The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has registered over 10,000 inmates for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) exams over the past five years, according to The PUNCH. The NCoS spokesperson, Umar Abubakar, in an interview with The PUNCH on Monday, revealed that more than 2,000 inmates are enrolled annually for these exams …

Twenty-three inmates of the Enugu Custodial Centre bagged masters, first degree and Post Graduate Diploma from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) yesterday. Five of them bagged master’s degrees, 17 bagged first degrees and one got a Post-Graduate Diploma. The 23 are products of NOUN’s study centre at the custodial facility, who completed their various courses within four or …

In the spirit of the New Year, the governors of Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, and Gombe states, on Monday, granted amnesty to 96 inmates serving various jail terms in different custodial centres. Benue Governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, granted pardon to 12 inmates at the correctional centre in the state. Among those he granted amnesty was a former civil servant, Dennis …

  No fewer than 11 inmates of the Enugu Correctional Centre have been released under the federal government prison decongestion programme. The inmates were drawn from the Enugu, Nsukka as well as Oji River and Ibite-Olo custodial centres. The inmates were handed over to the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who was in Enugu yesterday, for their official release to …

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has urged the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, to spend the N500 million earmarked for the payment of fines of inmates across the country’s correctional centres on their welfare. Tunji-Ojo had earlier on Thursday lamented that over 4,000 inmates held in custodial centres across the country were unable to pay N500 million in fines. He …

The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has pledged support for the prison ministry of the Archbishop of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke. Soludo made the pledge during the birthday mass for the Archbishop, who marked his 70th birthday. The mass was celebrated at the Nigerian Correctional Service Medium Security Custodial Centre Onitsha, on Friday. The governor also laid the …

The management of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has dismissed as false and unfounded claims that its personnel were collecting loans from inmates of custodial centres. In an interview with newsmen on Monday in Abuja, NCoS Public Relations Officer, Assistant Comptroller of Corrections Abubakar Umar dismissed the claim, adding that NCoS personnel have more credible sources for obtaining loan facilities. Umar …