The problem with some people is that they don't know when to oppose and when not to. Something is obvious, but they'll keep arguing because they can't think. Just oppose for the sake of opposing.
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VIDEO: How I drove telecom vandals at gunpoint to robbery in Lagos — Oyo driver
A driver from Oyo State, Kehinde Olaleye, has narrated how he was allegedly forced at gunpoint to drive suspected telecom vandals to a robbery scene in Lagos.
Olaleye, who spoke in a video after his arrest, said he was contacted eight days earlier while at Iwo Road Terminal 2 in Ibadan to take some passengers to Lagos to pick up inverter batteries.
According to him, the trip started like a normal transport job.
“8 days ago, one of the driver of our chairman there called me that there’s there are some guys that want to go to Lagos,” he said.
The 41-year-old driver explained that the passengers told him they were inverter repairers and wanted to pick up batteries in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos.
He said they negotiated the transport fare before agreeing on ₦180,000, with ₦50,000 paid upfront for fuel.
Olaleye said he became uncomfortable during the journey because of the passengers’ repeated phone calls and their behaviour.
“When when I got to Oshodi, I say, ‘No, I don’t want to continue with this journey anymore.’”
According to him, the men tried to calm his fears and insisted they were not criminals. To reassure him, one of them gave him two phone numbers.
“They now said they are not thieves now, that we should go. They gave me two numbers.”
Olaleye said he immediately sent the numbers to his wife and a police officer friend in Ibadan because he was already suspicious of the trip.
“Immediately, I forwarded the two numbers to one of my friend that is a police officer in Ibadan and my friend and my wife that I’m going with some guys to somewhere, they said they want to go and carry inverter battery, o. I don’t uh my mind is not at rest, o, that they should keep the information.”
He said they later arrived in Iyana Ipaja, where the men claimed they had reached the place to collect the batteries.
Olaleye said the men got down while he went to eat, but when they returned, they asked him to continue the journey.
He said he refused because it was already late, but one of the men allegedly threatened him with a gun.
“The one in the front now open his clothes, that he will shoot me if I don’t want to go. That was when I know that ah I’m in a wrong hand.”
He said the men later stopped at another location where some of them got down and spoke with a security guard before going behind a facility and returning with batteries.
“Later, after some minutes, they came back with battery, they drop it in the car.”
Olaleye said he kept praying to see police officers because he feared for his life.
“From there, I was praying that we should see police, that my mind no dey inside, o. I’m not a robber. I’ve never robbed before in my life.”
He said his chance came when they approached a junction and he noticed a vehicle coming.
According to him, the suspects ordered him to make a turn, but he refused and switched off the vehicle.
“I say, ‘I cannot turn. Me, I cannot turn.’ Before I know, I just off the ignition and the policeman now come.”
Olaleye said the five men in the vehicle fled immediately, leaving him behind.
“The five of them… opened the car, they run away and I was telling the police that I’m a driver from Ibadan. I’m not a thief, o.”
He maintained that he did not know the suspects before the trip.
“I don’t know them,” he said.
Appealing to Nigerians, Olaleye insisted he was innocent and asked for help.
“So, Nigerians should please help me, o… People should help me, please, o.”
I witness the intrigues of the principal cup in the late 80's
When my alma mater Lagos Baptist Academy a.k.a Aka, Baptacad was a prominent team,
Aka was to meet Igbobi in the 1988 quater-finals.
Some Aka boys went towards the Igbobi end of Ikorodu road to prevent Igbobi supporters from attending the match at Vaughn in Maryland.
The report of the violent clash reached Aka and the principal had to call an assembly where the students were warned against getting involved in violence.
I think Aka won the match eventually, and lost to CMS in the semi-finals thru penalty.
Bestman and Angler were two of Aka popular players.
But the competition was banned in the early 90's because of hooliganism and violence.
