Igbobi College

Igbobi College is a Nigerian boys school that aims to provide excellence in learning and in the teaching of Christian values. Igbobi College was established by the Anglican and Methodist Churches in 1932, in Yaba suburb of Lagos, Lagos State, South-Western Nigeria. It is still on its original site and most of the original buildings are intact. It i... s one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges in Nigeria, having produced many notable figures in the Nigerian professional and political scenery. The founding of Igbobi College in 1932 was a follow-up to the 1926 Education Code, which was itself an attempt to revise and improve upon Lugard’s Education Code of 1916. In the relative economic boom of the late 1929s, the government followed up the Education Code with the establishment of a number of colleges around Nigeria. In 1928, the CMS and the Wesleyan Methodist Mission cooperated in founding one Teacher Training College for women in Ibadan called the United Missionary College. Its success led to the agreement to cooperate on another venture, a secondary school for boys in Lagos that would take account of the criticisms of existing secondary schools.Read More