Controller of Correctional Centre, Kano Command, Suleiman Inuwa, has said no fewer than 100 inmates are on death row in the state.
In the spirit of Ramadan, Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has pardoned 33 inmates from various correctional centres across the state.
Those on death row, according to the controller, include those with serious medical challenges, elderly and other classes of inmates. Bebeji assured the inmates that the government would look into their conditions based on the attestation of good conduct and industry while in custody to be made by the correctional service.
She assured the controller that she would present their cases to the state governor for consideration.Information Officer of the Ministry of Justice, Alhassan Mamudo, stated, yesterday, in Damaturu: “The inmates were pardoned by Buni based on the advice of the Yobe State Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy led by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Saleh Samanja.”
About six months after President Bola Tinubu recalled all career and non-career ambassadors in diplomatic missions worldwide, their offices in embassies and consulates have remained vacant.Banks have 24 months to recapitalise their capital base to at least N500 billion international authorisation capitalisation to continue operations in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria has said.
Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, has lamented that even though his state is part of the Niger Delta region, and ought to benefit from the Niger Delta Ministry and Niger Delta Development Commission’s statutory mandate, Abia is rather a major beneficiary of abandoned NDDC projects.
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