Category: Government
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Abeokuta Girls’ Grammar School was founded in 1953 through the recommendations and efforts of prominent indigenes and the Anglican Missionaries Abeokuta District Church Council. The school shared space with Abeokuta Girls Secondary Modern School, which was its forerunner in all-girls school. In 1959, it moved to Onikolobo. Since then, the host community had taken deep interest in…
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In this editorial of The Nigerian Provincial Guardian of 17 April, 1937, originally titled; “Education of the Mind,” the writer discusses what ought to be the object of education for the youth. The chief objects of mental education are to cultivate and discipline the mind, and to store it with those great facts and principles…
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Queen’s College is the sister college of King’s College, Lagos, founded in 1927. Queen’s College is historically prestigious and high student performance at joint external examinations has been consistent. This girls only school is government-owned with boarding facilities, located in Yaba, Lagos. It is presently one of the 104 Federal Government owned Unity colleges run…
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Kitoyi Ajasa was a key figure in Colonial Lagos born in 1866. His original name, Edmund Macaulay was relinquished upon his attainment of full qualifications as a lawyer in London. His family had returned from Sierra Leone upon their emancipation by British anti-slavery squadron to Ajase and afterwards, Lagos. At the age of 14 he…
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Postnatal (puerperal, postpartum) psychiatric disorders are mental conditions that arise in women within the first 42 days after childbirth. Based on the degree of severity, these conditions have been grouped into three; postnatal blues, postnatal depression, and postnatal psychosis, although they overlap to some extent. Blues Majority of women experience this with the symptoms…
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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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Remi Babalola is a banker and politician from Ibadan. Remi was born in 1964 into a polygamous family with little means, where education wasn’t much of a priority. His value for education apparently developed from his mother’s drive in funding even her female children’s education up till the tertiary level. Remi studied at the Lagos…
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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…