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Nigeria: Board Suspends Kirikiri Prison Boss, Eight Others Over $1m Scam
This Day, 28 November 2019
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board has approved the suspension of three officers and six other men of the Nigerian Correctional Service implicated… Read more »
Nigerian Prison Boss, Doctor Nabbed After Fraud
Authorities have arrested Emmanuel Oluwaniyi, the Comptroller of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Lagos and Hemesin Edwin, a medical doctor and Deputy Controller. The pair allegedly falsified medical reports that gave convicted Internet fraudster Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term, permission to be treated outside the prison. He then had access to a mobile phone and the Internet, to run a scam of over U.S.$1 million.
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Nigeria: Anti-Graft Agency Arrests Kirikiri Prison Boss, Doctor
Premium Times, 26 November 2019
The head of one of Nigeria's largest prisons and the medical doctor at the prison have been arrested. Read more »
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Nigeria: EFCC Arrests Kirikiri Prison Boss, Doctor Over $1m Scam
This Day, 27 November 2019
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it had arrested the Comptroller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Kirikiri, Lagos, Mr. Emmanuel… Read more »
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Hope Olusegun Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos, has been placed under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ... Read more »
