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Protest: Steer clear of correctional centres, FG warns

The Federal Government has warned protesters to stay away from its 256 custodial centres (prisons) across the country, declaring them as “red...

FG to relocate 29 correctional centres in Lagos, Enugu, Oyo, others- Interior Minister

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has announced that the Federal Government intends to relocate 29 correctional facilities currently situated in urban...

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...

Breaking: 281 inmates declared missing from Maiduguri Prison after flood

The Nigerian Correctional Service has announced that 281 inmates are missing from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Maiduguri, Borno State, following...

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...

$35.4m money laundering charge: Court denies Binance executive Gambaryan bail

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected Tigran Gambaryan’s fresh bail application, dealing a blow to the...