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FG receives report on alleged corruption, torture in Nigerian correctional centres




Source: https://dailypost.ng/2026/06/04/fg-receives-report-on-alleged-corruption-torture-in-nigerian-correctional-centres/

One day in the nearest future, I will write and speak about my experience in Kirikiri Correctional Center - I spent 8 days for a crime I knew nothing about. That place is not a correctional center but a breeding ground and connection forum for criminals. This is ably enabled for the System in place, starting from the Nigerian Criminal Justice System

QuinQ:
Sure, Tinubu social engineering like this below. Do you see how he engineered it? Genius!

Clap for yourselves! Obi has won the presidency of Nairaland!

he has time to be gallivanting without mission about. Let the Governor of the State pay a visit to the school not to talk of the PBAT. This crowd is bound to come out anytime a public figure show up. All these hypes about organic love is already demsytified.

I do not completely agree with you on this.
Organisations are not ready to let people grow into roles. Tosin talking, let him come and tell us his work experience before founding Moniepoint.

The reality is that the challenges are enormous and not restricted to the candidates.
Please read my opinion on this here

https:///42dPqLs

Because they saw the camera

Kukutente23:
You don't need to resort to threats when you've been defeated by facts
Just shush

What you put up as facts are evidence of ignorance and sentimental disconnect from realities. Nobody is threatening you. I am just giving you my two pence. When they pick you up and sue your "ass", you will not come here and be shouting "infringement of your fundamental human rights".

Kukutente23:
Pass your lecture notes over to bloomberg
Keep defending looters of our commonwealth just because of a politician
The reasons for not charging him does not cover any of your conjecture. There was no doubt in the mind of the prosecutors about his guilt. He also knew his best bet to escape serious legal repercussions is settlement.
I'm sure bloomberg know what they were doing him when they applied the label of convict on him.
Rest

I hope that one day, you will not eat this shit you wrote here.

Kukutente23:
The plea bargain entered and fine paid is an admission of guilt and tantamount to a conviction
You can see that even bloomberg called him a convict and he's yet to sue them for that but you're claiming he'll sue me for defamation

The statement is shaky and potentially misleading. While a plea bargain that involves a guilty plea is typically an admission of guilt and results in a conviction, not all plea arrangements work that way—some involve “no contest” pleas, deferred prosecution agreements, or civil settlements, none of which necessarily amount to a conviction. So saying it is automatically “tantamount to a conviction” is an overgeneralization and can be factually wrong depending on the case. The argument that Bloomberg called him a convict doesn’t really help either, because major media organizations use carefully vetted legal language, and the fact that they haven’t been sued doesn’t make the statement universally safe or accurate. Defamation risk is personal—someone can choose not to sue a large media house for strategic or practical reasons but still pursue action against an individual. Bottom line: unless there is a clear, documented conviction, calling someone a “convict” is risky and potentially defamatory; it’s safer and more accurate to describe the situation in precise terms, such as saying the person entered a plea agreement or resolved the matter with authorities.

Kukutente23:
Go back and read and stop making conjecture
This is a criminal issue not some civil suit
He was indicted and the main ground for plea bargain was because he was not resident in the US
Again, can I understand why exactly you're defending a man that was obviously used by Abacha to laundering billions of dollars of Nigerian funds?

Was he prosecuted and convicted? Your claim was that he was convicted in the US. There are clearly distinctions betweenythe two

Kukutente23:
It's you who don't know Jack about how the law in the US works
In indictment means presence of strong evidence of a crime
Is you enter into plea bargain, it signals an acceptance of guilt and a readiness for restitution to avoid going to trial
Go and get properly enlightened instead of defending criminals
Buying and selling indeed

Plea Bargaining is not necessarily an admission of guilt. It could be the party under probe stand to lose more if the case goes to court. The indicted may consider several factors such as personal/business reputational Damage, loss of revenue/income, distractions to set objectives etc.

Kukutente23:
Yes but settling after indictment is an admission of guilt
It's a plea bargain to prevent going to a full trial
Get properly enlightened

Its clear you do not understand the way law works. There are many reason why a Business Man will want to avoid a court case but what do you know? Its not buying and selling.

Kukutente23:
When you settle an indictment out of court, you summarily accept your guilt. That's what it means. If you read, you'll see where it was clearly written that he was indicted in a probe but was not charged because he wasn't resident in the US then among other factors. Paying a fine is a conviction
Go and get yourself properly educated!!
You can see bloomberg called him a convict

Indicted in a probe is not the same as convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction.

