ICA 70TH ANNIVERSARY

ICA 70TH ANNIVERSARY

“IBADAN CITY ACADEMY OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

70TH ANNIVERSARY TAGGED “CITY ACADEMY DAY 2016”

HOLDS TODAY,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH 2016 AT THE SCHOOL HALL

The opening prayer said.

Recitation of the National Anthem and School Anthem.

The introduction of the Guests was so interesting: The Ex-students started introduction one by one: The name and the year of graduation. Beside me were Graduants of 1975, 1980 and 1982. I started laughing to see some Dad and Mum who were Ex-ICA like me.

The Association President in his keynote welcome address, he honourably welcomed all and sundry and charged everyone to duty i.e The need to rise and rescue our darling school from destruction.

In his opening remarks, the Chairman buttressed Mr President, he summoned everyone of us to digged into our purse and contribute our own quota to improve the school.

He further stressed that, the Late Timothy Olajide Oyesina, the founder of the Great Ibadan Boys High School, Oke-bola in 1938, Ibadan City Academy, Eleta, Ibadan in 1946 and 11 other schools need to be emulated by everyone of us.

The Late Oyesina had contributed both moral and financial efforts in promoting Nigeria Education where most of us are Beneficiaries and Living witnesses…….We have seen the greater numbers of Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Pharmacists, Permanent Secretaries, Engineers, Accountants and other Professionals attended one of the Thirteen {13} schools founded by the Late Oyesina.

And that if we are yet to build a school of our own, we should be able to ensure we rescue those existing schools, so that, the good works of our heroes past shall never be in vain.

The school Principal, Mr. Sayo Olugbade appreciate the efforts of the Old Students Association in resuscitating the school and he pledged his own support for the Old Students Association towards achieving their aims and objectives.

The motivational talk was handled by Chief {Mrs} B.I. Oluwasakin who was an Old student as well. As a Mother, she advised the present students to concentrate on their studies, abiding by the rules and regulations guiding the school, desisting from playing truancy and not keeping bad company, see all their teachers as their fathers and mothers, assisting their parents at home and see education as a major priority and the very best legacy one could have in life. She crowned it all that, the sky will be the starting point for their achievements in life if they could heed to her advise.

The school’s Cultural group came on stage to entertain the guests. The female were in Ofi, Iro, Ipele, Ileke, and Iyun, while the Male students handled the traditional band sets. It was a dancing of the century by those girls such that, each Ex-students couldn’t hide their joy and came out to sprayed them in New Naira Notes.

Next is the 70th Anniversary-Delebrat­ions. The Great Ibadan City Academy was founded in 1946 and the school had her first set in 1951. The Secretary of the Association, Mr. Adedoja Ekolo started calling each representative of every set to come out and make a pledge of what his or her set will do to rescue the school from the Mess and it all went thus:

1951 to 1940, no representatives.

1941 – Renovation of 4 classroom building.

1942 to 1974, they all promised to go back to their mates to see what they can do.

1975 – Construction of Borehole for the school.

1979 – Renovation of 4 classroom.

1980 – Provision of Chairs and Table for the students.

1981 – The man emphasised it that his set had concluded on the Renovation of 4 classroom building which will starts soon.

1982 – Fifty-two {52} sets of chairs and Tables were promised to bring to the school come next week, and the reminder 48 sets will later be presented to make it 100.

1983 – They happened to be the very Best Set having Renovated 17 water closet Toilets which has been in use by the Students and Staffs already. They had equally embarked on the Renovation of the 4 classroom building and also donated #20,000 to Old Students Bank Account.

1984 – Pledge to provide Security Guards for the school and Foot their Salary.

1986 – Donation of 200 Chairs and Tables for the school.

1989 – Building of 2 classroom and equipped it with 50 chairs and Tables.

1991 – A token of #5,000 was donated today and they promised to do more.

1992 to 1995 – They all promised to meet with their mates and see what they can do.

1996 – Chairs and Tables

1997 – “I let them realised how sad we are with the bad situation of the school and that we are working underground to see what we can do. I told them that, they should be expecting something of reasonable from us as soon as possible.

They twisted me to voice out on which project we wanted to embarked upon but I insisted on meeting you people first. Infact, the ovation was aloud as I was gently treated.

2001 – Two {2} set of furnitures

2003 – {1} Provision of the new school gate {2} Puchasing of English Textbooks for the JSS 1 to SS 3 students.

2004 – He promised to consult his mates and they will do something soon.

The Presidents respond happily and he prayed all our aims and objectives for the school will be materialized by the grace of God.

The vote of thanks by the Secretary, Mr Adedoja Ekolo

The closing prayer follow immediately.

Note: All the invited guests were entertained with light refreshment.