The United Nations has urged the Nigerian government to abolish the death penalty.
Currently, Nigeria’s correctional centres have 3,413 inmates on death row, Abubakar Umar, spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Services, said last December.
Member States of the global body called for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty pending its abolition from Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
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