Borstal Training Institution, Abeokuta, Ogun.

History of Borstal Training Institution, Abeokuta

Borstal Training Institution, Abeokuta.

This is a place where juvenile offenders are remanded and given both educational and vocational training to rehabilitate and reform them before reintegration into society.

Security/Safety of Borstal Training Institution, Abeokuta

This is a very safe location.

Best Features

One, of the three borstal institutions in Nigeria, and the only one in the South Western region, this is a known juvenile remand centre that has successfully trained and graduated thousands of young people. They offer education in a number of subjects including science and social science courses, with the students participating in the JSSCE, SSCE, JAMB and NECO examinations. Under the vocational programs the school has tailoring/dress making, brick-laying/masonry, construction, electrical installation, welding and fabrication, carpentry, photography/video coverage, plumbing/ pipe-fitting, painting/sign writing and air-conditioning/refrigeration.

Writer's Review

It designed to offer education, regular work and discipline, and separate youths from other convicts. As most public institutions are known to become, the institute has a dilapidated look, with peeled off painted walls, substandard and outdated education materials and equipment, and the general disorderliness of the place. Private individuals and NGOs do what they can to keep it still running as intended.