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The 10th Senate on Tuesday expressed unhappiness about the frequent jailbreaks that have been happening across the country in recent years. This happened as the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, expressed regret that many jailbreaks have happened following a change of name from the Nigeria Prisons Service to Nigeria Correctional Service. Akpabio mentioned this while discussing a bill to amend the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act, highlighting the 'deception' in adopting the name, Nigeria Correctional Service.

A total of 25,679 inmates were sentenced to non-custodial services in the Federal Capital Territory in five years, the Nigerian Correctional Service revealed on Tuesday. The introduction of the non-custodial component into the operations of the NCoS was a breakthrough of the NCoS Act, 2019, which established the Nigerian non-custodial service under Part II, providing […]