Shinor: Wale this is the kind of topics that make old men cry. Nuff said already about the logistics-the hiring of danfo, Molue etc. It was a thing of pride to see your school team players coming down from the air conditioned school coaster. I spent 1 year in Zumratul Islamiyya(not an al Quaedda training camp) and the only 2 things the school was renowned for was Principal's Cup Violence and Football. We produced the great Haruna Ilerika. Paul Okoku was 2 yrs my senior before going to Finbarrs. So was Sunday Benson. Friday Ekpo was almost a father when i met him there. He was the only man in the world who bore the names Monday and Friday. Then i left for Jibril Martins. And as soon as i saw this topic, my raced to 1982 Q-Finals. Jibril Martins School 3( later Iponri High School) V the Mighty CMS. Goalless for a long time only for CMS to nick it 1-0. Jibril's Keeper was Flying Eagles Fatai Alabi. It was while at Jibril Martins that i met with Yaya Okoronwata( Tarilla's Kid brother) through whom i later met Tarilla. Nuff Memories- I no gree read because of Football. Remember CKC Onitsha who went on to win the World Secondary school soccer competition? Thanks for this topic, God Bless You richly. may you draw out many more topics of like manner. Such as Litt Day( Literary and Debating Society Day), Nna. That na another day's topic as my pastor will say. Principal's Cup was to me at that time, more exciting than the champions league.
These posts are from a 2007 Nairaland thread. They are referring to the Principals Cup of the 1970 and '80s.
Lawijo: Walelead, Those were the good, good old days men! As a grammarian, (CMS Grammar school) I do reminisce often with my friends on this topic. You know, it was the principal cup that brought spectular footballers as; Henry Nwosu, Stephen Keshi, Paul Okoku, Wakilu Oyenuga etc to limelight. I don't know how deeply involved you were. But I do remember like yesterday, all the logistic preparation going into organising the supporters clubs. Hiring Molues / Danfos to convey students to the stadiums to support their teams. And all the singing and chanting to gear up your team. Then, as youths, we had something sportive and social flowing out of an educational setting / organisation that we could identify with and were very proud of. Looking back, one cannot but help observing that Nigeria has changed a great deal and not for the better. I do remember the competitiveness between us (CMS) and St.Finbarrs. We were neighbours and at the same time competitors. Apart from the educational achievements: like which shool had the best results, and higher number of admissions into higher institutions, the principal cups was like the factor to seal that sentiment of superiority. We should not forget other major schools that contributed substantially to the success of the pricipal cup phynomenom then. Schools like; ICY (Igbobi college), St. Gregory' college, Baptist academy (Baptakads), Anwaru Islam etc. The joy and sportive performances were occassionally overshadowed by violence, but overall, the positive impact it had on our lives then, is a life-long one! Wale men, nice one! You made my day with this. Thanks.
Professor Sam Akpabot was a musicologist, a lecturer (he taught music at universities), a musician (he released several records in the 1960s and '70s), a newspaper columnist (I read his column in the 1980s) and a sports analyst.
Despite the fact that he was a famous musician, he would carry his trumpet and go and sit with the supporters club whenever the Green Eagles were playing and the NTA would interview him at half time.
This Professor Akpabot's account of the 1946 Grier Cup race (when he was still a student at Kings College).
“But the event that I shall always remember most is the 220 yards relay, which was won by St Gregory’s College from King’s College by inches.
The third lap of this relay produced a terrible duel between Ibisi (St Greg’s) and Idowu (King’s College); and in the last leg, Abengowe had the baton ten yards ahead of Munis, the frail sprinter from St Gregory’s. I had run the second leg and was looking forward to a King’s College victory in record-breaking time (the record then stood at 1’ 36” held by Government College Ibadan).
I remember our Games Master, Mr. J. A. Ojo, turning his back to the track and muttering in Yoruba “Otan” (it is finished).
But what was that? Munis was fast gaining on Abengowe. On and on came the wonderful Munis who now appeared to be running on air, on and on until he passed Abengowe at the tap in 1’ 37.2”
Unfortunately the place where I saved this account has eaten the end of the story and I can't remember the exact exclamation of Professor Akpabot's games master.
I have just realised that, due to age, some might not understand the issue of prestige.
