Secondary Education in Nigeria

Secondary Schools in Southern Nigeria With specific reference to Secondary Schools in Southern Nigeria, the ever growing proportion of children of school age that stormed available primary schools created an impression and great eagerness in the missionaries and the colonial government that there were suitable pupils for secondary education. The primary schools, therefore, developed upper standard is often with over ambitious programmes. In Lagos, the first Grammar schools was opened by the CMS in 1859. The United Prebyseterian Church at Calabar built in 1895 what today would be described as a multi-lateral institution, including a catechists seminary, teacher training college, grammar school and technical college "all-in-one" which later became Hope Waddell Institute. In 1896, On River Protectorate gave it an annual grant In 1900, the new Protectorate of Southern Nigeria continued this assistance. Attempts were made in 1SS3 by the colonial government to take over from the missions ail their secondary education establishments, leaving them only with primary education This attempt was resisted and in the end rejected, making the development of secondary education, a tripartite effort by colonial government and private organizations or individuals in the southern part.