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At least three-quarters of Nigeria’s total prison population are inmates serving time without being sentenced, the Nigerian Correctional Service said this on Thursday.
The head of the agency, Ja’afaru Ahmed, 51,983 inmates are awaiting trial out of the prison’s total population of 73, 726 inmates. That…
Source — Today
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A thorough investigation is necessary to avoid a recurrence
Source — The Nation
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A financial analyst, Lukman Okunade, was remanded at the Ikoyi Prison Service (now known as Ikoyi Correctional Centre) for three days pending the time he would meet his bail conditions. He told TAJUDEEN ADEBANJO that those days remain the darkest part of his life.
Source — The Nation
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According to him, the facility had a capacity of 35 but accommodated 140 persons.
Source — Sahara Reporters
Read more Nigeria: 259 personnes affamées libérées d'une prison islamiste (vidéo)
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Detained kids accused of Boko Haram sympathies, are actually Boko Haram victims.
Source — Human RIghts Watch
Read moreNigeria: miles de niños ilegalmente detenidos, acusados de yihadistas
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Harrowing investigation details instances of rape and abuse against children unlawfully detained in a maximum-security prison.
Source — Amnesty International UK
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Some lawyers in Lagos on Tuesday attributed prison congestion in the country to the inability of defendants to perfect stringent bail conditions.
Source — Vanguardngr
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Kano State Government on Sunday granted pardon to 500 inmates of prisons in the state to mark the Eid-el-Fitr.
The state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, granted the pardon to the inmates at Central Prison, Kurmawa in the state capital, while addressing a cross-section of the convicts, shortly after…
Source — The News Guru
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Ikechukwu Emmanuel, an inmate of Keffi Medium Security Prisons in Keffi in Nasarawa State, cried himself to freedom on Friday through the help of Prisons Officers Wives Association (PROWA).
Mr. Emmanuel, not originally listed to benefit from the assistance of PROWA’s prison decongestion effort, elicited…
Source — Premium Times
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The Nigerian prisons legislation and practice are generally perceived to be “anti-prisoner”. They tend to completely take away all rights and self-respect of prisoners. This is unlike the general prison practice and legislation in other advanced nations.
Source — The Guardian
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