September 3, 2019 Nigeria: group lauds president for signing prison reform bill into law News Africa Nigeria Says it will reform Nigerian Prisons for better.
May 4, 2019 Nigeria: prison inmates seek better library facility News Africa Nigeria Inmates at the Makurdi Medium Prison, have appealed to the state and federal authorities to equip the prison library with relevant books and journals to enable them to develop themselves educationally.
April 29, 2019 Nigeria: children and women raped and abused in prison News Africa Women Nigeria Harrowing investigation details instances of rape and abuse against children unlawfully detained in a maximum-security prison.
April 23, 2019 Nigeria: stringent bail conditions responsible for prison congestion News Africa Material conditions Nigeria Some lawyers in Lagos on Tuesday attributed prison congestion in the country to the inability of defendants to perfect stringent bail conditions.
August 14, 2017 Nigeria: Lagos CJ frees 62 juvenile offenders, 67 inmates with disabilities from prison News Africa Nigeria No fewer than 62 juvenile offenders, 67 inmates with disabilities held at Kirikiri Female prisons and Kirikiri Medium Prisons, Lagos, were on Monday released on the orders of the State Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade.
June 26, 2017 NIgeria: 70% of prison inmates are awaiting trial News Africa Nigeria Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, confirmed, yesterday, that more than 70 per cent of Nigerian prison inmates were on the awaiting trial list.
June 25, 2017 Nigeria: 70% of prison inmates are awaiting trial News Africa Nigeria The Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Sunday said that more than 70 per cent of inmates in Nigerian prisons were awaiting trial.
June 25, 2017 Nigeria: Eid-el-Fitr: Ganduje grants amnesty to 500 prisoners News Africa Nigeria 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 afte…
June 16, 2017 Nigeria: weeping prisoner cries self to freedom News Africa Nigeria 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, eli…
May 18, 2017 Reps decry death of 900 inmates across Nigerian prisons News Africa Health Nigeria The House of Representatives on Thursday expressed grave displeasure over the circumstances surrounding the death of 900 inmates across Nigerian prisons, due to inadequate medical personnel and facility.
April 4, 2017 Nigeria: 32 died in Lagos prison in 2016 News Africa Nigeria 6,047 inmates await trial in 2,500-capacity facility
March 12, 2017 Nigeria prisons have 68,259 inmates News Africa Nigeria The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has disclosed that over 68,000 inmates are being held in prison facilities through the country as at March 2017.
January 31, 2017 Nigeria: 47,229 awaiting trial in our prisons, says Osinbajo News Africa Nigeria The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, monday lamented the delay in the country’s justice administration, which he said was the reason 47,229 detainees “are still awaiting trial in the prisons.”
January 3, 2017 Nigeria : Raising the bar in prisons administration, security and welfare News Africa Nigeria 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.
December 29, 2016 Nigeria death row inmates secretly executed News Africa Death penalty Nigeria Three convicted criminals on death row for about two decades have been secretly executed in the first hangings in Nigeria since 2013, human rights lawyers and a fellow inmate said Thursday.
November 22, 2016 Nigeria : l’Etat punit et l’Eglise sauve News Africa Nigeria Sorry, this article is not available in English. You can consult the French version.