Nigeria’s second oldest secondary school, founded by an individual — Ibadan Boys’ High School — clocks 80, and the old boys are on a mission to make their school great again.
By 1938, Ibadan, the largest and most populous city in Nigeria and the second most populous in Africa after Egypt’s Cairo, had only two secondary schools which could admit boys. Total number of students in both schools was 293. As it were, because both schools are owned by missionaries or the colonial authorities, intake was not just low but it was also open to all Nigerians, despite that they were located in the city.
So, many who were qualified for secondary education had to seek admission in other parts of the country, particularly Lagos, which had a larger number of government and missionary schools.
A product of one of the schools (Ibadan Grammar School, founded by the Church Missionary…
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