Mozambique: Over 1,000 prisoners escape jail as election protests worsen No fewer than 1,500 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Mozambique, taking advantage of ongoing...
Three napped hiding drugs inside bread for prisoners The Kaduna police command has apprehended three individuals for allegedly attempting to smuggle hard drugs to a suspect in...
UN chief welcomes exchange of prisoners between Ukraine, Russia UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has welcomed the exchange of 230 Ukrainian and 248 Russian prisoners of war...
Just in: I can name companies employing foreign prisoners as expatriates – Oshiomhole Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, says some prisoners from foreign...
Many Nigerian prisoners tortured to confess – Australian High Commission The Charge D’ Affaires of Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Leann Johnston, lamented in Abuja, on...
Sierra Leone under curfew as prisoners on the loose Sierra Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew as armed men broke into a prison, setting...
U.S. advances deal with Iran to swap prisoners, free frozen oil funds The Biden administration has issued a waiver for banks to transfer $6 billion in...
At least seven people have been killed in a shoot-out in Mexico as officials searched for 30 inmates who staged a bloody prison break on Sunday....
Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, has written to the Nigerian Governors Forum to request a meeting in order to decongest jails around the country. This was...
Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of committing further war crimes following a deadly missile strike on a prison. Up to 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in a missile...
