Have you ever wondered why the face of Alvan Ikoku is in Nigerian currency even before those of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello and Obafemi Awolowo?

Who was this great Nigerian and what were his achivements?


Born on August 1, 1900 in Arochukwu, present-day Abia State, from 1911 to 1914, he was educated at the Arochukwu Government Primary School and from 1915 to 1920, he attended Hope Waddell College, Calabar where he was a student under James Emmanuel Aggrey and was mates with Akanu Ibiam and Eyo Eyo Esua. While teaching at Awka, Ikoku earned his University of London degree in Philosophy in 1928, through its external programme.


In 1932, Alvan Ikoku established a Co-Educational Secondary School in West Africa: the Aggrey Memorial Secondary School, located in Arochukwu and named after his mentor James E.K. Aggrey, an eminent Ghanaian educationist.

In 1946, after several constitutional changes allowing more Nigerians in the legislative chambers, he was nominated to the Eastern Nigeria House of Assembly and assigned to the ministry of education.

In 1947 he became part of the Legislative Council in Lagos as one of three representatives of the Eastern Region. He is celebrated as a revolutionary educationist in Nigeria.


In 1962, he called for an 'Education Bill of Rights' for primary school education to be free for six years nationwide in Nigeria. This was later accepted by the Federal Military Government as from 1976. Today free education to all primary school has been granted.

Dr Ikoku still remains a great icon in Nigerian academical development and one of the most outstanding educationists ever had in Nigeria.
The Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education in Owerri, Imo State was named in his honour and of course, his face is emblazoned on the ten naira note. It was at this school that the first full-fledged Igbo Language Department in Nigeria was established in 1975.


Also, Alvan Ikoku Crescent, University of Lagos Campus, Akoka was named after him. Same with the Alvan Ikoku Hostel at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. A road called Alvan Ikoku Way, in Maitama, Abuja (Capital of Nigeria) was also named after him. Alvanville, opposite Aggrey Memorial College in Arochukwu is named after him and was the site of the funeral of his son, Chimere.


He died on November 18, 1971 at Aba general hospital.

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Great Nigerian.

Nigeria still produces great people today, but the lustre of the past is gone, long gone.

Who Is Dr Alvan Ikoku And Why Is His Face On N10 Note?

He's a Nigerian, his face is on the note because he won't stop stealing it back then.. So we decide to put his face on it..

Make una no bite me o.

Iamkuttie:

How will person go to Swimming pool with Soap and Sponge??

Iffa mention tribe now, it will seems like am Insulting Yoruba people deliberately.

lol, weyrey re o

fuckerstard:
Who Is Dr Alvan Ikoku And Why Is His Face On N10 Note?

He's a Nigerian, his face is on the note because he won't stop stealing it back then.. So we decide to put his face on it..

Make una no bite me o.

hahahaha, you are funny.
The man was a great man nonetheless.

Thanks for sharing @ OP.

Continue to RIP Pa Ikoku

He was indeed great, unlike our today's president who is only interested in his cows..

One day my face will be on a country's monetary note....

He was a fine man...

Can i call him Legend?

Okkk

aribisala0:
I don't understand how a person will wake up in the morning and greet his parents with kicks or slaps.
How a human entity can consume rocks without drinking water. Let me not mention Flat-ties now before they say I insulted one tribe that their women are hairy

Pele o. Before you point one finger at someone, remember d other four are pointing back at you. you prostrate to greet your elders in d morning but cut off their heads at night. how can I ever understand how a homo erectus will eat amala and slimy soup with unwashed hands immediately after bowel movement. if I mention cone heads now,people will say I insulted one tribe that the load of dirt on their women undies can kill all the fishes in d ocean.

Celebrate greatness and not mediocrity.....until we make a 360 turn to start celebrating people that achieved greatness just we used to do instead of celebrating mediocres such as ex BBN housemates, baby mamas, unscrupulous celebrities and corrupt politicians. Nigeria will continue to fall and decay

I go the nursery, primary and secondary school. Alvan ikoku .. a great school indeed

anibirelawal:
Can i call him Legend?

Yes please

PrimadonnaO:
He was a fine man...

Yaba Left!

He's an Arochukwu man like me.

Good...he was an educationist.

adadike:
Pele o. Before you point one finger at someone, remember d other four are pointing back at you. you prostrate to greet your elders in d morning and cut off their heads at night. how can I ever understand how a homo erectus will eat amala and slimy soup with unwashed hands immediately after bowel movement. if I mention cone heads now,people will say I insulted one tribe that the load of dirt on their women undies can kill all the fishes in d ocean.

At least you can speak 9ja official language... Yoruba. Great!

G-man

ogunholla:
lol, weyrey re o

big time weyre

aribisala0:
I don't understand how a person will wake up in the morning and greet his parents with kicks or slaps.
How a human entity can consume rocks without drinking water. Let me not mention Flat-ties now before they say I insulted one tribe that their women are hairy

I am not Igbo, but I am hairy, what can you say abt that?

Blackfire:
One day my face will be on a country's monetary note....

Really? Oh you mean a country within ur sitting room, abi? Ode.

Umu Igbo making Nigeria proud since 1900. Buhari incompetence have made 10 naira useless and soon we will forget about this legend

Great men of those days not the GRASSCUTTER,i dnt collect salary,baba London and other THIEVES dat looted the treasury N invested in their own on their children .

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