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Nigerian Senate Increase Prisoner’s Feeding Cost By 122%
A little over 62,260 people that makeup Nigeria’s prison population would now earn up to N1000 for daily feeding allowance, according to a senate committee’s new decision. The Senate Committee on Interior recently agreed to increase the daily feeding cost of prisoners per day from N450 to N1,000, as proposed in the 2022 budget. The…
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Gunmen Attack Oyo State Prison, Free Dozens Of Inmates
Olanrewaju Anjorin, a spokesman of the Oyo correctional centre in Oyo state, has reported a jailbreak after gunmen attacked the facility on Friday night. The spokesman told The Associated Press news agency on Saturday that the centre could not ascertain the number of prisoners that escaped during the attack. “I can’t ascertain the number of…