Engineer Shok Julius
Whitesands Parent
Our People
Our People.
Three protagonists. One educational project.
The first educators
Parents are not customers. They are colleagues.
The conviction that founded Whitesands was that parents are the first and primary educators of their children. The school exists to extend that work, not to replace it.
In practice this means an ongoing conversation. Parents meet with their son’s mentor twice a term. They are invited to monthly formation sessions on the topics the boys are studying in their personal formation. They sit on committees that shape the life of the school.
Whitesands parents tend to know one another. The community is deliberate. Friendships formed in the school car park last decades.
The school genuinely treats parents as the first educators of our children. That partnership is what makes Whitesands different.
Whitesands Parents
In their own words
Families on the partnership.
Mr. & Mrs. Afuba
Whitesands Parents
Andrew Eze
Parents as the First Educators
The educators
One hundred staff. Every one of them an educator.
The men who teach at Whitesands are chosen for character as much as for credentials. A teacher who lives what he teaches is the most important resource the school has.
Chukwuemeka Enemuoh
Principal
Uchenna Ezugwu
Director of Studies
Andrew Eze
Director of Formation
Frederick Nwaizu
Director of Administration
Kinsley-David Adaigbe
HR Manager
John Williams
Assistant Director of Studies
Chidozie Ahumibe
Member of Faculty
Olaoluwa Alo
Member of Faculty
Solomon Aluma
Head, Sports Department
Stephen Abiola
Member of Faculty
Olalekan Adeleke
Member of Faculty
Sunday Adeyoju
Driver
Chikaodi Agwu
Member of Faculty
Vincent Ahon
Member of Faculty
Samuel Ajao
Laboratory Assistant
Solomon Ajiboye
Member of Faculty
Alphonse Allagbe
Member of Faculty
Paul Ameh
Accountant
Godwin Asuquo
Member of Faculty
Adedire Babalola
Member of Faculty
Temitope Banjo
Member of Faculty
Bayo Olaore
Member of Faculty
Sunday Boye
Member of Faculty
Anthony Chukwurah
Member of Faculty
Etim Udemeobong Edem
Member of Faculty
Etukudo Sunday
Maintenance
Ebo Romanus Obinna
Member of Faculty
Edomwonyi Oscar Odiase
Accountant
Emore Benjamin Akpobome
Member of Faculty
Enuodu Joseph Ikechukwu
Librarian
Epuechi Michael Ifechukwu
Member of Faculty
Ganiyu Isiak Ibukun
Maintenance
Gerald Momoh
Member of Faculty
Ganiyu Olufemi Waheed
Member of Faculty
Gege Oriloye
Member of Faculty
George Ekereobong
Laboratory Assistant
Ibe Stanislaus Kaosisochukwu
HR Assistant
Imharedon Hope
Maintenance
Ijeh Michael
Guidance & Counsellor
Iyamu Olumuyiwa
Member of Faculty
Jackson Michael
Maintenance
Jackson Paul
Maintenance
James Eboseme Matomi
Member of Faculty
Jimmy Ini
Maintenance
Julius Okolo
Member of Faculty
Josiah Barry
Member of Faculty
Koledoye Oluwafemi
Member of Faculty
Lanre-Alimi Matthew
Member of Faculty
Njoku Simon Ifeanyichukwu
Member of Faculty
Nkanta Joseph Akaninyene
IT Technician
Nkanta Oku Philip
Procurement
Nosiru Olanrewaju
Member of Faculty
Nwachukwu Princewill Kelech
Member of Faculty
Nyam Simeon
Member of Faculty
Oboh Thomas
Maintenance
Ojukwu Ikechukwu
Alumni/Admissions Coordinator
Okonkwo Roland
Sports Coach
Oyinloye Olanrewaju
Member of Faculty
Obiji Kingsley Onyekachi
Member of Faculty
Ochibili Peter Chukwuma
Member of Faculty
Ogbobe Ikechuwu Augustine
Member of Faculty
Ogunbanwo Adeleke
Member of Faculty
Ogwu Oliver
HR
Ojeleye Adeyemi
Member of Faculty
Okafor Innocent
Member of Faculty
Okoh Omhonriawo Kelvin
Member of Faculty
Okoh Valentine
Digital Specialist
Oloworaran Adebayo
Member of Faculty
Olukole Niyi
Member of Faculty
Omotosho Matthew
Member of Faculty
