The Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC) has asked President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in Nigeria’s correctional centres and courts, citing “systemic decay” and “human rights violations” across the justice sector. Speaking at the access to justice parley 2025 in Abuja on Thursday, Lucy Abagi, chief executive officer (CEO) of the […]
The Attorney – General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Malam Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said that awaiting trial inmates in the Nigerian Prisons represents 70 per cent of the prisons population in the country. Speaking while releasing some inmates at the Bernin-Kebbi prisons, Malami said that most of the released inmates were […]
The Nigeria Prisons Service in Niger says 51 inmates out of the 210 inmates that escaped from the Minna Medium Security Prison on June 3, had had been recaptured. The Controller of Prisons in the state, Mr Mustapha Iliyasu, made this known in an interview with journalists in Minna on Wednesday. Iliyasu said that the […]
A Lagos High Court, Igbosere was on Monday informed that officials of Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, are allegedly maltreating suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, otherwise known as Evans. This development was made known by Evans before he was arraigned on a fresh two- count charge of kidnapping. The kidnap suspect who broke down in tears […]
The Chairman and Members of the Delta State Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy have concluded its maiden visits to all prisons across the State with a discovery of 1154 convicted persons in jail for various offences. The figure includes 32 inmates on life imprisonment, 222 condemned convicts and 900 others serving various jail […]
Efforts by the Lagos state Judiciary to decongest the prisons on Thursday got a boost as the Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Opeyemi Oke, freed four inmates of the Badagry Prisons. Those released include: Sharafadeen Sheu, Israel Emmanuel, Samodu Rasak and Tunde Ojo. Although, the number of inmates that were expected to regain freedom was nine, […]
Awka, the capital of Anambra State was in chaos, on Thursday, when the youths of the town and community leaders organised what could be described as a mock burial for the Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Chief Law Chinwuba. The over 200 protesters, who marched to State Secretariat, were led by the chairman […]