Borstal Training Institution, Abeokuta
Ways Of Travel
By car and motorbike
Reason To Recommend Place
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institutions are known to become, the institute has a dilapidated look, with peeled off painted walls, substandard and outdated education materials and equipment, and the general disorderliness of the place.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.
Reason For Loving Place
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.
