Category: Education – Secondary
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Luba Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Ijebu Ode founded by Alhaji Olanrewau Ambaliu Sanni in June, 1972, after years of managing the elementary school section. The school had unusually commenced with a large number, about 150, at inception, a third of which eventually made it to the final class. Authority considers this a…
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Margaret Claires Comprehensive College is a school by the founder of Nickdel Schools, established 2012 in Ibadan to cater for the specifics of girl-child education. Classes had started with only six students in spite of the reputation it had gathered over the years with the highly successful sister schools. Nigerian National curriculum is used alongside…
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Maryland Comprehensive is a co-educational secondary school established in 1969 on the site of the relocated St. Agnes Teacher’s College. The school in its first decade offered boarding facilities for girls, but this was to be truncated with the 1979 Lagos State government take-over of missionary schools. The school was upgraded to the status…
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Mayors Height College was established by the Iya ewe of Ikeja, Mrs. Morohundiya who drew inspiration from the success of her initial project, the primary school precursor to the secondary school, Mayors Height. Like many private secondary schools in Lagos, moral upbringing of pupils constitutes a major part of the school’s objective. While success rate…
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Air Force Comprehensive School was established in 1991 by the military administration in Oyo State. The school commenced operations in the Iyana-Offa, Ibadan facilities of the vacated Teacher’s Training College. Air Force Comprehensive School was at inception very selective in student’s admission and the culture continues till recent times. Management ambition in instilling Spartan discipline…
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Nigerian Navy Secondary School Abeokuta is a boys only secondary school established on 2 February 1991 as the second Nigerian Navy secondary school. The school is located at the site of the defunt St. Leo’s Teacher Training College in Ibara, Abeokuta. Success of the Ojo Navy school and subsequent upsurge in student population had necessitated…
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Nigerian Navy Secondary School Ojo is the first Nigerian Navy secondary school. The Ojo Navy School was established in 1982 originally to educate children of serving and retired Navy personnel. The success of this experiment had inspired the creation of Abeokuta and Ogbomosho schools, among others. This Navy school, located within the Nigerian Navy barracks…
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Nigerian Turkish College, established in 1998 as a co-educational secondary school with sister schools in Ogun and Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Yobe. Nigerian-Turkish international College is run by Surat Education Limited. The school holds an annual national language festival to promote cordiality in Nigeria. The mission statement of the school satisfactorily attests to the clarity…
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Ijebu Ode Grammar School was established in 1913 by Rev. Gansallo under the Anglican Church of Nigeria, then known as C.M.S., the school had started in a private building donated by a clergy, J.B Sadare. The Silver jubilee of the school was marked by the movement to its present site at Abeokuta Road. Then, the…
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Israel Ransome Kuti was a pioneer educationist and union activist, born 30 April 1891 in Abeokuta. Israel was like his father before him, an Anglican priest. When he left the Lagos Grammar School, he became the first pupil to be enrolled at Abeokuta Grammar School in 1908. His education continued at Fourah Bay College from…