Onah Emmanuel Okita
Detention Officer
Onaho Amos
Admissions
Onibon John Olanrewaju
Member of Faculty
Onoja Michael
Maintenance
Osigwe Alban Chidozie
Member of Faculty
Philip Moore
Driver
Tokode Joshua Omoniyi
Member of Faculty
Ude Vincent Akonam
Member of Faculty
Udoh Gabriel
Maintenance
Udoh Okon Effiong
Maintenance
Udoma Augustine
Maintenance
Udoh Christopher Oto-Obong
Maintenance
Ugwu Kevin Ifesinachi
Facility Manager
Uka Chidera
Member of Faculty
Ukaegbu Gregory
Member of Faculty
Umoren Emmanuel
Maintenance
Uviohwo Japhet
Detention Officer
In their own words
From the staffroom.
“I have taught at three schools in my career, and Whitesands is singular. The culture of excellence is real — not performative. Students want to learn, and that makes teaching here a joy.”
Mr. Emmanuel Okwu
Head of English & Literature
“Teaching here for ten years has been the privilege of my professional life. The students push me to be better every single day. That energy is rare.”
Fr. Patrick Umeh
School Chaplain
The Whitesands boy
Diverse backgrounds. Unique talents. Boundless dreams.
The boys at Whitesands come from across Lagos and from across Nigeria. Some have been here since JS1. Some joined for senior school. Each carries the school in his own way.
They are quiet readers and they are loud captains. They are science prefects who play in the orchestra. They are sprinters who serve at the altar. The school is large enough to hold all of it and small enough to know each of them by name.
What they share is not a type. It is a formation. By the time they leave they have been mentored, challenged, prayed with and prayed for. They have been given things to carry and they have carried them.
1,000+ graduates and counting
Where they went. What they're doing.
Eighteen graduating classes have come through the gates of the school. More than one thousand alumni are now doctors, engineers, lawyers, founders, fathers and priests, in Lagos and across the world.
Over seventy percent of Whitesands boys continue their studies abroad. Many return to Nigeria after, to build careers and raise families. A growing number send their own sons back to the school that formed them.
1,000+Alumni
18Graduating Classes
70%Studied Abroad
25Years
In their own words
What the old boys say.
“Whitesands has been everything we hoped for as a Catholic school — academically serious, but also a community that takes the formation of our children personally.”
Mrs. Amos-Penda
Whitesands Parent
“Whitesands didn't just prepare me for university — it formed me as a person. The values I carry into my career were shaped right there in those classrooms and in that chapel.”
Dr. Nnamdi Eze
Cardiologist · Class of 2005
“I came into JS1 thinking I hated science. By JS3, I was building a water-filtration robot. Now I'm reading Engineering at the University of Lagos.”
Chukwudi Obi
Class of 2024
“I graduated twelve years ago and I still come back every year for the Carol Service. That tells you everything.”
Chidi Mensah
Architect · Class of 2014
Notable destinations
A handful of the universities our boys have attended.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Imperial College London
London, UK
London School of Economics
London, UK
MIT
Cambridge, MA
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Giving back
The Alumni Prizes — old boys, investing in new ones.
Every year, alumni sponsor prizes in Film, Coding, Visual Art, Music, Mathematics and Sports — awarded at the Speech and Prize-giving Ceremony. Free to enter, open to every Whitesands boy.
Explore the prizes→- 01Film
- 02Coding
- 03Visual Art
- 04Music
- 05Mathematics
- 06Sports