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Inibehe Effiong released after spending 30 days in prison

Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has been released from Uyo prison after spending 30 days for alleged contempt of court.…

2 years ago

For Standing Up for Friend Oppressed by Police, Electrician Spends 5 Months in Prison

Headfort Foundation, a Nigerian prison reform initiative, has narrated how Elijah Owolabi, a Lagos-based electrician, and Adekola Gafar, a transport…

2 years ago

For Failing to Give SARS N100,000 Bribe, Lagos Bus Driver Spends 4 Years in Prison

Headfort Foundation, a prison reform initiative, has narrated how Femi Ariyo, a Lagos-based commercial bus driver, spent four years in…

2 years ago

Man ‘Wrongly Accused’ of Robbery Regain Freedom After 4 Years in Prison

Headfort Foundation, a prison reform initiative, has detailed how it facilitated the release of Wasiu Are, a 40-year-old man from…

2 years ago

Osinachi’s husband docked, remanded in prison custody

Mr. Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of late popular gospel singer, Osinachi, was arraigned before a High Court of the Federal…

2 years ago

Pardon all thieves in Prison, Falana knocks Buhari over Dariye, Nyame

Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has faulted the state pardon granted to former Governors of Plateau…

3 years ago

Gunmen kill 2 prison officers in Imo

Gunmen, yesterday,  killed two officers of the Nigeria Prisons in Imo State. It was gathered that the gunmen, who laid…

3 years ago

SuperTV CEO: Chidinma Ojukwu, other prison inmates participate in beauty pageant

Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the murder of Super TV CEO, Michael Ataga, and other inmates participated in a…

3 years ago

Ekiti teenagers land in prison over alleged attempt to kill sex worker

An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ado Ekiti, has remanded two teenagers, Oluwatimilehin Afolabi (19) and Kehinde Mustapha (19), in…

3 years ago

Sunday Igboho to spend 6 more months in Benin prison

Chief Yomi Alliyu, SAN, counsel to Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, on Monday, disclosed that…

3 years ago