The Inmates’ Training and Productivity (ITP) Directorate of the Nigerian Prisons service has the responsibility of training inmates specifically in Prison Farms and Industries for the purpose of not only imparting self-sustaining skills on them but also in the process inculcating in them the positive orientation of finding dignity in labour. To that extent, this […]
The Administration, and Supplies directorate of the Nigerian Prisons Service owns the responsibility of properly articulating and implementing policy on personnel matters such as appointment, promotion, staff distribution, posting, discipline and training. This is the Directorate that sees to the recruitment and documentation of new staff. It also coordinates promotions and plans the training programmes […]
The Nigerian Prisons Service Operations Directorate has the following responsibility: Ensuring that all prisons nation-wide are administered according to law and managed in conformity with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (The Mandela Rules); Ensuring the maintenance of acceptable standard of activities in all prisons according to their security categorization; […]
From the inception of the Nigerian Prisons Service to date, it has had 20 heads. The first seven Directors of Prisons (as the office was then termed) had British nationality. With effect from 1st October, 1992 the office of the head of the Nigerian Prisons Service was changed from Director of Prisons to Controller-General of […]
The Nigerian Prisons Service is a government agency of Nigeria which operates prisons. Functions OF The Nigerian Prisons Service are as follows: To take into lawful custody all those certified to be so kept by courts of competent jurisdiction; To produce suspects in courts as and when due; To dentify the causes of their anti-social […]
VISION Of The Nigerian Prisons The intention of the Nigerian Prisons Service is to establish a credible Prisons Service which through excellent penal practice seek lasting change in offender’s attitudes, values and behaviour and ensure successful reintegration into the society MISSION Of The Nigerian Prisons The mission of the Nigerian Prisons Service promote public protection by providing […]
At the apex of the Nigerian Prisons Service sits the Controller-General of the Nigerian Prisons Service. He is the Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the formulations and implementation of penal policies in Nigeria. He is responsible to the President through the Minister of Interior and the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services […]