When I was a kid the rivalry between some of the great old schools of Lagos was greater than Manchester United vs Liverpool and Barcelona vs Real Madrid.
Sports competitions between the schools was broadcast live on radio and it was intense. Entire distticts of Lagos adopted some of these schools as their sports teams.
If you were from one of these schools, you would not be happy if your peers and opponents are doing better than you.
I am going to search for Sam Akpabot's account of the battle between Kings College and St Gregory's College in athletics and a Nairalander's account of the battle between Igbobi College and Boys Academy in football. Maybe then you'll understand.
Ojuntana: I don't understand this story Kings college is a federal school not state owned Why will KCOBA have ill feelings because state govt privatize their schools when it's not as if KC was left out or something? From what I know the move to take over the school by KCOBA has been on before 1999
U09ce: The concession in itself is not a problem. But everyone knows the alumni will invest for at least some profit. Thus, children of the poor man would have no place in such colleges
The alumni is not making any profit from it. It is about prestige, rather than profit.
They want to be able to point to KC and say, "This is the school I attended" and be proud of it. For that to happen the school must look good, perform very well in academics, sports and other areas and it must produce good and famous alumni. That's why they are doing this.
King’s College: Why we disagree with concessioning –parents community
10 July 2026
Federal Government’s concessioning of King’s College Lagos has continued to attract rejection from the school’s unit of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN).
The parents community of the foremost unity college also disagreed with the arrangement.
The Federal Government had approved concessioning of the college to its old boys association.
Chairman of King’s College Lagos Unit of ASCSN, Mr Enang Samuel, all the staff of the college rejected the concession.
He said that the Federal Government should retain ownership of the college and continue to operate it.
The chairman stressed that concessioning the 116-year-old school would serve private interests rather than public good.
He urged the government not to commercialise the college, saying that King’s College Lagos workers would resist the concession through lawful means.
“All members of staff of King’s College reject this concession and are prepared for any legitimate action to defend government ownership of the college and protect public interest,” he said.
Mr Olatunji Ojulari, chairman of King’s College Lagos Parents Community, expressed displeasure at the development.
Ojulari said the college remained a national monument.
“We respectfully but totally disagree with the concession approval.
“Our forefathers never donated this land for commercial purposes but to guarantee affordable quality education for generations of Nigerians.”
He said that implementing the concession would undermine the school’s vision by placing quality education beyond the reach of many families.
“Ojulari said that King’s College Lagos had been delivering excellent education at an affordable cost.
“Concession of the school will impose financial burdens on countless parents,” he said.
According to him, those wishing to establish private schools should invest their own resources and land.
“King’s College belongs to Nigerians and should never become a commercial enterprise.”
A teacher, who pleaded anonymity, said she was uncomfortable with the arrangement noting that the true intentions were not clear to many stakeholders.
“I have reservations because nobody truly knows the intentions behind this development.”
She noted that King’s College Lagos had benefitted from a longstanding partnership with the King’s College Old Boys Association.
According to the teacher, scholarship awards and other interventions by the association had promoted teaching and learning in the college.
“I believe that the partnership can continue without altering the college’s status as a government-owned institution,” she said.
A King’s College Lagos student, who also pleaded anonymity, said the concession had generated mixed feelings among students.
He expressed hope that the Federal Government and the old boys association would work together to preserve the school’s rich heritage and improve infrastructure in the college.
“We want a situation in which the government and the old boys will work together to protect our school’s legacy, improve learning facilities and put students’ welfare and academic excellence first,” he said.
Workers’ union rejects King’s College, other unity schools’ concession
July 10, 2026
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria has rejected the reported concession of King’s College, Lagos, to its Old Boys’ Association, warning that handing over the institution and other Federal Government Colleges to private entities would make them unaffordable for millions of Nigerian students and threaten the jobs of workers.
The union also urged the Federal Government to halt any plan to concession or privatise the 120 unity schools, insisting that the colleges should remain national assets established to promote unity and provide quality education for children from all parts of the country.
