Category: Education – Secondary
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Henry Dallimore was a pionner Christian missionary in old Ekiti Division and founder of the area’s premier secondary school; Christ School, Ado-Ekiti. Born 1885 in England, Dallimore came to Ekiti, Nigeria in 1925 alongside Rev. T. Harding, Mr. Babamboni, and Canon Jebb. Before this time, he had expressed his dissatisfaction with the defects and the conservatism…
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Deeper Life High School is the school founded by W.F Kumuyi, the pastor of Deeper Life Bible Church who is reputed for his fundamentalist approach to morality. The school design, very decent in its layout, has modern facilities. The school is full boarding but contacts between different sexes are minimized by design. The Nigerian national…
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D-Ivy is a private co-educational institution in Lagos founded in 1998 by Dr. (Mrs.) Oyinlola Ilo. D-Ivy College has operative accommodation, laboratory and library facilities. Academic achievement apparently enjoys the most attention and the school prides itself as delivering on that mission. The institution has annexes in Ota, Ogun state and Ikeja, Lagos. Many D-Ivy…
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Doregos Academy is a co-educational institution in Ipaja, Alimosho in Lagos. Doregos is a private school with well equipped science laboratories, learning resources center, ICT labs and classrooms. The school has recorded success in international Science and Technology competitions. It has also produced the youngest person in Africa to be a Microsoft Certified Professional. A group of…
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Dowen College is a private secondary school located in the Lekki area of Lagos. The school is co-educational and boarding facilities are provided. Dowen consciously train pupils to further their education in overseas universities. About 2,000 titles are shelved in the internet-ready library of the school, and there is a French cultural section within. Dowen…
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Eko Boys High School is a boys-only institution providing secondary level education. The school moved to its Mushin location in 1952. Structures of the school show signs of old age but it quaintly serve as pride, being the testimony to the school’s status as one of the country’s oldest and one of the best, some…
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Falomo High Shool, formerly known as Ireti Grammar School, then Ikoyi High School, was founded in September 1981. Although the State government established the school, it still had to grow out of the very ordinary. The Rotary Club joined in the school’s early years in providing some facilities to accommodate the swollen number of students.…
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Federal Government Girls College Akure was established in October 1977 with an initial population of 72 students in Oke Aro, an Akure suburb. FEGGICOLA, as it is often called, has a strong boarding culture with two headmistresses overseeing each of the five boarding houses. Expectedly, it dominated many schools in its region for a long…
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Federal Government College Ijanikin located in Kilometer 28, Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, was established in 1975 under temporary conditions. The Yaba Trade Center (now Federal Science and Technical College) which served as the site of the new secondary school proved inadequate for full school operations. The following decade started with the school moving to its present…