Feeding Allowance Of Nigerian Prisoners More Than That Of Graduates Serving Nation — NYSC DG cries out

The Director-general of the National Youth Service Corps has voiced out that the inmates feed better than Corp members. The DG, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this while appearing before the House Committee on Youth Development for budget defence on Wednesday, 3rd, November. He mentioned that corps members were served a meal worth N650 per day. This is coming after the Senate Committee on Interior had increased the daily feeding allowance of the Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS from its current N450 per day to a minimum of N1,000 per perspn. This increment was done earlier on the 27th of October.