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Nigeria Prison attackers no go live to regret am - Interior Minister Aregbesola 1 May 2021 Wia dis foto come from, Ileowo Kikiowo Nigeria minister of interior Rauf Aregbesola don declare say make prison commanders use every power to defend against internal and external attacks. Di minister on Friday 30 April follow meet wit di top ogas of di Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) for dia headquarters wia e say all custodial facilities alias prison for Nigeria don become red zone . Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) na im dey responsible for all prisons for di kontri. Di weapons wey you carry and di instrument you get na for lawful use to di maximum effect, in order to protect di facilities. Anyone or group of pipo wey decide to attack dem (prison) no suppose live to regret am Aregbesola bin hala. ....
Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021 07:56 AM MYT The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle, the national corrections authority said in a statement. AFP pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. ABUJA, April 6 More than 1,800 inmates have escaped after heavily armed men attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria using explosives, prison authorities said yesterday. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle, the national corrections authority said in a statement. “I can confirm that the Imo State command of the Nigerian Correctional Service was attacked by unknown gunmen in Owerri,” Imo state corrections service spokesman James Madugba told AFP, adding that the number of escaped inmates was yet to be confirmed. ....
THE STANDARD By Reuters | April 6th 2021 at 12:28:31 GMT +0300 Burnt vehicles are seen outside the Nigeria police force Imo state command headquaters after gunmen attacked and set properties ablaze in Imo State, Nigeria. [Reuters] More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison in the southeastern city of Owerri after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, the prisons authority said. Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack, but a spokesman for the group denied involvement. The secessionist movement in the southeast is one of several serious security challenges facing President Muhammadu Buhari, including a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast, a spate of school kidnappings in the northwest and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. ....