The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has said there are currently 2, 745 inmates on death row, urging state governors to either approve their execution or commute them to life imprisonment to allow the service effectively engage them in skills acquisition and other rehabilitative efforts.
This was as the Service announced that no fewer than 22 inmates who have been successfully deradicalised by its personnel have sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination, a development described by the service as part of its rehabilitation efforts.
Service Public Relations Officer, Controller Francis Enobore disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja when he led journalists on a guided tour of the Service’s Farm Centre in Dukpa, a suburb of Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT. Read more