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The Police at the Maroko Division, Lekki, Lagos have arrested a 27-year old unemployed, Owolabi Ogunwande for allegedly attempting to commit suicide at the Lekki phase 1 toll gate, Lekki, Lagos and the Maroko Police Division with a rope tied … Read more via PM NEWS Nigeria –...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court Kaduna on Wednesday sentenced a driver, Musa Habila, to one year in prison for stealing his employer’s SUV. Habila, 26, who resides in Rigasa area of Kaduna, had pleaded guilty to the charge and said that he sold the vehicle to one Nura Abdullahi … Read more via...

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The High Court in Kampala Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old girl to 12 years imprisonment for murdering her one-month-old baby. Justice Moses Kazibwe convicted Florence Gelaki on her own plea of guilty, after she accepted having drowned her baby Elvis Sande in a...

Punch reports that there was a mild drama at Ekwulobia prisons in Anambra State on Friday when an inmate, Tobias Mbaekwe, who was granted amnesty by Chief Judge of Anambra State, Justice Peter Umeadi, on health grounds, declined the pardon. Mbaekwe, from Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government...

The Controller of Prisons, Lagos State Command, Tunde Ladipo, says education in prison facilities is getting better by the day, with an inmate in the Maximum Prison undergoing a PhD programme. Ladipo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that things were looking up, especially with the...

The United States on Wednesday transferred two Yemeni men who had been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for nearly 14 years to Ghana , the Pentagon said. The transfer marked the start of what is expected to be a flurry of 17 departures in early 2016. The Pentagon said Khalid al-Dhuby had...

A woman was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody over allegations of assault decided to take her four-month-old baby along with her to the Kirikiri female prison. The baby, Akachi Kenneth, would spend time in prison with his mother, Mrs Chinonye Kenneth, pending the time she will be able to...

A 40-year-old lawyer, Christopher Uzoamaka, arraigned on for allegedly sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl at the premises of Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, is still being remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons. The prosecutor, Inspector Andohemba Koti, disclosed this on Friday when...