Tag: prisoners

Heavily armed gunmen stormed a jail in Nigeria’s central Kogi state overnight, freeing scores of inmates, a prison authority spokesman said Monday. It was unclear who the gunmen were but ...

Godwin Stephen, also known as Steve Winners, a 27-year-old entertainer and event planner based in Rivers State who was arrested and remanded in prison for three years for using the ...

Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has ordered the unconditional release of political detainees from all Afghan prisons. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, said on Thursday ...

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has released 136 inmates from Kano Correctional Centre in the spirit of Eid-El-Kabir celebration. He also provided to them N5,000 each as transport fares back to ...