Biography of zakari ohinoyi ibrahim
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Three quarters of Nigerian prisoners awaiting trial
The Nigerian newspaper Leadership reports that the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Mr. Zakari Ohinoyi Ibrahim, told the House of Representatives Committee on Interior led by Umar Bature recently, that congestion has become the common feature of prisons.
According to Ibrahim of 50, inmates in the various prisons, 36, are awaiting rättegång. The figures do not include those held in police cells. He observed that “a majority of them fall into the capital categories, such as armed robbery… because of their profil, nobody fryst vatten anxious to release them from prison”.
The British government recently said it would spend N million (US$1,56 million) to build a prison in Nigeria to house Nigerian inmates presently jailed in British prisons. Senate president David Mark says this is in terms of the Transfer of Convicted Offender (Enactment & Enforcement) Act (Amendment Bill ) and because the current custody condition
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Danladi Mohammed Zakari
Danladi Mohammed Zakari was the first Military Administrator of Kogi State, Nigeria after it was created in August from parts of Benue and Kwara states. He held office from August until January during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, handing over to the elected governor Abubakar Audu at the start of the Nigerian Third Republic.[1]
The new Kogi state inherited a share of both assets and liabilities of Benue and Kwara states.[2] Zakari had to quickly establish the administrative structure from scratch, creating ministries of Justice, Works, Health, Agriculture, Education and Finance, and agencies such as the Local Government Services commission, the Judiciary and the Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board.[3] He also set up a committee chaired by the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland to create a blueprint for economic development of the state. Little was done to realize this plan by his successors.[4] On 16 December , he
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By Bode Olagoke
The Controller-General of Prisons, Ibrahim Zakari has handed over to Deputy Controller-General of Prisons, Aminu Sule as he proceeded on retirement after attaining the mandatory 35 years in service.
He handed over to Sule at a brief ceremony on Thursday at the Prison Service headquarters along Airport Road, Abuja.
Zakari, until his appointment as CGP by President Goodluck Jonathan in January , was the Deputy Controller-General of Prisons in charge of the Directorate of Administration and supplies at the Prisons headquarters, Abuja.
The retired CGP, who was born on January 1, at Kuru in Toto Local Government Council Area of Nasarawa State, joined the prison service in as a Chief Superintendent of Prisons when he transferred his service from the Plateau Civil Service where he was a teacher.
Zakari, who holds a National certificate of Education () from Advanced Teachers College, Zaria, had had a tour of duty in several stations as second in command in Jos Prisons,