{"id":63302,"date":"2025-03-25T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63302"},"modified":"2025-03-25T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:27:45","slug":"senate-confirms-nwakuche-as-new-correctional-service-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/25\/senate-confirms-nwakuche-as-new-correctional-service-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Nwakuche as New Correctional Service Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has confirmed Sylvester Nwakuche as the new Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, following his appointment by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation, which took place during Tuesday\u2019s plenary session, was endorsed by lawmakers after a report from the Senate Committee on Interior, led by Senator Adams Oshiomhole.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio stressed the weight of Nwakuche\u2019s new role, stating that much is expected from him in securing the country\u2019s correctional facilities.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed confidence that Nwakuche\u2019s leadership would help curb the rising cases of jailbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>This confirmation comes in the wake of a recent jailbreak at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Koton Karfe, Kogi State, where 12 inmates escaped, leading to the tragic death of a correctional officer.<\/p>\n<p>With his appointment now sealed, Nwakuche faces the urgent task of strengthening security measures and restoring public trust in Nigeria\u2019s correctional system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Nigerian Senate has confirmed Sylvester Nwakuche as the new Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service, following his appointment by President Bola Tinubu. The confirmation, which took place during Tuesday\u2019s plenary session, was endorsed by lawmakers after a report from the Senate Committee on Interior, led by Senator Adams Oshiomhole. Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63304,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63302\/revisions\/63304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}