Decongest Police cells, correctional centers now, Group tells FG over COVID-19 threat

A coalition of Civil Societies in Nigeria has called for immediate decongestion of Police cells and correctional centres across the country as the threat of coronavirus intensifies. The coalition comprising over 50 civil-society groups made the call in a press release issued to newsmen in Awka, in the wake of a recent riot by prisoners […]

Correctional Or Torture Centres?

Last week, both conventional and social media were awash with the news of raiding or bursting up of some correctional centres across the North. It started in Daura, Katsina state where the rehabilitation centre was cracked down and dehumanised inmates freed. Like harmattan fire, it spread to Kaduna state in which the executive governor of […]

Aregbesola and the Correctional Centres

Oddities they say make the news. This time-honoured saying explains the recent reaction elicited when Rauf Aregbesola, upon assumption of office as the new Minister of Interior Affairs, declared that; he does not really know much about the operation or policies of the ministry apart from stories about the ministry on the pages of the newspapers; […]