King's College, Lagos
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Location and history
King's College Lagos was founded in 1909 and is located in the heart of Lagos on Lagos Island between the Tafawa Balewa Square and the old Supreme court building.
It was modelled on an English public school and has produced many past, present and future leaders of Nigeria. The school admits male students only but there were some female HSC students before the establishment of Queen's College Lagos.
The school song emphasises the importance of honour, truth, teamwork, fairplay responsibility and service.
The School Badge
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School song
"Floreat Collegium" shall our motto be
Let us shout it boldly for her sons are we
Nurtured in her classrooms in our early youth
Where we learnt to cherish chivalry and truth
Learnt to pull together each one with the rest
Playing up and striving each to do his best
This shall be our watchword, "Always play the game." Sound the old school's praises trumpet forth her fame Though of many nations we will not forget That we all are brothers with a common debt Let us pay by giving as we forge ahead Service to our living. Honor to our dead.
This is what they teach us in the good old school Only by obedience may you learn to rule If you fail look closely seek the reason why You have power to conquer if you only try Others went before you and attained the light Where they wait to cheer you victors in the fight
This shall be our watchword, "Always play the game." Sound the old school's praises trumpet forth her fame Though of many nations we will not forget That we all are brothers with a common debt Let us pay by giving as we forge ahead Service to our living. Honor to our dead.
Present past and future form one mighty whole Shining forth emblazoned on one muster role When the call is sounded all must answer, "HERE!" Voice and bearing showing neither shame nor fear Pointing to our honor which untarnished stands Bright as when we took it from our founders' hands
This shall be our watchword, "Always play the game." Sound the old school's praises trumpet forth her fame Though of many nations we will not forget That we all are brothers with a common debt Let us pay by giving as we forge ahead Service to our living. Honor to our dead.
Quote by Lord Lugard in 1919 on government schools in the colony of Southern Nigeria
"Government Schools in Southern Nigeria.- King's College, Lagos,with a staff of three British masters, afforded the highest and most expensive education for the sons of leading natives, or for boys of marked ability who had obtained scholarships. Some of its pupils completed their education in England, and entered the professions of law and medicine.
It was not a boarding school. In the two boarding schools at Warri and Bonny, adult "apprentices" were associated with small boys, with bad results. They were under no indentures, and the Heads of Technical Departments found that their manual training had all to be begun afresh when they came to the workshops with power-driven machinery. The average attendance at these two schools in 1913 was 151 apprentices and 187 boys.
Three Moslem schools in the Colony, and 48 other elementary or primary schools under native instructors, where carpentry and agriculture, etc., were taught, completed the list of Government schools, with an average attendance of 4,200."