PETTY offences’ criminalisation, leading to arbitrary arrests and detention, is widespread, a report by the Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) and Open Society Initiative of West Africa (OSIWA) has
Read ContinueAn NGO, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) has called for the decriminalization and declassification of petty offences in Kano state The PRAWA programme Coordinator in Kano, Hajiya Kaltume Mohammed made the
Read ContinueThe Federal Government spends a whopping N33,878,700 to feed 75,285 inmates in the various prison cells across the country. This was disclosed by the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian
Read ContinueThe Prisons Rehabilitation and Welfare Actions (PRAWA) has called for a review of the criminal laws in the country to stop the treatment of minor abc petty offences as crime.
Read ContinueUju Agomoh, executive director of the Prisons Rehabilitation and Welfare Actions (PRAWA), says prostitution, hawking and loitering should not be treated as criminal offences. She said this while speaking at
Read Continue– The Chief Judge of the FCT, Justice Ishaq Bello, has warned that arresting petty traders is a recipe for more crimes – Justice Bello gave the warning at a
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