The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, says the deployment of virtual court sitting technology in Correctional facilities will ensure speedy dispensation of Justice and decongest custodial centres in the country. Malami said this at the launch of the nationwide pilot
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that there was no record of any COVID-19 case in any of the 244 correctional facilities across the country. Aregbesola disclosed this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He said that its officers at the correctional centres followed the […]
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. […]