{"id":66193,"date":"2025-05-21T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66193"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:34:00","slug":"rain-triggers-prison-break-in-osun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/rain-triggers-prison-break-in-osun\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Triggers Prison Break in Osun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Panic gripped Ilesa in Osun State on Tuesday after seven inmates escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre following a heavy downpour that brought down part of the prison\u2019s perimeter wall.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Correctional Service confirmed the early morning jailbreak, describing it as a result of \u201cforce majeure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Umar Abubakar said the breach occurred around 2:00 a.m., prompting an immediate manhunt for the escapees.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Controller-General of Corrections, Sylvester Nwakuche, has launched an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies and local community leaders are now working together to track and return the fleeing inmates to custody.<\/p>\n<p>The service has urged the public to volunteer useful information and provided emergency hotlines: 07087086005, 09060004598, and 08075050006.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has reignited concerns about Nigeria\u2019s aging correctional infrastructure, which has suffered repeated failures in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Panic gripped Ilesa in Osun State on Tuesday after seven inmates escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre following a heavy downpour that brought down part of the prison\u2019s perimeter wall. The Nigerian Correctional Service confirmed the early morning jailbreak, describing it as a result of \u201cforce majeure.\u201d Spokesman Umar Abubakar said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":66194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66193","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66195,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66193\/revisions\/66195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}