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The major mandate of the Nigeria Correctional Service is the safe custody of the legally interned and to ensure that inmates are reformed, rehabilitated and effectively reintegrated back into society but the Correctional Service, formerly known as the Nigerian Prison Service, is bedeviled with a plethora of problems, hampering its ability to reform inmates. Apart from prison congestion, there is also the problem of corruption or compromise among some officials.

Emmanuel Onwubiko, head of Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria. (Facebook/ Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko) The head of a prominent human rights charity in Nigeria has claimed that same-sex relations are, morally, an “inch higher than incest”. Emmanuel Onwubiko, the executive director of Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), gave a press conference condemning Amnesty International’s 2021 goals, which include making “same-sex relations legal in all countries”, and...

ADVERTISEMENT A Benin-based tailor in his mid-30s, Johnson Eze, on Monday told the Edo State judicial panel of inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, how the police arrested him over an allegation that he was gay, tortured and extorted him of N100,000. Mr Eze said he was detained for three days at the Iyekogba Police Station in Benin on the orders of the area commander, Johnson Acha, who he further alleged abused and coerced him to sign a statement prepared by the police. Two other per...

A Benin-based tailor, Johnson Eze, on Monday told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, how the police arrested him over an allegation that he was gay, tortured and extorted N100,000 from him. Also, he said he was unlawfully detained for three days at the Iyekogba Police Station in Benin on the orders of the Area Commander. He said that he was abused and coerced to sign a statement already prepared by the police. Similarly, two other victims, Hyacinth I...

Nigerians protesting against the brutality of SARS (Phill Magakoe/AFP/Getty) At the ongoing inquiry into the corrupt, brutal SARS police unit in Nigeria, a victim has described being molested, tortured and extorted after allegations that he was gay. Johnson Eze, a tailor from Benin, told the inquiry in Edo State that he was detained for three days until he was forcefully made to pay 100,000 Nigerian Naira (£200). During this time, he says he was beaten and abused repeatedly. “[The officers] ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin A Benin-based tailor in his mid-30s, Johnson Eze, on Monday told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses of how the police arrested him over an allegation that he was gay, tortured and forcefully extorted N100, 000 from him. Eze, who said he was detained at the Iyekogba Police Station in Benin on the orders of the Area Commander for three days, alleged that he was abused and coerced to sign a statement alre...