As of May 20, 2024, 68% of the 81,356 inmates in Nigerian prisons are awaiting trial. Around midnight, in the early hours of April 29, 2015, Rasheed Adetunji, a 27-year-old disc jockey, was playing at a birthday party at Eleko Beach in the Lekki area of Lagos State.He’d played many such parties at the beach for a few years, but that night was different. Around 1 am, his frantic-looking landlord made a surprising appearance at the party and led him outside where his pregnant wife and mother-in-law waited. Police officers were there too, and had seized his neighbours’ phones, assembled in a bowl…