There was apprehension yesterday following the incident at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, in the wee hours, as 16 inmates escaped in a violent jailbreak that left five correctional officers injured, with two of them in critical condition. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has confirmed the incident in a statement, sparking a nationwide manhunt against the escapees, with Nigerians expressing concern over the security of prisons across the country.

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has fixed September 24, 25 and 26 for the federal government to conclude the prosecution over alleged unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering charges commenced 10 years ago against a former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki. The presiding judge, Justice Peter Lifu, gave the order this afternoon after he granted the federal government’s application for adjournment to enable it to bring additional witnesses and to allow the defendant to open his defense.

The Commissioner of Police for Special Intervention Squad, CP Abayomi Shogunle, has explained why the Nigerian police is still detaining a Sahara Reporter who is also an activist, Omoyele Sowore, in its custody. According to the police boss, Sowore’s arrest and detention were ordered after the activist allegedly refused to make a statement upon police interrogation when he was invited by the police for an interview.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has fingered real estate developers as being complicit in the widespread occurrence of money laundering in the country, accusing them of being key facilitators due to inadequate customer vetting. This was contained in the antigraft press release on its social media accounts yesterday by its chairman, Ola Olukoyede, while tasking real estate developers with the need to do background checks on real estate investors to ascertain the legitimacy of their sources of income.

Legal experts are beginning to express concern as death gallows have continued to pile up with criminal condemned prisoners awaiting execution across many state correctional facilities in the country. This is coming as no fewer than 37 condemned prisoners are awaiting execution after being convicted for capital punishment in Bauchi State. Out of which 36 males and one female.

Chairperson of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has lamented that it’s unfair to generalise crime being committed by a few Nigerians to the whole of the country. Abike, who was responding to questions on the ‘Nigeria must go’ protest going on in Ghana, called on Ghanaians to punish individual offenders found wanting instead of witch-hunting all Nigerians.