Category: Government
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Louisville Girls School located in 114B, Ilupeju Way, Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi Lagos. Louisville was named after the 19th Century Roman Catholic priest born in Paris, Louis. The well-equipped school is a girls only school and is located in Ijebu-Itele. The school is run by the Sisters of St. Louis Nigeria province. The graceful nature of…
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Akinwuntan Abiodun is the Nigerian physical therapist whose doctoral study led to the first-ever use of a high fidelity and interactive driving simulator to train stroke patients to drive again, anywhere in the world. As a student at the University of Lagos, Biodun was gregarious and showed interest in business rather than academics. However, he…
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Akintunde Ojo was the third year student of the Faculty of Environmental Design of the University of Lagos shot dead in April 1978 by the police during a protest against the increment of in feeding and lodging school fee for Nigerian universities. The increment, occasioned by the belt-tightening policy of the federal government following the reversal…
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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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Harry Akande is a businessman and one time presidential aspirant born 1943 in Ibadan. As a child, Harry showed himself to be brilliant in academics and in sports. Being a staunch fan of the famous American singer, Harry Belafonte, Ayoade Akande took to the name ‘Harry,’ and is fondly called so. After the Olivet Heights…
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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…
