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The 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment tragedy occurred on Saturday March 15, 2014, when 6.5 million people [1] in all 37 states of Nigeria (including the FCT) stormed various recruitment centers in the country for the 4000 vacant positions in the Nigeria Immigration Service. At least 16 job seekers were confirmed dead, and several ...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service (NPS), is a government agency of Nigeria which operates prisons. The agency is headquartered in Abuja , [ 1 ] and it is under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior and the Civil Defence Immigration and Correctional Service. [ 2 ]
A prison break is an unlawful act under Nigerian law involving a prisoner escaping or forcing their way out of a prison. [1] [2] Prison breaks in Nigeria are also often the result of attacks on the Nigerian Correctional Service facilities by terrorist groups, including Boko Haram, or armed robbers, leading to the release of inmates. [3]
At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said. Service agents were ...
More than 100 prisoners have escaped from a medium security prison in Nigeria after heavy rainfall destroyed part of the facility, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) said in a press release ...
Oct. 16—Only a handful of spots for new offenders are left at the state's medium- and maximum-security juvenile facilities in the wake of site overcrowding problems and staffing shortages.
The Kogi prison break was an attack on Koto-Karffi Federal Medium Security Prisons in Kogi State, in north-central Nigeria by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram. [1] The attack occurred on 2 November 2014. [2] About 144 prisoners escaped from the prison; 1 inmate was shot and killed during the attack. [3]
Government review will look at using technology to place criminals in a ‘prison outside prison’