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About NCoS

The Nigerian Correctional Service is an arm of the Criminal Justice System domiciled in the Ministry of Interior.The Nigerian Correctional Service is a federal phenomenon. I.e there are no State Correctional Service in Nigeria. Every Custodial Center is a Federal Facility. The operation of the Service is supervised by the Ministry of Interior and t ...

Nigerian Correctional Service Today

The abolition of Native Authority prisons in 1968 and the subsequent unification of the Prisons Service in Nigeria...
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Nigerian Correction Service Act, 2019

You can click on the link below to download a pdf copy of the Nigeiran Correctional Service Act, 2019
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Roll of Honor

From its inception to date, the Nigerian Correctional Service has had 20 heads.The first seven Directors of Prisons (as the office was then termed) had British nationality

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FROM THE CGC's DESK

Since the passage of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act, 2019, our name changed from “Prisons” to “Corrections.” ...
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