270 INMATES FREED IN MINNA JAIL BREAK

A gang of armed men on Saturday stormed Minna Medium Prison yard, broke into the cells and set 270 inmates free. The gang stormed the Prison yard at about 4:30pm over powered the Prison officials, broke into the record room, armoury room and carted away some weapon and bullet proof vests THE federal Government has banned the use of telephones in prisons and also to recover the phones in inmates’ possession. It said henceforth, no inmate or official would be allowed access to telephones. The Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, broke the news at the weekend in Abuja at a meeting with the senior officers of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS). His words: “I have visited some prisons. Nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to enter the prison with his phone, not even the minister of Interior.