Category: Education – Secondary
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Smith International Baptist Academy, Ogbomoso (SIBAO) is a secondary school, one of the several learning institutions located within the premises of Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso. It runs a coeducational programme and has boarding facilities for students who reside in the school.The school colours are green and yellow, which signify growth and strength respectively, and…
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Emmanuel Alayande; Clergyman and educationist, president of the Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, who due to his integrity became one of the most respected elders in the country. Alayande was born in 1910, in Ibadan, Oyo State and graduated from the University of London’s Institute of Education, England. He was vice-principal, Ibadan Grammar School, 1947-1948;…
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Mokuolu Adebayo; Nigerian professor of Chemistry and celebrated educationist. Adebayo Mokuolu was born in the famous Owu quarters of Abeokuta, Ogun state, into Olusomi family. The same family produced President Obasanjo. Childhood Mokuolu attended Bishop Oluwole Memorial School, Agege, Lagos, for his primary education. On completion, he applied as a carpentry apprentice at Cappa…
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Tai Solarin; Activist and educationist. Solarin is known for his social experiments, which he deployed as a school proprietor, his minimalism, his atheistic disposition and his participation in the clamour for democracy. For announcing the military must relinquish power within six months in the mid-80s, Solarin was detained for 17 months in Jos[i]. He once…
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Babatunde Fafunwa Aliu; Nigerian educationist, only Nigerian academic to have been involved in all the reform processes of the country’s education sector since independence. Fafunwa was an advocate of free education and of the mother-tongue policy which supports the notion that primary school pupils should be taught in their native languages for better assimilation. As…
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Efunjoke Coker; Educationist, first Nigerian principal of the Queen’s College, Lagos. Efunjoke occupied the unique place of being the only Queen’s College girl on record who participated in the life of the school in the capacities of a student, Principal, and Chairman of the Advisory Council. As a teenager, Efunjoke tutored pupils at St. Teresa’s…
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Smith International Baptist Academy, Ogbomoso (SIBAO) is a secondary school, one of the several learning institutions located within the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso. It runs a coeducational programme and has boarding facilities for students who reside in the school. The present student population is a little over 900. The school colours are green and…
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Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro is a secondary school founded as a result of post-independence deliberations by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the need to increase the new country’s manpower. The school had kickstarted with technical assistance from the Harvard University USAID and the Ford Foundation. Technical subjects such as Basic Electronics and Applied Electricity…
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Corona High School was established in 1955 by a group of expatriates in the Corona Women’s Society. In the years after Nigeria’s independence, the school had expanded and six sister schools have been opened. The school operates the British model of education. There are Corona High schools in Ikoyi, Gbagada, Victoria Island, among other places. From…