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By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA The Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS has launched a probe into Monday’s gun attack on the Owerri Custodial Centre which led to the forceful release of 1, 844 inmates. Spokesman of the NCoS, CC Francis Enobore in a statement explained that “the attackers who stormed the facility at about 0215hrs on Monday 5th April 2021, gained entrance into the yard by using explosives to blast the administrative block”. The attackers were said to have arrived at the centre in large numbers in several Hilux pick-up vans and Sienna Buses armed with sophisticated weapons and immed...

Advertisement The correctional centre and the police command headquarters in Owerri were attacked in the early hours of Monday. The police alleged that the invasion was carried out by the Eastern Security Network, an outfit of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to a statement issued on Monday, Francis Enobore, public relations officer (PRO) of the NCS, said six inmates have voluntarily returned to the facility, while 35 refused to escape from custody during the attack. Advertisement “The Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State has been attacked by unknown gunmen and f...

Imo Jailbreak: 6 Inmates Returned, 35 Refused To Escape –Prison Service Boss The attackers who stormed the facility at about 0215hrs on Monday 5th April 2021, gained entrance into the yard by using explosives to blast the administrative block. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 05, 2021 The Nigerian Correctional Service has said six inmates voluntarily returned while 35 others refused to escape from custody after the correctional facility was attacked on Monday in Owerri, Imo state. The acting Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS, John Mrabure, disclosed this in a s...

“Establishing libraries at this time is coming at the right time and is in the right direction to enable inmates that have not been well informed, especially since we are partnering with NOUN we have graduates already. “It may also interest you to even know that we have people or inmates that have graduated – there are some of them that are into the courses of today and we have one doing his PhD programme based on the fact that he met the existing facility. And with FOSDA coming again, it will help in no smaller measure to meet up with their challenges,” said Goni who represented the ...

Aregbesola inaugurates 105 rooms hotel for correctional service On Kindly Share This Story: The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has inaugurated a 105-room hotel, an investment of the Correctional Service Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society (COCOS) of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Abuja on Monday. The hotel is located at the NCoS Headquarters premises, Bill Clinton Drive, Airport Road, Abuja. Aregbesola at the inauguration said that the facility was a product of strategic thinking and efficiency on the part of the leadership of the correctional service. He said that...