Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), said 300 inmates were undergoing various levels of educational programs at the Nasarawa state command of NCS. The Assistant Controller, Nasarawa state command of Nigerian Correctional Service, Nasarawa state command, Wukari Luka, disclosed this while speaking as a participant at the …
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Governor Umaru Bago of Niger State has pardoned 80 inmates in various correctional centres in the state. The governor also approved the immediate payment of their fines to enable the inmates to rejoin their families. A statement by Alhaji Abubakar Usman, Secretary to the State Government, in Minna on …
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The Federal Government, yesterday, revealed that Nigeria would spend N22.4 billion feeding inmates in prisons across the country. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore, who disclosed this in a statement, yesterday, at a two-day Conference on Decongestion and Corrections Management in Abuja, noted that the fund was budgeted …
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Sixty-five inmates from correctional centres will graduate from the forthcoming convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), its Vice Chancellor, Professor Olufemi Peters, has disclosed. He explained that the 65 inmates are among the 28,740 students that will graduate from the university. Speaking at its 12th pre-convocation briefing …
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