36,000 of 50,000 inmates awaiting trial –Prisons boss

  More than 50,000 suspects are  in Nigerian prisons, 36,000 of whom are awaiting trial, Mr. Zakari Ibrahim, the Controller-General, Nigerian Prisons Service, has said.   According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Ibrahim said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a workshop on the ‘Human Rights Integration Project’,  organised by Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare… ;[Read More…]

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36,000 of 50,000 inmates awaiting trial –Prisons boss