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Mr Isiguzo said that the manual was necessary to ensure adequate and proper care for female inmates.

There are over 52,446 inmates awaiting trial and 3,298 on death row in Nigeria.

The Nigerian government has declared that over 2000 inmates have spent 10 years and more in correctional centres across the country without trial. This was made known by an Assistant Controller-General, Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr Gimba Dumbulwa, during a high-level conference on decongestion and corrections administration, on Wednesday in Abuja. Dumbulwa stated that some of the inmates had been held without trial for more than ten years. He stated that the overcrowding of detention facilities remained a major issue in the country's inmate management.

A statement issued Friday in Benin by the Public Relations Officer of the command, DSC Aminu Suleman, said Emehinola’s assumption of duty followed a posting order by the National Headquarters of the service in Abuja.

Land racketeering and grabbing in Enugu State under the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi have now reached an alarming height with the same land allotted to different individuals and each having the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) and other titles. SaharaReporters reported in August 2022 how Ugwuanyi's appointees and close associates with some top government officials floated a private company to off take revoked landed properties of residents and investors, and resold the same.