Spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCS), Abubakar Umar, has revealed that there are 3,413 inmates on death row across the prisons nationwide.
Umar who disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday to give an update on the activities of the service in 2023, put the total number of death row inmates across prisons in Nigeria at 3,413, out of a total number of 77,849 inmates, comprising 76,081 males and 1,768 females as of Monday, December 18, 2023.
He also stated that the total number of awaiting trial inmates was 53,836 comprising 52,512 males and 1,324 females.
