Category: Education – Secondary


  • Radiance High School was founded in September 1999 by F.L.O Menkiti and wife. Radiance High School was inspired by the success of the older junior school that came into existence ten years earlier. The school, which offers a boarding option for students, is located in Festac Town in Lagos. The school is amenable to the…

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  • Rainbow College is a co-educational secondary school now located in Johnson Street, Surulere. The school’s boarding facilities is situated along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Rainbow College was the first private all-boys college in Lagos when it was established in 1996. The school’s modernist approach to education is especially apparent in its Information Technology infrastructure, which enables connectivity…

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  • Sacred Heart Apapa is a missionary secondary school owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos. The school was reportedly founded in 2007 to salvage in microsm, the falling education standard in Nigeria. Sacred Heart College in Apapa is co-educational and there is a boarding option. The school, being a creation of modern times, have made…

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  • Solid Rock Girls Academy is a private all-girls’ secondary school in Sagamu. British model of teaching is used but with West African School Certificate exam in mind. The school’s unostentatious campus, located in Old Lagos-Ibadan Road, Sagamu, has facilities that may be available in any elite private school. Vocational education is included in a way…

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  • Solomon Grace International School is a private secondary school in Lagos. School boasts of well-designed laboratories, and maintains a lively culture. Graduating students, in a symbolic gesture, pass on a torch, called the torch of excellence, to representatives of the newer generation. The school’s colorful campus may have been purposed to invigorate student senses in…

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  • St. Gregory’s College is a boys only public secondary school in Obalende, Lagos. The school was established in January 1928. Local curriculum is used and students are presented for the WAEC exams at the end of the six years training. The school, located in St. Gregory’s Rd., Opposite Officers mess, Obalende, Lagos, is owned by…

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  • Igbobi College, located in Isaac John’s street, Lagos, was founded in 1932, in response to the changing colonial education code. Authorities of the Anglican CMS and the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, being convinced of the effectiveness of an academic environment under Christian influence had designed a spacious community that will house both students and instructors but the school’s…

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  • Ibadan Grammar School is a public secondary school founded in 1913 as a Christian school, the oldest of the 1,000 in Oyo state. With a long and very proud history, Ibadan Grammar School had moved to its present site, Molete, in 1951. Some nine years before then, the school had excised its elementary section to…

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  • Day Waterman College is a co-educational boarding school near Abeokuta. School was founded by Tayo Aderinokun, who was also one of the co-founders of Guaranty Trust Bank. The school has a FIFA sized football pitch, basketball courts, Golf practice green and other awe inspiring sports facilities. The school Library, though surprisingly not as ostentatious, is…

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  • C.M.S. Grammar School is Nigeria’s first secondary school, established in June 1859 by Church Missionary Society, a Christian organization dedicated to the promotion of the faith. Herbert Macaulay’s father, Thomas Babington, as founder, had served as the school’s first principal. Primary schools in Lagos at this time were not up to ten. Expectedly, it was…

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