History of alvan ikoku college
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History of alvan ikoku college
Alvan Ikoku
Nigerian educationist, statesman and politician
Alvan Azinna Ikoku (August 1, 1900–November 18, 1971) was a Nigerian educationist, statesman, activist and politician.
Life
Born on August 1, 1900, in Amanagwu Arochukwu, in present-day Abia State, he was educated at Arochukwu Government Primary School from 1911 to 1914. From 1915 to 1920,[1] he attended Hope Waddell College, Calabar where he was a student under James Emmanuel Aggrey and was classmates with Akanu Ibiam and Eyo Eyo Esua.
In 1920, he received his first teaching appointment with the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and the Church of Scotland at Itigidi.
History of alvan ikoku college of education
Two years later, he became a senior tutor at St. Paul's Teachers' Training College, Awka, Anambra State. While teaching at Awka, Ikoku earned his University of London degree in Philosophy in 1928 through its external program.
In 1932, Ikoku established a Co-Educational Secondary School in West Africa: the Aggrey Memorial Secondary Sch