EFFICACY AND ADEQUACY OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET) RESOURCES FOR REHABILITATION OF INMATES IN CORRECTIONAL CENTRES IN NORTH-WEST NIGERIA.

this study assessed the efficacy and adequacy of technical and vocationaleducation and training (TVET) resources for rehabilitation of inmates incorrectional centres in north-west Nigeria. The study was guided by twospecific objectives with their corresponding research questions and nullhypotheses. In carrying out this investigation, evaluative survey researchdesign was used. The population of the study was eleven thousand, six hundredand seventy-six (11,676) respondents comprised 83 Instructors, 9,600 Inmatesand 1,993 Ex-convicts of the North-Western Correctional Centres. Based onthe population, the sample size was three hundred and seventy-five (375)respondents, which comprised 83 instructors (the whole instructors were usedbecause the number is manageable), 140 Inmates and 152 Ex-convicts wereselected from the seven (7) correctional centres of the seven North-Westernstates using purposive sampling technique. The data collected were analysedusing descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to answer theresearch question and analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the nullhypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that: technical andvocational education training programmes modules are efficient, theinstructors of the programmes are adequate and the facilities in correctionalcentres in North-West, Nigeria are less adequate. Based on the findings of thestudy, it was concluded that: if adequate facilities were not provide in thecorrectional Centre in North-West, Nigeria, the objectives of programme willnot be accomplishes Therefore, the study recommended among others, that theGovernment and all relevant stakeholders should provide adequate facilitiesand encourage all instructors of Technical and Vocational Education Trainingprogrammes in Correctional Centre in North-West, Nigeria to ensure contentscoverage as the training modules of the programme as scheduled