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Reps urge FG to secure release of Nigerians held illegally in foreign prisons

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives, on Thursday, urged the Federal Government to intervene and secure the release of Nigerians being held illegally in...

Oghenekevwe Uchechukwu - September 24, 2021

I was tortured with hot pressing iron for 23 days for not giving SARS N500,000, man tells Ekiti panel.

AYOTOMIWA Elegbeleye, a 30-year-old man on Thursday narrated before the Ekiti State Judicial Panel of Inquiry how the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), brutally...

Niyi OYEDEJI - November 21, 2020

Overcrowding in prisons risks becoming a public health catastrophe – AI warns African govts

AMNESTY International, a global advocacy group, has urged authorities in sub-Saharan Africa to protect prisoners from the risk of COVID-19 by unclogging prisons, warning...

Seun DUROJAIYE - April 20, 2020

Human rights lawyer sentenced to prison for speaking to media in Egypt

ZYAD El-Elaimy, a human rights lawyer, former Member of Parliament and one of the leaders of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party was on Tuesday,...

Seun DUROJAIYE - March 11, 2020

VIDEO: I can get a person jailed and throw away the keys, labour minister Ngige brags

MINISTER of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, boasts that he has the power to get a person detained indefinitely in a videotape shared with...

'Kunle ADEBAJO - January 15, 2020

UNDERCOVER: Bribery, Bail For Sale… Lagos Police Station Where Innocent Civilians Are Jailed And Criminals Are Recycled (1)

Investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO spent two weeks in detention — five days in a Police cell and eight as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison...

Editorial - October 14, 2019

INVESTIGATION: The sad tale of Nigeria’s child prisoners

The Nigerian Prisons Service recently changed its name to the Nigerian Correctional Service; however, the name change has not taken away the reality of...

Editorial - September 14, 2019

How Nigerian lawyer distorted six-year-old story of Olaide, innocent man jailed for 24 years, to deceive public

A NIGERIAN lawyer, Kingsley Ughe, is behind the viral distribution of the story about Olatunji Olaide, an innocent man who spent 24 years in wrongful...

'Kunle ADEBAJO - April 15, 2019

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