeen Hammed who allegedly killed his grandfather and uncle has been remanded in a correctional facility. Hammed of no known address was arraigned in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan on…

No fewer than 1,700 UK prisoners were expected to be released on Tuesday as hundreds leave the prisons across England and Wales early to cut overcrowding. The figure did not include the 1,000 inmates normally freed each week.…

A traditional ruler in Osun State, Taofeeq Osunmakinde and four others have been remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre over alleged illegal gold mining. A Federal High Court presided over by Justice Emeka…

A tenant, Kareem Mojeed, has been remanded in Agodi Correctional facility, Ibadan, Oyo State,by an Iyaganku Family Court, for allegedly defiling his landlord’s seven-year-old daughter. Mojeed was sent to…

A man in Denmark has been sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention after stabbing a heavily pregnant woman to death in 2016. The district court in…