By our Reporter 3,689 prisoners are waiting for execution in correctional centers having been sentenced to death by various courts across the country. The acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Correctional Service, Sylvester Nwakuche, revealed this at a meeting with the Senate Committee on Interior Affairs. He said that the reason for the increase was that […]
Photos of tightly packed prisoners in El Salvador have horrified human rights defenders, with Amnesty International’s chief media officer for the region calling the pictures “dehumanizing” on Twitter. “[The photos] bring to mind imagery from some of the darkest moments in human history,” Duncan Tucker tweeted. The president of the Central American country, Nayib Bukele, […]
The government of Ekiti state is set to release several low risk prisoners in the Ado Ekiti Correctional Center. This disclosure was made in Ado Ekiti today by the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda. The commissioner declared that “the Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi has directed the Ministry of Justice to immediately […]
Adamawa State Governor, Muhammadu Bindow, has ordered the release of 33 prisoners serving various jail terms in prisons across the state to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day. A statement signed by the State Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Ahmad Sajoh, said the beneficiaries were from five prisons in the state. “His Exacellency, the Executive Governor […]
The Controller-General, Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), Mr Ja’afaru Ahmed, has raised alarm over the increase in awaiting-trial inmates in the nation’s prisons saying that 48,527 of 72,384 prison inmates in 2017 which represents 66 percent of the population are awaiting trials. Ahmed disclosed the concern in a media briefing in Abuja after a facility tour […]
Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, has approved the pardon of 12 prisoners. The state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Yemi Olowolabi, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Akure on Monday. Olowolabi said the gesture was in exercise of the power conferred on the Governor by Paragraph (d) of sub […]
Three years after a Federal High Court held that it was the right of Nigerian prisoners to vote in all elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission, has hinted that they will be allowed to vote in 2019. The INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Abubakar, made this disclosure in Abuja on Tuesday. He explained […]
Two senior lawyers on Tuesday disagreed over the powers of State Chief Judges to order the release of prisoners from detention. While a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, insisted that the laws of the land empowers the CJ to release unlawfully detained criminals, Mr. Sebastine Hon, SAN, maintained that the process is […]