About 465 inmates have enrolled into various degree programmes, Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola, said on Tuesday.
He said the courses include criminology, security studies, political science, among others.
Aregbesola said this in Abuja while inaugurating 53 operational vehicles purchased for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).
He said 23 of the inmates are currently undergoing post-graduate programmes comprising one PhD; 16 Master’s degree; and six Post Graduate Diploma Programmes.
“In addition, 1,404 wrote SSCE and 634 passed with five credits, including English and Mathematics, while 4,757 enrolled for Adult Education programme and 1,162 graduated,” the minister said.
He said through the Federal Government Amnesty Programme, over 4,000 inmates have been freed nationwide so far.
The Controller General of NCoS, Ja’afaru Ahmed, said the service has so far purchased 504 operational vehicles in which 219 were purchased in 2016, 49 in 2017, 129 in 2018, 54 in 2019 and 53 in 2020, while 53 were inaugurated on Tuesday.
