By Citizens Platform The Katsina state government on Friday released no fewer than 100 prisoners from the Daura prisons in the state yesterday. While speaking at...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged Nigerian government to withdraw the directive to the 36 states of the federation on execution of prisoners...
Four prisoners on death row were executed yesterday by officials of the Nigeria Prison Services in Edo State. One of those also to be executed is...
Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and...
Free them or put them on trial. Thus urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at Guantanamo, jailed and in limbo for...
Ninety six inmates of the Kirikiri Medium and Female Prisons in Lagos were today released by the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Ayotunde Phillips. Eighty-eight...
More than half of the men held at the Guantanamo detention camp have joined an escalating hunger strike to protest their open-ended detention, a camp spokesman...
… 127 escape The police on Sunday confirmed that 25 persons were killed during an attack on Ganye Town, the headquarters of Ganye Local Government Area...