Nigeria
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Nigeria: 259 personnes affamées libérées d'une prison islamiste (vidéo)
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Nigeria: miles de niños ilegalmente detenidos, acusados de yihadistas
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Nigeria: Lagos CJ frees 62 juvenile offenders, 67 inmates with disabilities from prison
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.Nigeria: Eid-el-Fitr: Ganduje grants amnesty to 500 prisoners
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…Nigeria: weeping prisoner cries self to freedom
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…
Nigeria : Raising the bar in prisons administration, security and welfare
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.