The National Vice-President of the ASCSN, Dr Olubunmi Fajobi, stated this during a press conference held at King’s College, Lagos, on Wednesday.
The union’s reaction comes days after the King’s College Old Boys’ Association announced that the Federal Government had approved the concession of the 116-year-old institution to the alumni body under a new governance arrangement.
But Fajobi said the reported concession raised fundamental questions about the future of students and employees of the school.
Fajobi said, “We are informing Nigerians of current efforts to cede the 120 Federal Government Colleges to private individuals and, through that process, make the schools inaccessible to millions of Nigerian students because of the exorbitant fees that will be charged.”
He added, “Besides, once the schools are privatised, millions of employees, namely education officers teaching in the schools and other workers, will be thrown into the oversaturated labour market, the negative social consequences of which we cannot now predict.”
Fajobi recalled that the union had, on July 1, issued a statement urging the Federal Government not to hand over unity schools to private entrepreneurs, including alumni associations.
He said KCOBA’s subsequent announcement that King’s College had been concessioned to it necessitated the fresh briefing.
“If the Old Boys’ Association claims that the school has been ceded to them, what is the template they have designed to deal with the students and the employees of the college?
“This is why we maintain our position that the school should not be handed over to private entities,” he said.
The labour leader alleged that the latest move mirrored an attempt made in 2005 during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to transfer Federal Government Colleges to private operators under a Public-Private Partnership arrangement.
According to him, the union mobilised workers, students, parents, civil society organisations, religious leaders and host communities to resist the plan.
“We embarked on dialogues, strikes, including one that lasted seven weeks, and even litigations to preserve the schools for Nigerian children and prevent millions of employees from losing their jobs,” he said.
Fajobi noted that normalcy only returned to the unity school system in 2010 after former President Goodluck Jonathan ordered the restoration of the junior secondary school components that had earlier been removed from the colleges.
“It is unfortunate that 16 years after the unity school system returned to normalcy, efforts have been renewed to destabilise them.
“Millions of Nigerian children ought not to be subjected to this periodic trauma over attempts to deny them quality secondary education by adults bent on turning the unity colleges into their private estates,” he added.
He argued that the unity schools were established by Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, to foster national integration by bringing together children from different ethnic, religious and social backgrounds.
“That the schools have continued to wax stronger today and have grown to 120, 60 years after they were established, is eloquent testimony to Sir Balewa’s ingenuity and vision.
“The least the present generation of political leaders can do is sustain the institutions as a legacy for national integration rather than sell them to private entrepreneurs so they become accessible only to children of the privileged,” he said.
The union maintained that apart from likely increases in school fees, concessioning the schools could also result in widespread job losses among teachers and other employees.
KCOBA had, on Monday, announced that the Federal Government approved the concession of King’s College, describing the decision as the beginning of a “King’s College Renaissance.”
Its President, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, however, pointed out that the arrangement was neither a sale nor privatisation of the institution but a new governance framework through which the association would partner with the Federal Government to restore and modernise the college.
“It is not the sale of King’s College. It is not the privatisation of King’s College. It is not the abandonment of King’s College by the Federal Government.
“Rather, it is the establishment of a new governance framework through which KCOBA will partner with the government to restore, strengthen, modernise and sustain one of Nigeria’s greatest educational institutions,” Ibrahim-Imam had said.
He assured Nigerians that the school’s federal character would remain intact and that admissions would continue to reflect national diversity.
The KCOBA president also announced a N100bn Collegium Fund to finance infrastructure renewal, digital transformation, teacher development, scholarships and other interventions, stressing that the association had no intention of transferring the financial burden of the project to parents.
“We believe that the children of ordinary Nigerians deserve extraordinary educational opportunities,” he said.
I have been talking to senior members of the Kings College Old Boys Association for months and this is basically what's happening.
The Federal Military Government announced the take over of missionary schools in the 1970s. They believed that it was a security risk to put the education of Nigerian children in the hands of foreign missionaries. They handed the schools over to state and local governments.
