Nigeria has witnessed a disturbing pattern of jailbreaks that have resulted in thousands of inmates escaping from correctional facilities across the country. The most recent incident occurred on March ...

In a bid to alleviate overcrowding in Nigeria’s correctional facilities, four state governors have granted pardons to over ...

The House of Representatives has rescinded its decision on the bill to abolish the death penalty. The bill is sponsored by ...

A bill seeking to abolish the death penalty in Nigeria has passed its second reading in the House of Representatives.

Members of the House of Representatives have passed a bill seeking to abolish death penalty for the second reading. The bill ...

A bill seeking to abolish death penalty has passed the second reading at the house of representatives. The bill, sponsored by ...

The confirmation followed the submission of a report by the Senate Committee on Interior, chaired by Senator Adams Oshiomhole ...

The Senate on Tuesday ratified the appointment of Sylvester Nwakuche as the new Comptroller-General of the Nigeria ...

A Japanese man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and is recognised as the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has ...

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million ...

The suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has declared that he has no links with any militant group. Fubara, in ...

THERE is no doubt that killings and acts of killings have become the order of the day in Nigeria. Apart from death in the hands of terrorists, the lives of Nigerians are being cut short by ritualists, ...