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Senator Adams Oshiomhole has lamented the quality of feeding for inmates in Nigerian prisons saying dogs in the correctional centres are better fed.  Oshiomhole, who heads the Senate Committee on Interior, criticised the feeding practices at the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), emphasising the need for correctional facilities to focus on rehabilitation rather than subjecting inmates to dehumanising conditions. Oshiomhole questioned how the NCoS manages to feed inmates with such a small amount, especially when compared to the cost of feeding dogs in the same facilities. “You feed that presumed innocent president with N750 a day and N 250 per meal. And then the dog, you feed the dog with at least N800 a day,” he said during a budget defence session on Thursday. “One thing has come out is that an unconvicted Nigerian is being fed with N750 and you feed each of the dogs under your care with N800 per day. “So, a dog is better fed in the Nigerian prison than an innocent Nigerian in ...

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara , has stated that he would not surrender his mandate and the progress of the state to the acts of intimidation, blackmail and deliberate sabotage against him. Fubara also tasked Nigerians to have faith in the renewed hope agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the federal level, asserting that President Tinubu has shown determination to pull the nation out of the prevailing economic nightmare. The governor who spoke while declaring open the 115th and 116th combined Quarterly General Meeting of Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers in Port Harcourt, yesterday, hinted that his administration was being sabotaged. He emphasized that no level of sabotage deliberately staged in some quarters against his administration would force him to abandon the mandate given to him to serve, adding he would maintain the push for the equitable development of the state. Fubara, who noted that it was a trying time for the state, reaffirmed his unalloyed co...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured that the federal government has put in place measures to tackle youth unemployment as part of effort to stem brain drain through migration. The President made the appeal during the National Migration Dialogue (NMD), themed ‘Leveraging Youth Migration for National Development,’ held at the banquet hall of the presidential villa, yesterday in Abuja. Represented by the minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, he said government has put in places numerous intervention programme to cushion economic difficulties faced by Nigerians especially the youth. “Recent upsurge of youth migration to locations outside Nigeria is surely a matter of concern particularly given the fact that majority of the affected youth are skilled individuals on whom national resources have been expended. “Let me assure you all that my government’s social, economic policies and programmes as well as those in the states, are targeted at improving the ...