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A house known for tenacity.
How it started
Lagos in the late 1990s had no school like this.
The Ikota Educational Foundation was set up by a group of Catholic parents in Lagos who wanted a school where the formation of their sons in the faith would be a serious enterprise, not a token assembly on Monday mornings.
They found a two-hectare plot of land in Lekki and acquired it in 1996, before the area became what it is today. At the time the road outside was untarred. The site sat quietly among palm trees, waiting.
The first building opened in 2000 and welcomed a pioneer cohort of seventy-five boys. The plan was deliberate. The school would grow slowly, one year group at a time, so the formation could not be diluted by speed.
Twenty-five years later, eighteen graduating classes have come through the gates. More than one thousand alumni are now doctors, engineers, lawyers, founders, fathers and priests, in Lagos and across the world. The conviction that founded the school has not changed.
