60 Suspected Insurgents Bomb Ekiti Prison, Free Associates

About 60 gunmen atttacked the Federal Prisons Ado Ekiti,  located at Afao Ekiti Road, Ekiti State at about 10.30pm on Sunday, kill at least one prison official and freed their wounded colleagues, who had earlie been remanded there.

However as at the time of this report the number of those freed could not be confirmed.
According to Vanguard

A local leader of the Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Mr Ade Adeniyi (Apase) was at the prison at the time of the attack. He was, however, said to have remained inside the prison even as other inmates fled. The prison is the only one in Ekiti State.

Many Feared Killed As Angry Prisoners Break Jail In Lagos

Some prisoners who could no longer bear the harsh condition at the Kirikiri medium prison attempted to break themselves out of the facility on Friday. A yet to be ascertained number of prisoners were believed to have died as soldiers and prison officials engaged the fleeing prisoners in Lagos.

Scores of other prisoners were also said to have sustained varying degrees of injuries from the incident that occurred at the Prison located in the Apapa area of Lagos around 3.30 pm on Friday.

    A senior official of the NPS said the incident occurred after the inmates protested some privileges denied by a senior official who had just been posted to the prison, one of which was the use of cell phones by the inmates.

 

BOKO HARAM: INMATE OVERPOWERED SSS OPERATIVE, UPROOTED TOILET SEAT

 




The incident which occurred at the headquarters of the State Security Service has left many Nigerians in shock as to how the bedrock of national security was left vulnerable to terrorists.

The shootout between security operatives and Boko Haram members which occurred yesterday morning is said to have claimed the lives of 21 militants while 2 SSS officers sustained injuries.

While there is no concrete account of how the attack began, most sources state that it was an attempted jailbreak.

According to statements made by the spokeswoman for the SSS, Marilyn Ogar: