3,650 Inmates Waiting For Execution In Nigeria Prisons

LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In commemoration of the World Day Against Death Penalty, the Advocates Sans Frontiers, ASF, France, otherwise known as Lawyers Without Borders, yesterday, expressed its concern over the swelling number of inmates awaiting execution in various prisons across the country. The organization, through its Country Director, Ms. Angela Uzoma-Iwuchukwu, disclosed that a total…

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3,413 Inmates Awaiting Death Across Nigeria Prisons

LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s correctional centres have 3,413 inmates on death row, according to Abubakar Umar, spokesperson of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS). Mr Umar told journalists on Friday in Abuja that the total number of inmates in centres across the country is 77,849 comprising 76,081 males and 1,768 females “as of Monday, December 18,…

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