[3] In March 2018, the United Kingdom announced it would spend $939,000 to build a new 112-bed wing, in order to facilitate the transfer of Nigerian prisoners from the UK.
Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison was built in the year 1955 with an initial capacity of 1056 inmates.
Officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service had suggested a 750 naira daily allowance, but the Senate Committee stated that this amount was "grossly inadequate".
[8] In a May 2022 Vanguard interview, a prisoner who asked not to be identified stated that the meals at Kirikiri were "poor and horrible".
[8] For example, per the unnamed prisoner, breakfast consists solely of poorly cooked beans every morning, seven days a week.