Kukutente23:
Lol
See confusion
He was convicted in Switzerland but has never been convicted in any court
You see your life
Keep defending Chagoury OK
Maybe you should warn Bloomberg too too stop calling him a convict

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/lebanese-nigerian-billionaire-and-two-associates-resolve-federal-probe-alleged

Resolution and Convictions are two different things. Not every court case leads to conviction. Go back to School Chief!

Kukutente23:
First of all, Chagoury is a convict in the US. I'm not aware of Obi or Atiku being convicts anywhere in the world. Secondly, being a financier of a terrorist organisation as you are implying that Chagoury is, is not simply a business relationship. That's a crime just as money laundering which Chagoury was convicted for on behalf of Abacha is a crime and not simply a business relationship. But I don't expect you to know these things since you support the same APC that brought bandits into the country. I'm sure in your warped logic, the bandits were brought in as tourists

Be careful of what you put out. Chagouri has never been convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction both in US or in Nigeria. It is the CIA that blacklisted him because of his political affiliations. Get educated. Stop peddling false narratives to suit your biases. It is criminal defamation . He was convicted of money laundering in Switzerland. The conviction was later cleared after a settlement was reached. Use google.

Kukutente23:
You mean Dangote is a bagman for all former Presidents including the same Buhari that hates corrufshun?
So you guys are defending Chagoury now?

Nobody is defending Chagouri. It is obvious you people lacked the common sense to reason with your brain. Whatever the sentimentalization you may have, it does not change the way of the world. Your Principal moving with the same structure of corruption he so vilified in 2023 is also towing the same path of Chagouri. Chagouri allegedly funded Michel Aoun(former Lebanese president and a Christian) who was in a political alliance with Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization. It is more of Business Relationship.

Get Educated.

You people are fond of twisting history to suit yourselves. Chagouri is a business man like Dangote. Reasonable Businessmen are apolitical. They are not beclouded with emotions like the lots of you. They are "Any Government In Power". They understand that Its only about interests not personalities.

Went through the comments. I hope everyone venting here has Voters Cards and they will Coe out to vote in 2027.When APC defeats your party in 2027, dont scream Rigging o, especially if you did not have voters card or come out to vote.

Must they have kings every where they go? The same thing happened in Ghana

Why can the pastor not heal him? What happened to the miraculous powers he has been preaching and using to get more crowd to his business?

it is either she is a prude or she is pretending to you. She knows what the man wants but she does not want to hurt her sister or him. The man will eventually run her wella. Tell her the man is not interested in anything serious with her sister.

ibechris:
Still the most credible fellow.

Do u know what it means to be a former governor and yet no-one can say whether in the past or present that this good man stole money any where.

His records are watertight and indisputable unlike the drug lord of the aziza Republic who has brought reputaional damage to the nation.

Obi anytime,anyday.

We have been saying he stole money, but you people did not want to listen. Putting state money in your banks is not stealing?

people voting are not on the internet. they dont know anything about polling.

cyberbro:
I wouldn't have faulted the developers much, due to the fact that it's just an external membership registration website for the masses to have an ID, except for the fact that they allowed alphabetical characters in NIN registration shows that even the form as an HTML element wasn't properly defined.

That, to me, shows they didn't think the website through at all.

Integrity of the membership register is important. So they could validate the NIN against NIMC.

Simple NIN validation and face recognition algorithm is enough to eliminate this. Unfortunately, Most developers dont understand how to ensure data correctness.

Seun:
Hello Nairalanders,

I'm Seun, the founder of Nairaland. Talk to me about what Nairaland is like for you. What's good and what's not so good right now.

I've been more focused on the backend and working on new features. It seems as if the moderation and other issues have fallen behind.

So, talk to me. What should we focus on in order to encourage you to start being more active on Nairaland?

PS: I have people dropping me messages presuming that Nairaland is over. What's that about?

Work on the search box. We should be able to search for topics only.

