The Imo state government on Monday, said it would be visiting and donating palliatives to orphanage homes, juveniles in correctional centres and other vulnerable groups on May 26. Commissioner for Gender and Vulnerable Group in Imo state, Mrs. Nkechinyere Ugwu, disclosed this at a news conference. Ugwu said the visit would be part of the […]
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has granted freedom to 294 inmates of correctional centres in the state, a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar, said on Sunday. It said that Ganduje witnessed the release of the inmates from the correctional centre at Goron Dutse on Sunday, and quoted him as declaring […]
The Chief Judge of Niger state, Justice Aliyu Mayaki, has frowned at the figure of 2,006 awaiting trial inmates at the correctional centres in the state due to lack of synergy between the ministry of justice and police. He expressed his displeasure on Monday when he visited the Old Correctional Centre, Minna for his annual […]
To say that the decongestion of Nigerian Correctional facilities is intractable is to state the obvious. Since late 90s when the problem of overcrowding surfaced in the country prisons, efforts by various committees and successive ministers of Interior and Attorney Generals of the Federation toward decongesting the prisons are yet to yield the desire result. […]