The Lagos State Police Command has rearrested Kabiru Oyedun, one of the inmates who broke out of jail from the Ilesa ...

More than 1,800 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after an attack by suspected militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. Gunmen stormed the prison in the ...

IT was with mixed feelings that Nigerians received the news of yet another prison break at the Koton Karfe ... breaches at correctional centres across Nigeria. “Other examples of riots ...

Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said. The raid ...

At least 600 inmates have escaped a maximum-security prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, authorities said, claiming that extremist rebel group Boko Haram were responsible for the mass jailbreak.

The Kuje maximum security prison had nearly 1,000 inmates including 64 suspects of the Boko Haram extremist group all of whom have escaped, said Maj. Gen. Bashir Salihi Magashi, Nigeria’s ...

Bauchi - Authorities say 283 inmates have returned to a prison in northern Nigeria after a prison break orchestrated by a radical Muslim sect. Prison official Mohammad Ahmad told reporters on ...

Nigeria has been struggling to secure prisons. There have been at least 14 prison attacks in three years with over 5,000 inmates escaping. But no prison break has raised as much concern as the ...

Nearly 900 inmates escaped in a prison break in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, officials said. They blamed the attack on Islamic extremist rebels. At least 443 of the 879 escapees are still ...