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FG builds six correctional centres – NCoS
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) disclosed that the Federal Government is currently constructing six ultra-modern custodial centres with 3,000-capacity in each of...
Attack on Prison: Pres. Buhari Visits Kuje Correctional Facility
President Mohammadu Buhari has visited the Kuje Correctional Centre hours after the attack on the facility by some gunmen. The President, who...
Nigerian Prisons Service Now Nigerian Correctional Service
President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed a bill into law changing the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) to Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS). The bill...
FG to spend whopping N22.4bn to feed 75, 507 prison inmates
The Federal Government on Thursday disclosed that it has budgeted about N22.4 billion for the feeding of 75,607 inmates across all correctional...
$350,000 Covid-19 fraud: U.S. court jails Ogun Gov. Abiodun’s aide, Abidemi Rufai, 5 years
Abidemi Rufai, the suspended Special Assistant to the Governor of Ogun State, has been sentenced to five years in prison for fraud...
Before Femi Adesina tasted power
By Tunde Odesola Kings don’t die. They depart to ancestral underworld in vaults known to the Yoruba as aja ile. The mountainous...
Stolen N2.7bn public funds: Jailed ex-Govs Dariye, Nyame get presidential pardon
Persecondnews reports that both Dariye and Nyame are part of the 159 convicts
2021 in review: the good, the ugly, the tragedies
Like every other year in Nigeria, the year 2021 was not turmoil-free; it has its ups and downs. As Nigerians put...
Nigeria sliding into a state of anarchy fast, Catholic Archbishop Martins warns
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, says Nigeria is gradually drifting into a state of anarchy, urging the...
#EndSARS: Buhari offers “Olive Branch’’ to protesting youths, says threats to national security will not be tolerated
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday evening offered an “olive branch’’ to the protesting #EndSARS youths as the Nigerian...
COVID-19 : Low tests in states may hamper reopening of schools, NYSC camp, others — Governors
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) says low COVID-19 tests in some states will hamper reopening of schools, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)...
Peter Drucker And The Things That Changed By Reuben Abati
My favorite passage from the many essays by the 20th Century management theorist, prophet of customer-centricism, and dialectician, Peter F. Drucker, on...
Rainstorm damages Niger prison as 118 inmates escape
No fewer than 118 inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger State, have escaped, reports Persecondnews. Their escape was...
Alleged killer of SuperTV CEO, Chidinma Ojukwu, wins Miss Cell 2022
The prime defendant in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of SuperTV, Michael Usifo Ataga, Chidinma Ojukwu has been crowned...
Nigerian forests now havens for terrorists, armed robbers, other criminals – Kano Gov. Ganduje
Kano Governor Abdullahi Ganduje says most forests in the country are now havens for terrorists, armed robbers and bandits, unleashing terror...
Nigerian forests now havens for terrorists, armed robbers, other criminals – Kano Gov. Ganduje
As an immediate measure, Ganduje wants another military training base in the Kano forest bordering the three states — Kaduna,...
