Tag: prisoners

•File photo of northern youths arrested in Lagos KANO - A socio-cultural group, the Northern Youth Unity Forum, has revealed that over 5,000 northerners are currently held as prisoners in ...

A massive fire tore through an overcrowded prison in Burundi before dawn on Tuesday, killing dozens of inmates and seriously injuring many more, the country’s vice president said. Many prisoners ...

A total of 3,906 prisoners, who fled some of the nation’s custodial centres during various incidences of prison breaks, are still at large. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, ...

The National Youth Service Corps has lamented that inmates in the facilities of the Nigerian Correctional Service feed better than corps members. The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu ...