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Pls what is wrong with someone preaching holding a condom? Was he caught with charms? Just condom, ordinary condom,simple condom... Mtcheew... Can't a man of God have sex again,dere are many married men who uses condom for some reasons example: if they aren't expecting a baby yet, dey might do dat...

Are u sure he was arrested in this picture? It looks as if the king was being followed by his guards...... Abi dem no get handcuff dos days ni?

Etisalat all d way.... Subscribed with 100 naira and since last year october, he never finish.... God bless d network of d masses........

Also knwn to me as FARINA

Abeg, who go con marry dos ladies sowi dos giants.... She go beat hell out of me

TO God be the glory. I am alive to see this once in a lifetime event. I have no doubt in my mind that this expression captures the feelings of most of us who are privileged to see the Ibadan Grammar School Centenary, the Centenary of our great alma mater, one in the league of the 10 oldest secondary schools in Nigeria and certainly the oldest in Oyo State of Nigeria.

Most of us cannot help but feel that indeed it is an august event to be cherished in the gamut of our existence. Most of our cherished members who had been part of the Ibadan Grammar School family would have loved to see this day. But sadly enough, it could not be so. One of such prominent one among them was the great Alex Ibru the founder and chairman of The Guardian newspaper. For those of us who are privileged to see it, happily for us including Goodie Ibru, the highly esteemed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our alma mater, one could imagine the sense of fulfillment that must attend the experience. It is like witnessing the turn of a new century or more importantly, the turn of a new millennium that happened in the lives of many of us just over a decade ago.

We can also liken it to the cycle of the Halley’s comet, which comes once in every 76 years and which most people can hardly see twice. To our members who are no longer with us today to celebrate this august event, we thank God for their lives. In humility and solemnity, we carry their memories with us. They will always be with us in spirit as they continue to remain perpetually with their maker.

It was the very first secondary school in Oyo state. The laying of its foundation was on the 31st of March 1913. (the significance of this day for us today as a Christian Anglican-based school is that it falls on Easter Sunday). The British Empire undoubtedly was the most influential sovereign in the world at the time with its tentacles heavily present in what was then southern Nigeria where Ibadan, the capital of what today is known as Oyo state was located. The British Empire with its enormous influence around the world claimed to champion the cause of civilization. As controversial as the claim may be, this influence was adequately represented on the day Ibadan Grammar School was established. The representative of the British Monarch resident in Ibadan was there. Civilization is about culture, finesse and civility. These qualities of civilization constitute the universal fabric of a true society. Since inception the calibre of people Ibadan Grammar School had churned out symbolized culture, finesse and civility that conformed with universal best practices. We are not saying that we are saints. Like every other human beings, we may have flaws that may be detected by those whose specialization is to find weaknesses in their fellow human beings. What I am saying is that it could be said with authority, pride and with out apologies that Ibadan Grammar School’s products in the last one hundred years have been in the forefront among those who had shaped the destiny of the Nigerian nation to date.

We are using this medium too, to salute the heroic efforts of other institutions in what they might have done in their different ways to contribute to the making of Nigeria and I say more power to their elbow and God bless them all. However these institutions may just have to give it to us that this is our year, a significant year, our centenary year. It is to be believed that some institutions must have sprung up during these last one hundred years but along the line had gone back into oblivion. After one hundred years Ibadan Grammar School is still growing and moving from strength to strength. Its roots are firmly fastened to the ground. Its stem, robustly sturdy.

The universal fabric of Ibadan Grammar School at its inception could be said to have influenced its cosmopolitan disposition as it was developing to take its position in the comity of worthy institutions. From the way the school continued to evolve into its mission it was clear that the visionaries behind the development of the school had and understood the world view of education. They knew that education  in the best tradition of the word must be broad based. It must not only include the academic and the intellectual, the moral and the spiritual, as well as the physical, above all, it must never be parochial in such a negative way that must affect peaceful co-existence and the brotherhood of man.

In this respect Ibadan Grammar School which could be regarded as the brain child of the Anglican Christian communion spear headed by the late Bishop Alexander Babatunde Akinyele never discriminated in its admission policy. Although as a student of the school you were expected to participate in the  Christian religious ceremonies of the school. The truth of the matter however is that it does not translate into any attempt to convert anybody into Christianity. The compulsory participation of every student was to fulfill all righteousness. Nobody was ever compelled to change religion. In this sense, many Muslims, animists and probably atheists passed through the wall of Ibadan Grammar School safely with their beliefs if they were still interested in them. The unwritten principle of the school no doubt is that by the time you leave Ibadan Grammar School, if indeed you are a Mountaineer as the Ibadan Grammarian is typically known, you will carry out of that school in your character, the stamp of culture, finesse and civility. To our mentors, that is good enough to show case you as a child of God even if you don’t call yourself a Christian. Christianity in its true concept should be nothing more than that.

Ibadan Grammar School as I said from inception seemed strongly to have a world view of education. Students are not only admitted from across Nigeria dating back to almost eighty years as far as my research could carry me, they also come from neighbouring countries. In my own time in the school two white Britons were actually part of the student body. The beautiful experience that formed my lot from this cosmopolitan nature of Ibadan Grammar School and which many of my compatriots shared through their own experiences too, is that if the world sincerely allows it, it is certain that people from diverse backgrounds could live in brotherliness, peace and harmony.

As it is typical among human beings there were fights among students in my own time as you would also get among brothers and sisters. Indeed that was the nature of these occasional fights among the students of Ibadan Grammar School. It was in the nature of what you get among siblings because we were indoctrinated well into an orientation that saw us as brothers and sisters. I could never recall an occasion when there were fights among students and it was attributed to ethnic differences or religious misunderstanding as it could also be. I am of the Yoruba stock. I had many seniors in the school from the other ethnic groups. If you offended them, they would ‘deal’ with you and you might sweat. But it just never crossed my mind that somebody from a ‘foreign’ land had come to ‘deal’ with me on my own soil. The climate of orientation in our school was that rather than see the incident from such a parochial perspective the senior would rather  remind you of what some of your older siblings or elders at home do to you  when you misbehave. That exactly was the perspective from which you perceived him too – another brother or sister as the case may be. Albeit an extended one.

We have to give a lot of kudos to our mentors in this respect. They laboured very well to mortify the embers of prejudice and discriminations. Ibadan Grammar School was one school where you have children of prominent politicians from diverse colourations and while their fathers were fighting each other bitterly on the political terrain, their children in Ibadan Grammar School would be playing among themselves beautifully. In this significant respect I have to single out Papa Alayande .


Today by the grace of God in this significant centenary year, that same ‘boy’ sits eminently as the national president of the Ibadan Grammar School old students’ association. Papa Alayande did not stage manage it. He had long been dead before it happened. God indeed moves in mysterious ways. He surely has a foot in our almamater. The motto of our school is Deo et patriae meaning ‘for God and our father land’. The school indeed is for Him and our entire fatherland.


During Papa Alayande’s time, the sporting life of Ibadan Grammar School was very vibrant to the point where the products of the school were a force to reckon with even up to the national level. Whatever were needed by us to make us stay formidable were never denied us. In my own time we did not win the vital football cup but we could boast of the fact that Tesilimi ‘thunder’ Balogun was our footballcoach. That was a prolific footballer of his day who has a prominent stadium named after him today in Lagos. Although we might not have won any vital football competition in my time it was during the time of thunder Balogun as the school’s football coach 1968/69 school year that Felix Adedeji popularly known as ‘thundi’ the school’s football prefect  in 1969 came into limelight. He was not only adjudged the best school boy football player in Nigeria, at that point in time he was already playing for a top first division team based in Western Nigeria. One of our expatriate American tutors Mr. Johnson was instrumental in the virile development of the basketball in our school such that not long afterwards in 1967, we won the national championship. Ibadan Grammar School was a leading school in lawn tennis in my time as the coach of the school was the Nigerian champion and the international star of the time, Thompson Onibokun. It was a time when Tunde Oremule from Ibadan Grammar School was a shining lawn tennis star at the national level.  The school’s table tennis prowess was such that we produced quite a number of national champions. Two of them Babatunde Obisanya, went on to become the national table tennis coach and Brigadier General  Jide Adebiyi(rtd) went on to become the first Director  General of sports of the Nigerian armed forces. Boxing as a sport thrived very well in my days at Ibadan Grammar School.


Our social life was an admixture of the modern and the traditional. ‘All work and no play’ as they say ‘makes jack a dull boy’. In this respect our principals not only saw the need to allow us to hold appropriate parties in which other schools could be invited, we were also allowed to honour the invitations of other schools to their parties. There was the annual festival of arts and culture introduced into the school in 1966 in which students were involved in competitions to showcase cultures and traditions from the various parts of Nigeria


As the saying goes ‘the lives of greatmen teach us how to make our own lives sublime ‘. The element of greatness we saw in the activities of some us when we were in school  helped many of us to think of being great or being heroes. And so I am not surprised that in virtually all the noble areas of human endeavours in Nigeria today the presence of the mountaineers (As Ibadan Grammar School Students are called) could be felt. I have earlier mentioned the two Ibru brothers. There is also Mike Adenuga, the chairman of Globacom. Very early in the life of this democracy late Bola Ige exchanged baton with Segun Agagu in the ministry of power as one minister handing over to another. They were both from Ibadan Grammar School. A similar scenario almost played out recently even among female old students. Although Inumidun Akande did not go to Ibadan Grammar School but her husband chief Bayo Akande  a prominent Ibadan chief did. She however handed over as chief judge to Ayo Philips in Lagos state. Ayo Philips herself is married to an old student of the school. The intellectual muscles our old girls are endowed with is highly visible in the judiciary as the current female chief judge of oyo state Teju Adeniji is also an ex-student of Ibadan Grammar school as well as Olateru-olagbegi before them an old student was also a female chief judge of ondo state. Dimeji Lawal from Ibadan Grammar School was there in the team of the golden eaglets that won the maiden edition of the junior world cup. It is personally a thing of pride and joy to me to know that the symbol of the Nigerian nation and our unity the Nigerian flag was designed by Pa Akinkunmi who is also an old student of Ibadan Grammar School. The list is endless but rather than make us cocky  the heights we are reaching continue to remind us of the sense of humility that was part of our training that without God man is nothing and we must continue to thank God for the opportunity He gave us through Ibadan Grammar school to serve humanity at positions of responsibility As we look forward to the next one hundred years we pray that the school will continue to grow from strength to strength and that its product will never be found wanting. We thank God Almighty for everything as we Mountaineers congratulate ourselves on this august occasion Deo et PATRIAE! up school!!.

Ayo-Vaughan is the Ibadan Grammar School(IGS)

Class 65-71 set Chairman, (IGS) Centenary

TO God be the glory. I am alive to see this once in a lifetime event. I have no doubt in my mind that this expression captures the feelings of most of us who are privileged to see the Ibadan Grammar School Centenary, the Centenary of our great alma mater, one in the league of the 10 oldest secondary schools in Nigeria and certainly the oldest in Oyo State of Nigeria.

Most of us cannot help but feel that indeed it is an august event to be cherished in the gamut of our existence. Most of our cherished members who had been part of the Ibadan Grammar School family would have loved to see this day. But sadly enough, it could not be so. One of such prominent one among them was the great Alex Ibru the founder and chairman of The Guardian newspaper. For those of us who are privileged to see it, happily for us including Goodie Ibru, the highly esteemed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of our alma mater, one could imagine the sense of fulfillment that must attend the experience. It is like witnessing the turn of a new century or more importantly, the turn of a new millennium that happened in the lives of many of us just over a decade ago.

We can also liken it to the cycle of the Halley’s comet, which comes once in every 76 years and which most people can hardly see twice. To our members who are no longer with us today to celebrate this august event, we thank God for their lives. In humility and solemnity, we carry their memories with us. They will always be with us in spirit as they continue to remain perpetually with their maker.

It was the very first secondary school in Oyo state. The laying of its foundation was on the 31st of March 1913. (the significance of this day for us today as a Christian Anglican-based school is that it falls on Easter Sunday). The British Empire undoubtedly was the most influential sovereign in the world at the time with its tentacles heavily present in what was then southern Nigeria where Ibadan, the capital of what today is known as Oyo state was located. The British Empire with its enormous influence around the world claimed to champion the cause of civilization. As controversial as the claim may be, this influence was adequately represented on the day Ibadan Grammar School was established. The representative of the British Monarch resident in Ibadan was there. Civilization is about culture, finesse and civility. These qualities of civilization constitute the universal fabric of a true society. Since inception the calibre of people Ibadan Grammar School had churned out symbolized culture, finesse and civility that conformed with universal best practices. We are not saying that we are saints. Like every other human beings, we may have flaws that may be detected by those whose specialization is to find weaknesses in their fellow human beings. What I am saying is that it could be said with authority, pride and with out apologies that Ibadan Grammar School’s products in the last one hundred years have been in the forefront among those who had shaped the destiny of the Nigerian nation to date.

We are using this medium too, to salute the heroic efforts of other institutions in what they might have done in their different ways to contribute to the making of Nigeria and I say more power to their elbow and God bless them all. However these institutions may just have to give it to us that this is our year, a significant year, our centenary year. It is to be believed that some institutions must have sprung up during these last one hundred years but along the line had gone back into oblivion. After one hundred years Ibadan Grammar School is still growing and moving from strength to strength. Its roots are firmly fastened to the ground. Its stem, robustly sturdy.

The universal fabric of Ibadan Grammar School at its inception could be said to have influenced its cosmopolitan disposition as it was developing to take its position in the comity of worthy institutions. From the way the school continued to evolve into its mission it was clear that the visionaries behind the development of the school had and understood the world view of education. They knew that education  in the best tradition of the word must be broad based. It must not only include the academic and the intellectual, the moral and the spiritual, as well as the physical, above all, it must never be parochial in such a negative way that must affect peaceful co-existence and the brotherhood of man.

In this respect Ibadan Grammar School which could be regarded as the brain child of the Anglican Christian communion spear headed by the late Bishop Alexander Babatunde Akinyele never discriminated in its admission policy. Although as a student of the school you were expected to participate in the  Christian religious ceremonies of the school. The truth of the matter however is that it does not translate into any attempt to convert anybody into Christianity. The compulsory participation of every student was to fulfill all righteousness. Nobody was ever compelled to change religion. In this sense, many Muslims, animists and probably atheists passed through the wall of Ibadan Grammar School safely with their beliefs if they were still interested in them. The unwritten principle of the school no doubt is that by the time you leave Ibadan Grammar School, if indeed you are a Mountaineer as the Ibadan Grammarian is typically known, you will carry out of that school in your character, the stamp of culture, finesse and civility. To our mentors, that is good enough to show case you as a child of God even if you don’t call yourself a Christian. Christianity in its true concept should be nothing more than that.

Ibadan Grammar School as I said from inception seemed strongly to have a world view of education. Students are not only admitted from across Nigeria dating back to almost eighty years as far as my research could carry me, they also come from neighbouring countries. In my own time in the school two white Britons were actually part of the student body. The beautiful experience that formed my lot from this cosmopolitan nature of Ibadan Grammar School and which many of my compatriots shared through their own experiences too, is that if the world sincerely allows it, it is certain that people from diverse backgrounds could live in brotherliness, peace and harmony.

As it is typical among human beings there were fights among students in my own time as you would also get among brothers and sisters. Indeed that was the nature of these occasional fights among the students of Ibadan Grammar School. It was in the nature of what you get among siblings because we were indoctrinated well into an orientation that saw us as brothers and sisters. I could never recall an occasion when there were fights among students and it was attributed to ethnic differences or religious misunderstanding as it could also be. I am of the Yoruba stock. I had many seniors in the school from the other ethnic groups. If you offended them, they would ‘deal’ with you and you might sweat. But it just never crossed my mind that somebody from a ‘foreign’ land had come to ‘deal’ with me on my own soil. The climate of orientation in our school was that rather than see the incident from such a parochial perspective the senior would rather  remind you of what some of your older siblings or elders at home do to you  when you misbehave. That exactly was the perspective from which you perceived him too – another brother or sister as the case may be. Albeit an extended one.

We have to give a lot of kudos to our mentors in this respect. They laboured very well to mortify the embers of prejudice and discriminations. Ibadan Grammar School was one school where you have children of prominent politicians from diverse colourations and while their fathers were fighting each other bitterly on the political terrain, their children in Ibadan Grammar School would be playing among themselves beautifully. In this significant respect I have to single out Papa Alayande .


Today by the grace of God in this significant centenary year, that same ‘boy’ sits eminently as the national president of the Ibadan Grammar School old students’ association. Papa Alayande did not stage manage it. He had long been dead before it happened. God indeed moves in mysterious ways. He surely has a foot in our almamater. The motto of our school is Deo et patriae meaning ‘for God and our father land’. The school indeed is for Him and our entire fatherland.


During Papa Alayande’s time, the sporting life of Ibadan Grammar School was very vibrant to the point where the products of the school were a force to reckon with even up to the national level. Whatever were needed by us to make us stay formidable were never denied us. In my own time we did not win the vital football cup but we could boast of the fact that Tesilimi ‘thunder’ Balogun was our footballcoach. That was a prolific footballer of his day who has a prominent stadium named after him today in Lagos. Although we might not have won any vital football competition in my time it was during the time of thunder Balogun as the school’s football coach 1968/69 school year that Felix Adedeji popularly known as ‘thundi’ the school’s football prefect  in 1969 came into limelight. He was not only adjudged the best school boy football player in Nigeria, at that point in time he was already playing for a top first division team based in Western Nigeria. One of our expatriate American tutors Mr. Johnson was instrumental in the virile development of the basketball in our school such that not long afterwards in 1967, we won the national championship. Ibadan Grammar School was a leading school in lawn tennis in my time as the coach of the school was the Nigerian champion and the international star of the time, Thompson Onibokun. It was a time when Tunde Oremule from Ibadan Grammar School was a shining lawn tennis star at the national level.  The school’s table tennis prowess was such that we produced quite a number of national champions. Two of them Babatunde Obisanya, went on to become the national table tennis coach and Brigadier General  Jide Adebiyi(rtd) went on to become the first Director  General of sports of the Nigerian armed forces. Boxing as a sport thrived very well in my days at Ibadan Grammar School.


Our social life was an admixture of the modern and the traditional. ‘All work and no play’ as they say ‘makes jack a dull boy’. In this respect our principals not only saw the need to allow us to hold appropriate parties in which other schools could be invited, we were also allowed to honour the invitations of other schools to their parties. There was the annual festival of arts and culture introduced into the school in 1966 in which students were involved in competitions to showcase cultures and traditions from the various parts of Nigeria


As the saying goes ‘the lives of greatmen teach us how to make our own lives sublime ‘. The element of greatness we saw in the activities of some us when we were in school  helped many of us to think of being great or being heroes. And so I am not surprised that in virtually all the noble areas of human endeavours in Nigeria today the presence of the mountaineers (As Ibadan Grammar School Students are called) could be felt. I have earlier mentioned the two Ibru brothers. There is also Mike Adenuga, the chairman of Globacom. Very early in the life of this democracy late Bola Ige exchanged baton with Segun Agagu in the ministry of power as one minister handing over to another. They were both from Ibadan Grammar School. A similar scenario almost played out recently even among female old students. Although Inumidun Akande did not go to Ibadan Grammar School but her husband chief Bayo Akande  a prominent Ibadan chief did. She however handed over as chief judge to Ayo Philips in Lagos state. Ayo Philips herself is married to an old student of the school. The intellectual muscles our old girls are endowed with is highly visible in the judiciary as the current female chief judge of oyo state Teju Adeniji is also an ex-student of Ibadan Grammar school as well as Olateru-olagbegi before them an old student was also a female chief judge of ondo state. Dimeji Lawal from Ibadan Grammar School was there in the team of the golden eaglets that won the maiden edition of the junior world cup. It is personally a thing of pride and joy to me to know that the symbol of the Nigerian nation and our unity the Nigerian flag was designed by Pa Akinkunmi who is also an old student of Ibadan Grammar School. The list is endless but rather than make us cocky  the heights we are reaching continue to remind us of the sense of humility that was part of our training that without God man is nothing and we must continue to thank God for the opportunity He gave us through Ibadan Grammar school to serve humanity at positions of responsibility As we look forward to the next one hundred years we pray that the school will continue to grow from strength to strength and that its product will never be found wanting. We thank God Almighty for everything as we Mountaineers congratulate ourselves on this august occasion Deo et PATRIAE! up school!!.

Ayo-Vaughan is the Ibadan Grammar School(IGS)

Class 65-71 set Chairman, (IGS) Centenary

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THE NSCDC OFFICER CHANNELS TV INTERVIEW VIDEO being circulated in the media refers.

We sincerely feel the show was deliberately designed and hatched to destroy than to build.

Rather than assist their guest to inform their viewing public that the website of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps is nscdc.gov.ng, the Channels crew wasted quality time to dwell on exposing their guest as ignorant of the website address which I believe have been visited by the Channels crew themselves before the program. It was obvious that the guest needed help with the website address yet the Channels crew failed to manage the program professionally and assist their guest.

They chose to bash the image of the NSCDC officer who apparently believes more in action on the field than gazing into a computer monitor. The inability of the officer to recite the website address on a TV program should not be used to judge the NSCDC whose positive impact on public security has been on the increase lately. I urge the NSCDC not to do its job or blow its trumpet in or rely on the media which can be destructive. Rather, let NSCDC action continue to speak louder than the Media and let the PR officers do their work of reporting the achievements, Thanks.

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2] You are explaining something to your friends and they are looking at another direction.

3] You want to kiss your girlfriend and she will tell you "I don't like kissing"

4] You want to whisper to your friend's ear and he starts begging you that he already knew what you wanted to say.

5] You try to sing for a little baby and he/she starts crying.

6] Pastor prays for everybody in the church and when it gets to your turn, he instructs you not to say amen

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Ibadan Grammar School started its journey as a
leading Christian secondary school providing light in
the darkness of heathenism and underdevelopment
on 31st March, 1913 with twelve foundation students
in a mud-built storey building owned by Mr. Samson
Oke and located at what was then Apampa Road at
Alekuso, near Bere Square, Ibadan. Right from the
beginning, provision was made for the growth of the
school with the donation of a 5-acre piece of land by
Balogun Shittu, the Are of Ibadan, near his personal
residence, at Oke Are.
Established as a Christian School in the best
tradition of the Anglican Church, the Founder and
first Principal of the school was Bishop (then Revd.)
A. B Akinyele, a visionary clergyman who
championed the cause of education, making great
personal sacrifices, when western education was
considered strange and unprofitable by the people. In
the words of the Late Bishop S. O. Odutola, one-time
Diocesan Bishop of Ibadan, Bishop A. B. Akinyele “in
spite of all persecutions, both within and without,
amidst teeming population of illiterate peasants,
founded the School single-handedly and made
supreme sacrifices before achieving his main
objective.” Bishop Akinyele’s exemplary work is
acknowledged throughout Nigeria and, indeed, the
African continent. Despite the fact that Revd.
Akinyele was the only graduate on staff, and had but
one or two assistants, the population of students
grew from a modest 12 in March, 1913 to 68 within a
period of three years. With the increase in student
population, the storey building at Alekuso became
inadequate and the school moved into new buildings
(provided through generous donations by
individuals) at Oke Are in 1917 with major
restructuring into Infant, Primary and Secondary
sections. Student population had risen to 79,
including eight students in the boarding house, and
the number of teachers to five.
It is noteworthy that up to this point in the history of
the school, the school relied exclusively on good-
spirited individuals for its development (the highest
donation at the foundation stone laying ceremony at
Oke Are was by Baale Irefin who donated £100), with
the Principal and staff making great sacrifices and
earning paltry salaries ranging from £80 per annum
for the Principal to £48 for Senior Tutor, £21 for
Junior Tutor and £12 each for the two pupil teachers.
It was not until 1919 that the school received its first
financial assistance from government with a grant of
£46. The school continued to make very good
progress under Revd. Akinyele with the
strengthening of the secondary section. The school
first presented candidates for the preliminary
Cambridge School Certificate by 1925 and the Junior
Cambridge in 1928. By the time Revd. Akinyele left
office as Principal in 1933, following his elevation to
the post of Assistant Bishop of Lagos Diocese, the
number of students had increased to 187,
comprising 82 students in the primary section and
105 in the secondary section.
Revd. E. L. Latunde succeeded Bishop Akinyele as
Principal and during his tenure (1933-1940) the four
houses of the school, Irefin, Olubadan, Olubi and
Akinyele, were established and the school became a
member of the AIONIAN Group of Schools. It was
during the time of Revd. E. A. Odusanwo, who
succeeded Revd. Latunde as Principal, that the school
completely excised the elementary section of the
school and, by 1942, it had become solely a
secondary grammar school. By 1948, student
population had increased astronomically to about
350, and the Oke Are site had been stretched to the
limit, necessitating another movement of the school.
It was under the legendary Archdeacon (then Revd.)
E. O. Alayande, who succeeded Revd. Odusanwo in
1948, that the school moved into new buildings on a
58-acre piece of land at its present site at Molete on
5th March, 1951. The school witnessed
unprecedented development during the tenure
(1948-1968) of Archdeacon Alayande as Principal
becoming one of the best secondary schools in
Nigeria with arguably the best Higher School
Certificate (HSC) programme in the country that
attracted students from far and wide. There were
remarkable developments not only in physical
infrastructure with the construction of new science
laboratories, a library, classrooms, an administration
block, dormitories, staff houses, sports field and a
school chapel, but also in academics with the
introduction of new academic programmes including
the HSC in 1956. The school provided quality
education in the arts and the sciences with standard
facilities including well-equipped laboratories and an
environment conducive to teaching and learning. The
school was international in outlook attracting
students and staff from all over the world. About 80
% of the student population of about 550 lived in the
boarding house with students of diverse social
background, from all parts of Nigeria and from
abroad, providing a rich cultural diversity that made
the Ibadan Grammar School experience unique.
Quality of staff was extremely high (several of the
teachers were well-trained expatriates from the UK,
USA, Canada, the Netherlands, India, South Africa,
Sierra Leone and the West Indies) and, with a few
exceptions, all the teachers (about 30) were
graduates. The school was renowned not only for its
academic excellence, but for its extra-curricular
activities, particularly sports, including athletics,
football, lawn tennis and table tennis. Students of
Ibadan Grammar School represented the country in
international competitions such as the first All
African Games in Brazzaville, Congo in 1965 where
the late Dr. Sesan Onafowokan represented Nigeria in
the high jump.
Archdeacon Alayande was succeeded in 1968 by
Chief Ayo Labiyi, the first old student of Ibadan
Grammar School to become the Principal of the
school. Even though girls were admitted into the HSC
and the remedial science programme for students
from other schools with a weak science background
in the Alayande days, it was not until 1969 that the
school became a full-fledged mixed secondary school
for boys and girls. In 1970, under the leadership of
Chief Ayo Labiyi, a 10-year development plan was
proposed and the Ibadan Grammar School Old
Students’ Association with the Late Chief ‘Bola Ige as
President, launched the £100,000 Bishop Akinyele
Memorial Fund for the development of the school
including the construction of a new Assembly Hall,
girls’ hostel and boys’ hostel. In the words of Chief
‘Bola Ige, the old students of Ibadan Grammar School
have a goodly heritage and must continue to build on
the foundation laid by Bishop A. B. Akinyele: “a
Christian school with an open door policy; an Ibadan
school with a cosmopolitan population; a grammar
school that is strong not only in the Arts and
Sciences, but also in the athletic world; a town school
that looks after the needs of pupils from rural areas.”
Regrettably, despite all the good intentions, the lofty
objectives of the 1970 school development project
were not achieved and the school witnessed
progressive decline since then in infrastructure,
teaching and learning environment, quality of staff
and students, academic performance, sports and
other extra-curricular activities. The takeover of
schools by government and the resultant problems of
poor funding, uncontrolled increase in student
enrolment leading to a student population explosion,
without investment in additional facilities, and
retrogressive government policies inimical to the
delivery of quality education further compounded the
woes of the school.
1. Based in part on information from “A short History
of Ibadan Grammar School” by Prof. Akin Mabogunje
and other sources
The Present State of the School
One hundred years after its founding, Ibadan
Grammar School which in the words of the Late
Archdeacon (then Rev. Canon) E. O. Alayande in
1970 “stands today as the great pride of this great
city (Ibadan) and whose alumni have adorned the
highest positions in all walks of our national life”, has
so degenerated in terms of physical infrastructure,
academics, sports and other extra-curricular
activities that it is no longer rated among the best
schools in Ibadan, let alone in the nation at large.
Gone are the days of straight As in the West African
School Certificate examinations and laurels in
football and athletics. The school has become a
shadow of itself with decaying buildings and other
physical infrastructure, poor quality staff and
students, and an environment that stifles teaching
and learning. Gone are the boarding facilities and the
rich diversity in staff and students with the school
degenerating from a truly international secondary
grammar school that attracted staff and students
from all over the country and from outside the shores
of Nigeria to a mediocre, local high school that is not
even the school of first choice for well-placed Ibadan
indigenes. Part of the 2011 report on the school by
Mr. Femi Adekunle, the Principal of Senior School 1 is reproduced below:
Ibadan Grammar School consists of five unit schools,three of which are Junior Secondary schools, and the other two, Senior Secondary schools. Each of the schools has its own administrative structure and is being regarded as an independent school by the supervising Ministry of Education.
From the Principal’s report, there are at present
3551 students in Ibadan Grammar School using
poorly maintained facilities that are over 50 years old meant for less than 600 students in the 1960s.
Indeed, some of these facilities have become so run
down as to make them virtually unusable. There is no Biology laboratory anymore and a classroom is being used as a Food and Nutrition laboratory. There is a two-room library used jointly by the students (3551) of all the schools. The only existing functional toilet for 3551 students is a 12-room facility built by the old students in 2011; before then there were no toilets. There is an on-going N100 million project by the then Education Trust Fund (ETF) involving renovation of hostels and construction of three new blocks of classrooms which if properly executed would improve the state of physical infrastructure in the school.

The Contributions Of Old Students To School
Development

The Ibadan Grammar School Old Students’
Association has, over several decades, contributed
substantially and in diverse ways to the development of Ibadan Grammar School. The most noticeable major physical infrastructural project to have been undertaken in the school in the last 40 years is the multi-million naira Emmanuel Alayande Hall by the old students of Ibadan Grammar School. Other physical infrastructure running into millions of naira that the old students have provided for the school include classrooms, toilets, sporting facilities and water supply. Just recently, the school hosted the 72nd AIONIAN Festival of Sports and Academics
Competitions, tagged Ibadan 2011, featuring 12
secondary schools from all the states of the South
West on 24-27 March, 2011. Despite repeated
entreaties made to the Oyo State Government, no
financial grant or any other form of support was
received by the school and the old students bore
majorly the huge cost of hosting the festival and
provided among other forms of support the following:
1)New sports field, complete with football pitch and
athletics tracks
2)12-room modern toilet facility, complete with deep well and overhead storage tank
3)Modern lawn tennis court
4)Handball pitch
5)Sporting equipment
6)Water supply facilities
7)Renovated classrooms.
The old students have also contributed to the
intellectual development of students including the
employment of teachers, donation of computers and scientific equipment and the endowment of prizes and scholarships. The Annual Founder’s Day Reunion including Thanksgiving Service, the traditional laying of wreaths and reception promote interaction between the old students, the teachers and the present students and facilitate the propagation of the values and ideals of the school ensuring that succeeding generations of students imbibe the Christian values and traditions of the school.
In 2007, the Ibadan Grammar School Old Students’
Association instituted the Venerable Emmanuel
Alayande Memorial Lectures to immortalize the
former teacher and Principal of the school. The
objectives of the Alayande Memorial Lectures are to
celebrate the life and times of Venerable Emmanuel
Alayande, promote national discourse on issues of
education, politics and national development, and
propagate Venerable Emmanuel Alayande’s values,
beliefs, attitudes and ideals with a view to impacting
the lives of succeeding generations in selfless service
to God and Fatherland (Deo et Patriae). The first
lecture entitled “Schooling, Education and the Social
Order in Nigeria was delivered by Prof. Akin L.
Mabogunje, a most distinguished old student, on
31st March 2008 and the second lecture will be
delivered by another most distinguished old student
and immediate past Head of the Civil Service of the
Federation, Prof. Oladapo Afolabi, on 29th March
2012.
By March 31st 2013,Ibadan Grammar School will attain the height of 100years of existence..... Come join us and celebrate with the most prestigious secondary school in Nigeria because 100years is quite an age..... Up Grammarian.

I G S Alumni who have made names for themselves includes:
Professor Akin Mabogunje
Professor Oladapo Afolabi, who is the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation.
The current Professor of Agriculture, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OSU), Professor Siji Adeokun.  Mr Goodie Ibru 
Mike Adenuga jnr
Senator Femi Lanlehin
late Chief Bola Ige
Papa Emmanuel Alayande

It was reported few weeks ago that
the Association of Nigerian
Prostitutes (ANP) the national
umbrella body of commercial sex
workers, vowed to declare one week
free sex if only the Super Eagles
could return home with the African
Cup of Nations trophy.
Report also had it that the
association sent over 113 members
to South Africa to cheer the Eagles
to victory in the final cracker against
the Stallions of Burkina Faso, which
Nigeria won by a lone goal.
But it has been gathered that shortly
after the victory, one of the leaders
approached a top member of the
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)
who was in South Africa to watch the
match about their promise but was
chased away by the official.
“He chased me and asked me to go
to hell,” the lady hinted.
When asked if the promise was just
for the Eagles or the entire country,
the visibly angry lady replied: “Either
for the Eagles or the country, he
doesn’t have any right to tell me to
go to hell. We are human beings. We
will send in our press statement
shortly,” she added.
A statement made available to us on
Sunday and signed by the General
Secretary, Jessica Elvis, read in part.
“The Association of Nigerian
Prostitutes (ANP) wishes to
congratulate the Super Eagles and
indeed the entire nation on the
successful outing of our senior
national team in the just-concluded
Africa Cup of Nations, South Africa
2013. We are happy just like every
other Nigerian.
“Shortly after the victory, one of our
leaders met a top member of the
Glass House in South Africa and
informed him of our planned ‘free
booze’ for the Eagles when they
return to the country, but he
outrightly rejected our offer. He told
us to ‘got to hell and get a life’ that
the Eagles played with passion and
not because of our ‘stupid’ promise.
“We want to register our
disappointment at the way we were
turned down after our full support for
the national team.
“We shall continue to offer our
support even as they prepare to face
the world next year in Brazil,” the
statement added.

Source : www.soccerstarng.mobi/story_display_page.php?cover_story_id=585

This is the story of a young boy whose parents
were murdered during 2002 riots in Kaduna.
He was aged 11 years at the time. His parents, Mr
Austin and Mrs Josephine Moses, were missionaries
until they met their untimely death. The boy left his
house to play football but returned home to see that
all his parents had laboured for had been razed down
and he would never see his mother and father again.
He was taken to London by his uncle almost
immediately after the incident. While in London, he
began deploying his football skills.
Though his parents were murdered, his passion for
football was never killed. He played football for his
school and later for a local League club until
Crystal Palace FC approached him. From that point,
his career progressed in leaps and bounds.
This player played for England’s under 16, 17, 19 and
21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals
for England during this period. He later moved to
Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea.
This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.
His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also
share his courage. He had a choice not to step into
Nigeria again but he didn’t take that option. When
the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped
England and embraced Nigeria…That is patriotism!
Today, we see a Victor Moses bringing joy to every
Nigerian including those who may have inspired his
parent’s death…That is Love!
On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National
Anthem and pledge allegiance to a country that
couldn’t defend his parents…That is faith!
Moses would deliver the “African Cup of Nations”
trophy to Nigeria not minding what had happened in
the past… That is forgiveness! Moses rose through
bitterness and despair to the limelight of hope and
courage.
He never gave up on his country. He persevered…
That is purpose!
If someone like Victor Moses, despite the bitter past,
never gave up on Nigeria, then why should we….!
ONE NIGERIA

Nairaland is one of the most popular site where you can read day to day news and many edutainment events about nigeria and beyond. It is also an interactive site where naija's from far and near can share their views, yet we have some people that all what they are there to do is to write "1st to comment" "2nd to comment" etc even at the expense of an important article which need urgent and serious views of people. Before it use to be funny whenever I see such things but these days its not getting funny again. I remember the gar*i people stated like this and to God be the glory, we don't see that again.... Do u think this 1st to comment people should be banned also or its part of the fun of this site?

N B I won't be surprise to see someone still writing 1st to comment on this Topic, yeye people

Afcon 13 v 1 - 9,

1 And on that day when d Super Eagles had gathered in d burning bush against d Ethiopians of d eastern Desert, Keshi, d leader of the delegates gave directions to d people, but they listened not.

2 And Keshi knowing wt awaited him at Abuja knelt down in his heart and cried unto d heaven saying "My God, my God, please do not forsake me, give me only one chance."

3 As soon as he spoke those words, d Lord heard his cry, n the Holy Spirit descended on d burning bush in the south of Africa where d men had gathered and said to Moses the Son of VICTOR (Nwa-OLUWA), "Moses, go yea forth into the 18 yard box of the Ethiopians."

4 And Moses hearkened unto the voice of the lord and ran into d 18 yard box of the Ethiopians. and behold, a defender of d Ethiopian Army brought him down n caused a penalty.

5. And wen this had happened, Keshi knew dt the lord had heard his prayers and used Moses 2 cause a big scare 4 d Ethiopians. So he beckoned unto Moses 2 open his ears 2 d voice of d spirit n hid d commandments of d lord.

6 And the spirit came unto Moses again, saying "Moses, play ye the ball into d left corner of the Ethiopian net. And when Moses had done this, the Eagles recorded their first goal.

7 And the spirit drove Moses into the 18 yard box again n caused another great scare in d defense of d Ethiopians which made d keeper of the Ethiopian army attack him unwisely and got a red card.

8 When this had happened, the people could see the hand of God on Moses. And Keshi knowing d way of the spirit, said unto Moses "because d lord had used u 2 deliver d people of Nigeria out of d hands of d deadly Ethiopians, u sha go forth again n take d penalty.

9 Thus, as the lord would have it, Moses brought down d Armies of d Ethiopians by placing d ball beyond d reach of d make-shift goal keeper who d Ethiopians had brought against him. May the Lord bless the reading& cause d Eagles to triumph over d Elephant of IVORY COAST!

Ever since have been a nairalander I have never commented or created a topic but yesterday I was with my room mates both of whom are a white garment church members cherubim and seraphim(C and S) and the other one a celestial. Suddenly, an argument broke up between them about which church is the best amongst the white garments churches? I was actually asked this question in our room but I couldn't really give them an appropriate answer because I am a novice.
I believe this two churches which was founded by Moses Orimolade and Papa Oschoffa are spiritual churches sent from God and that though there have been many negatives things we heard from these so called white garments churches I don't know which one is the best. While my Cele friend was arguing that his church is okay to worship the cherubim friend said people are more afraid of celestial, that was why I deemed it fit to ask u guys on nairaland. The white garments churches what are your thoughts on them?