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[BREAKING] Attacks on Prisons: FG outraged, issues shoot-at-sight order On .Declares Prisons ‘Red Zones’ .Fleeing inmates rearrested for murder By Omeiza Ajayi The Federal Government has expressed great outrage at the recent wave of attacks on Custodial Centres of the Nigeria Correctional Service NCoS, ordering personnel of the Service’s armed squad to shoot at sight any internal and external aggressor. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola gave the order at an emergency meeting w...

Vanguard News NCoS requests training from Army to check jailbreak On Kindly Share This Story: The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has requested the assistance of the Nigerian Army to train its armed squad personnel on how to check invasion of custodial centres by armed hoodlums. Mr Francis Enobore, the Public Relations Officer officer, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday. He said that the request was contained in a letter which the Acting Controller-General of NCoS, Mr J...

Igbo group condemns Owerri attacks, calls for investigation On By Clifford Ndujihe A PAN-Igbo socio-cultural think tank group, Nzuko Umunna has decried the wreaking of mayhem on the Imo State Police Command Headquarters and Nigeria Custodial Centre both in Owerri, Imo State by gunmen and urged a thorough investigation of the attacks. With members spread across Nigeria and the Diaspora, the group ”strongly condemned the wanton destruction of public assets by the attackers and reported death o...

The NCoS Spokesman, Mr Francis Enobore, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Enobore noted that peace had gradually returned to the Owerri custodial centre in Imo, following the recent invasion of the facility by bandits. “ The 48 inmates recaptured as at 1550hrs today (Wednesday) increases the number of inmates presently in custody to 84. “This includes those that resisted the temptation to escape during the attack. “Among t...

Nigerian govt vows to apprehend gunmen who attacked Owerri prison, police hq Mr Aregbesola stated this when he inspected the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, Owerri Custodial Centre which was attacked by unknown gunmen. ADVERTISEMENT The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the federal government will leave no stone unturned in fishing out the criminals who attacked law enforcement agencies in Imo State last Monday, while also promising to further secure custodial facilities ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Igbo social-cultural organisation, Nzuko Umunna has called on the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to adopt a new approach in handling the attacks on Imo State Prison and Police Headquarters in Owerri. The group said that the new IGP must ignore the hasty conclusion made by the ex-IGP Mohammed Adamu, who had, without forensic investigations, accused members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its Eastern Security Network, ESN, of havin...

Owerri Jail Invasion: Operatives recapture 48 fleeing inmates On By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA Security operatives have recaptured 48 fleeing inmates of the Owerri Custodial Centre who had escaped from the facility on Monday when gunmen invaded the facility, forcefully releasing about 1,844 inmates. Spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service NCoS, CC Francis Enobore disclosed this in a statement Wednesday in Abuja. He said; “peace has gradually returned to Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State fo...

Nzuko Umunna condemns Owerri attacks, calls for investigation On By Clifford Ndujihe A PAN-Igbo socio-cultural think tank group, Nzuko Umunna has decried the wreaking of mayhem on the Imo State Police Command Headquarters and Nigeria Custodial Centre both in Owerri, Imo State by gunmen and urged a thorough investigation of the attacks. With members spread across Nigeria and the Diaspora, the group ”strongly condemned the wanton destruction of public assets by the attackers and reported death...

Share The Headquarters of Nigerian Correctional Service on Wednesday confirmed that peace has gradually returned to Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State following the recent invasion of the facility by gunmen suspected to members of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB). Spokesperson of the Service, Mr Francis Enobore, in a statement in Abuja, also disclosed that the Centre has recovered a total of 48 inmates who escaped in the wake of the invasion thus increasing the number of inma...

•Says incident act of terrorism •IG blames IPOB’s ESN for assault •Uzodimma calls for investigation Deji Elumoye, Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja and Amby Uneze in Owerri President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all security and intelligence agencies to ensure the arrest and prosecution of all those behind yesterday’s dawn attacks on both the Imo State Police Command Headquarters and the correctional facility in Owerri. Buhari, in a statement by his media aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, described t...