However, states and local governments have a lot of responsibilities and Nigeria developed serious economic problems in the 1980s and 1990s. The state and local governments did not properly fund the schools and they became run down and were in a bad shape. There was a massive campaign that the schools should be returned to their original owners who were able to run them properly.
One of the first actions of the Bola Tinubu administration in Lagos in 1999 was to announce that the schools would be handed back to their original owners.
The return of the first batch of schools was completed in 2001.
The churches, other private owners and former students pumped a lot of money into the schools. Schools that looked like war zones when they were run by the Lagos State Government (no windows, no electricity, etc) were now looking like schools in developed countries.
This caused a bad feeling among Kings College Old Boys. Kings College was founded by the Colonial Government in 1909 and it has been run by the Federal Government of Nigeria since 1958. Some of the most famous people in Nigeria attended the school and it was seen as a model government school. However, it has not been well funded in recent decades. Some schools that Kings College was far ahead of in the 1980s were now soaring far ahead of KC. These schools looked advanced, while KC now looked like the war zone.
These Kings College Old Boys have been campaigning that the government should hand the school over to them so that they can transform it just like the missionary schools have been transformed. They have been touring old boys associations of the returned schools to learn how they transformed the schools, so that the can do the same at KC.
However, there is a problem. Some teachers complained in 1999 when the Lagos State Government announced that it would hand schools back to the missionaries. This was because they were afraid that they would get sacked.
The Lagos State Government and the churches had to assure the teachers that they have a choice to remain in the returned schools or to move to other Lagos State Government owned schools.
Similarly, Dr Oby Ezekwesili tried to concession Unity (Federal Government owned) schools when she was minister of education, but the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) launched a massive propaganda campaign against her because they were afraid that their members would be sacked.
The NUT scared parents by telling them that they would be made to pay high school fees that they could not afford and so the parents also started protesting and President Obasanjo cancelled the programme.
Alumni Mobilize ₦100bn as Federal Government Approves Strategic Concession of King’s College, Lagos
By Samuel Anyanwu - July 7, 2026
The Federal Government has officially approved a groundbreaking concession agreement granting management rights of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association (KCOBA). Announcing the development at a press conference at the Metropolitan Club in Victoria Island, KCOBA President, Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, described the transfer as a pivotal moment in the institution’s 116-year history. He emphasized that the agreement does not constitute a sale or privatization, but rather an innovative public-private governance framework designed to rehabilitate, modernize, and sustain the prestigious institution through a collaborative partnership with the state.
Addressing immediate public concerns regarding accessibility, the alumni association stressed that the institutional transition will not alter the secondary school’s founding mission or diversity. The college will strictly maintain its traditional federal character, ensuring admissions remain open to students from all socio-economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds across Nigeria. To guarantee that the cost of this institutional overhaul does not translate into a financial burden for parents, the association has launched a historic ₦100 billion collegium fund, designed to insulate regular families from increased educational fees while funding extensive structural upgrades.
The ambitious modernization blueprint is anchored on a comprehensive seven-pillar strategy targeting infrastructure renewal, digital transformation, and governance reforms. KCOBA plans to fully rehabilitate the campus architecture, including laboratories, hostels, libraries, and sports complexes, while introducing advanced educational technologies such as artificial intelligence-assisted learning, robotics hubs, coding programs, and campus-wide broadband connectivity. Structurally, the newly established King’s College Education Trust will oversee long-term administrative operations, led by elder statesman Alhaji Femi Okunnu, SAN, as President of the college, and prominent businessman Sunny Kuku as Vice President.
Financial backing for the massive undertaking has already seen substantial commitments from high-profile stakeholders. The ₦100 billion fund will be chaired by the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, with economist and businessman Atedo Peterside serving as Vice Chairman, alongside key participation from former Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki. Demonstrating immediate financial momentum, Ibrahim-Imam announced a personal donation of ₦1 billion, complemented by ₦100 million contributions each from Alhaji Okunnu and Chief Philip Asiodu. The association has called upon corporate organizations, global development partners, and the school’s international alumni network to contribute resources, mentorship, and expertise toward securing the institution’s future legacy.
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