{"id":64935,"date":"2025-04-27T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64935"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:32:49","slug":"fg-moves-to-light-up-prisons-with-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/27\/fg-moves-to-light-up-prisons-with-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Moves to Light Up Prisons with Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government is set to install solar power systems in select prisons to boost inmate welfare, strengthen security, and power essential services.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was unveiled during a meeting in Abuja where the Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Sylvester Nwakuche, appealed for support from the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).<\/p>\n<p>Nwakuche described prisons as self-contained communities needing reliable electricity for education, farming, and safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have inmates pursuing degrees, masters, and even PhDs. Adequate lighting is crucial for their safety and development,&#8221; Nwakuche said.<\/p>\n<p>REA Managing Director, Abba Aliyu, pledged to deliver solar energy solutions to correctional centres and train inmates in renewable energy technologies, equipping them with vital skills for life after prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Government is set to install solar power systems in select prisons to boost inmate welfare, strengthen security, and power essential services. The plan was unveiled during a meeting in Abuja where the Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Sylvester Nwakuche, appealed for support from the Rural Electrification Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64937,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64935\/revisions\/64937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}