We have all been inundated with relentless clamour for the introduction of absolute real-time transmission of electoral results since the beginning of the year. The demand is loud, emotionally charged, and often framed as a silver bullet for Nigeria’s electoral credibility.
As a professional with hands-on experience designing and scaling high-throughput, mission-critical systems, I feel compelled to inject some much-needed technical clarity into this conversation — because much of the clamour is rooted not in malice, but in misunderstanding.
Some telecommunications providers have confidently claimed they possess the capacity to support real-time transmission of electoral results. That claim, while not entirely false, is dangerously incomplete. It reflects a narrow view of system performance that equates network bandwidth with system reliability. In reality, application stability — especially at national scale — is never about bandwidth alone.
Bandwidth is necessary. It is not sufficient.
Real-time transmission of electoral results is a systems engineering problem, not a connectivity contest. It depends on a convergence of factors that must all work simultaneously under extreme conditions. These include, but are not limited to:
Infrastructure sizing: Elections generate massive, simultaneous traffic spikes within narrow time windows. Systems sized for average load will fail under peak electoral load.
System architecture and implementation: Poorly designed architectures collapse under burst traffic, partial failures, or delayed synchronization. Elections do not forgive architectural shortcuts.
Horizontal and vertical scalability: The ability of a system to dynamically scale across servers (horizontal) and increase processing capacity per node (vertical) is non-negotiable for national elections.
Fault tolerance and resilience: Systems must expect failure — network drops, device crashes, power loss — and recover gracefully without data loss or corruption.
Application design and usability: Polling officers are not DevOps engineers. Complex workflows, unclear error messages, or fragile offline behavior will cripple even the best infrastructure.

This is why the debate around electoral result transmission must be reframed. The challenge is not singular; it is multi-faceted. It spans technology, infrastructure, human behavior, institutional capacity, and legal authority. Any attempt to reduce it to “the network is available” is either naive or deliberately misleading.
Real-time transmission is not impossible. Countries where such systems function reliably did not arrive there by slogans or press releases. They invested heavily in system design, redundancy, stress testing, legal clarity, and operational discipline — often over decades. They treated elections as critical national infrastructure, not pilot projects.
Nigeria must do the same if it seeks similar outcomes.

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@Seun

RollinTNDA:
The day Peter Obi will become President

A Ramadan where Christian and Muslim unite
To kick out APC ..

A historic Easter and an unforgettable Ramadan it will be in Nigeria History..

He is already president on twitter.

WhizdomXX:
https://guardian.ng/politics/engineers-back-real-time-election-results-transmission-nationwide/

The Nigerian Society of Engineers’ endorsement of mandatory real-time electronic transmission of election results is ambitious, but it rests on overly optimistic assumptions that gloss over Nigeria’s political, institutional and infrastructural realities. While technology can improve elections, presenting it as a near-silver bullet risks replacing one set of problems with another, potentially more complex and less transparent.

First, the NSE underestimates the scale and unevenness of Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit. The claim that mobile broadband and satellite connectivity can adequately cover over 176,000 polling units ignores persistent gaps in network reliability, electricity supply and technical support. Elections are not conducted in controlled laboratory conditions; they take place in volatile, resource-constrained environments where even basic logistics often fail. A system that collapses in a fraction of polling units risks delegitimizing the entire process, especially in a country where elections are routinely contested in court.

Second, the engineers’ confidence in cybersecurity safeguards appears detached from Nigeria’s institutional capacity to enforce them. Encryption, authentication and digital audit trails are only as credible as the institutions managing them. INEC and related agencies have repeatedly faced accusations of poor transparency, weak internal controls and susceptibility to political pressure. Introducing complex digital systems without first resolving these governance issues could concentrate power in fewer hands, making manipulation harder to detect rather than easier to prevent.

Third, the article assumes that electronic transmission automatically reduces human interference. In reality, it merely shifts the point of interference. Manual processes may be vulnerable during transportation, but digital systems are vulnerable at the points of configuration, access control, software updates and server management. These risks are less visible to the public and to political parties, which could deepen mistrust rather than build confidence—especially when technical explanations are used to justify discrepancies.

The NSE’s argument also downplays the legal and political consequences of technical failures. In a highly polarized electoral environment, even minor glitches can become grounds for widespread rejection of results. Courts may struggle to adjudicate disputes rooted in software errors, server logs or connectivity failures, areas where judges, lawyers and parties often lack technical expertise. This could prolong electoral disputes, not shorten them, contrary to the Society’s claims.

Moreover, citing international examples without accounting for context is misleading. Countries that successfully use electronic result transmission typically have stronger institutions, higher digital literacy, more stable infrastructure and clearer legal frameworks. Transplanting such systems into Nigeria without comparable foundations risks policy imitation without capacity—a pattern that has repeatedly failed in other sectors.

Finally, the Senate’s concerns were not a rejection of progress but a caution against compulsion. A phased, optional or hybrid approach would allow Nigeria to test, audit and build trust in electronic transmission while retaining manual safeguards. Making real-time electronic upload mandatory nationwide, before resolving infrastructural, legal and institutional weaknesses, could turn technology into a new source of exclusion and controversy.

In sum, while electronic transmission has potential benefits, the NSE’s position prioritizes technological idealism over political and institutional realism. Electoral credibility in Nigeria will not be secured by software alone, but by building trust, accountability and resilience—areas where technology can assist, but should not be imposed prematurely as a cure-all.