Three prisoners have escaped from the Ijebu Ode Correctional Centre in Ijebu Ode local government area of Ogun State.
This medium gathered that the inmates scaled the fence and ran away in the wee hours of Saturday.
Mr Victor Oyeleke, the spokesman of the Nigeria Correctional Service, Ogun State Command, confirmed the jailbreak on Tuesday.
He said that the event occurred at 3am on Saturday morning.
He said, “Yes, it is confirmed, it happened in the early hours of Saturday morning around 3 am. A search party to bring the three of them back has been raised. We have their biometrics and we have contacts of their families.
“We are working together with other sister agencies and in good time they will be brought back”.