Category: Government
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Hallmark was established by Aralola Faturoti in the outskirts of Ondo town in 1995. Curriculum is Nigerian but some attention is paid to TOEFL and SAT. Far more hours is invested in Mathematics and English language subjects. The school is located in Italurowo Ondo-Akure Road, Ile-Oluji Junction, Ondo. Hallmark Secondary School has an impressive open…
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Hamzat Adisa Subair was an accountant, co-founder, and first CEO of Nigeria’s first indigenous bank, the National Bank of Nigeria Ltd. Born in Olowogbowo district of Lagos Island. Subair was educated at Kings’ College in Lagos before proceeding to the United Kingdom in 1919 for a course in Commerce and Accountancy. Thereafter, he obtained a…
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Hasfat Abiola; social entrepreneur and activist daughter of Nigerian politician and philanthropist, MKO Abiola. Hasfat was born 1974 in Lagos. Her secondary education was in the University of Lagos Staff School, and Queen’s College, both in Yaba, Lagos. She was in Harvard College for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy with special concentration…
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Holy Child College Ojo street, South West Ikoyi, Lagos., was established 1945 in Obalende, Lagos by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. Leo Taylor, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos had invited this group with the aim of providing education for girls. School campus evinces careful planning, with the lawns and well-lined Plam trees. Library…
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Ibadan International School (different from International School Ibadan) located in 24 Jibowu Crescent, Iyaganku, Ibadan, is a private secondary school in Ibadan with some international representation among students and staffs. IIS was founded in 2003 by the Zard Foundation. Facilities include a very well designed ICT Lab and library. September admission may be supplemented by…
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International School Ibadan was established 1963 as a joint project between the Ford Foundation and the University of Ibadan. Unlike most University secondary schools, I.S.I.’s purpose was not to accommodate University staff children but to provide standard education for expatriates and others who want world standard education for their children. In its effort to demonstrate…
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International School Lagos is the staff secondary school of the University of Lagos, established in 1981 within the University campus Akoka, Yaba, Lagos. This came as sequel to the elementary school that served primarily to educate staff children. Barely four years after the school founding, operations had commenced in its permanent site. Expectedly, the school…
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Folake Solanke is a lawyer and women activist, who in 1981 became the first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria. Folake was born in March 1932 in Abeokuta where she, among other intrigues, witnessed the unthinkable exile of the Alake to Oshogbo due to the activism of town women led by Funmi Ransome-Kuti. In 1945, Folake was…