The Federal Government (FG) has proposed a budget of N38,030,008,805 to feed inmates in the Nigerian custodial centres in 2025. Also, N7.2 billion was proposed for the upgrade of correctional facilities on the back of repeated jailbreaks in recent year. These funds aim to upgrade deteriorating infrastructure and create a more conducive environment for inmates and staff. Other allocations include …

A Mallorca fan who racially abused Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior and former Villarreal player Samuel Chukwueze was sentenced to a year in prison and issued a three-year stadium ban on Thursday. The supporter was “found guilty of two crimes against moral integrity, aggravated by the fact that he acted with racist motives”, Real Madrid said in a statement. The …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja pending the consideration of his bail application. Justice James Omotosho issued the order on Thursday after the court resumed Mamman’s arraignment on money laundering charge which was earlier stepped down by the judge. The former minister pleaded …

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Sunday, disclosed that 25 cases of severe gastroenteritis confirmed to be caused by cholera were reported at Kirikiri Medium Security Prison. The development was against the claim by the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on Wednesday, 26 June 2024, that the custodial centres nationwide were free of cholera. The NCoS spokesman, …

Former Netherlands international, Quincy Promes has been sentenced to six years in prison for smuggling more than 1,350kg of cocaine. The 32-year-old, who currently plays for Russian Premier League side Spartak Moscow, was charged last May over his alleged involvement in smuggling more than 1,350kg of cocaine with a value of £65 million. However, two batches containing 650 kilos and …

A Federal High Court on Monday ordered that the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, charged with alleged sexual harassment be remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. Ndifon, who is being prosecuted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before Justice James Omotosho, however, pleaded not guilty to the four-count …

The Lagos command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) confirmed on Saturday that the state government had pardoned and released 30 inmates. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos. NCoS’ spokesperson for Lagos Command, Mr. Rotomi Oladokun said that the inmates were pardoned by the state Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba. “The inmates released are those …

Oyo State Magistrate Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, the state capital, has remanded skit maker, Abdullahi Maruff Adisa (popularly known as Trinityguy) in prison for allegedly sexualising a minor in his viral skit video. Last week, Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent Olumuyiwa Adejobi had called for the skit maker’s arrest following a trending video of his dangerous …

Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former president, Fernando Collor de Mello to eight years and 10 months in prison for corruption on Wednesday, part of the fallout from the country’s sweeping Car Wash graft investigation. The high court had convicted Collor of taking 20 million reais ($4 million) in bribes as a senator from 2010 to 2014 in exchange for …

The driver of the Lagos State Government staff bus that recently collided with a train, Oluwaseun Osibanjo, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ikeja High Court. The collision, which occurred on 9th March at the PWD railway crossing in Ikeja, the state capital, left six persons dead and others injured and hospitalised across government hospitals in the state. The bus, …