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The AGM is here again.

The 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Igbobi College Old Boys Association (ICOBA) will hold on Saturday September 17, 2016 at 2pm prompt.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

1. Opening Prayer

2. President’s Welcome Address

3. Secretariat Report

4. Treasurer/Auditor’s Report

5. Adoption and Consid...
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ICOBA INTRODUCES ONLINE PAYMENT PORTAL

ICOBA scores another first again.

In our drive to build a world class alumni, ICOBA has eased the process of payment of its members’ financial obligations to the association. Members can now pay their annual branch, set and individual dues and donations on this platform.

Just visit http://www.quickteller.com/icobainternational a...
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The Igbobi College Old Boys Association (ICOBA) has launched an initiative christened ICOBA Partnership Initiative (IPI) aimed at garnering suppo...
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Mr Demola Adewakun, a former member of the Executive Committee of ICOBA Europe, sadly lost his mother, Mrs Susan Olawamide Adewakun (nee Ige). She passed on peacefully on Thursday, May 5, 2016. She was aged 80 years.

Please show suipport for Demola and his family by attending the various planned events, of which the first is the Service of Songs to be held in London this afternoon.

The full Programme of Events is as follows:

Today (Saturday, J...
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The Board and Management of Igbobi College, Yaba will hold its annual Valedictory Service for the outgoing students of the college and also the school speech and Prize-giving day ceremonies on Sunday July 10 and Wednesday July 13, 2016 respectively.

The outgoing students will be inducted at a ceremony that will take place at the college chapel on Sunday July 10 while students that excelled at various academic levels will be recognized and rewarded at a colourful ...
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The ICOBA 1996 Set is set to mark its 20 years of leaving school. They have planned a series of activities to commemorate the occasion which is scheduled to hold from June 17-19, 2016 in the school premises at Igbobi College, Yaba.

According to Mr Damola Ogunojemite, the Chairman of the Anniversary Committee, in a letter written to the ICOBA Secretariat, the set will be having a Thanksgiving church service at the Cannon Parker Chapel on Sunday June 19, 2016 by 9 ...
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The Secretary General of ICOBA, Mr Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, has emerged as the new President of African Public Relations Association (APRA) at the end of ‪their conference h...
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Igbobi College was established by the Methodist and Anglican Churches in 1932, in the Yaba suburb of Lagos. It is one of the oldest colleges in Nigeria and is the alma mater of a number of well-known Nigerians such as Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Justice Taslim Olawale Elias, ProfessorJacob Ade Ajayi, ChiefOlu Falae, Chief Michael Ibru and Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila among others.

It is tempting to...
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THE IGBOBIAN HUMOUR
BY CHIMEZIE AGWU 1957 – 1961 SET
AN ANGRY CAR OWNER
 
A LAGOS gentleman bought his first car after working for 20 years in a ministry. Then one weekend, he went to a big-time party in his new car but by the time he left the party about mid-night, one side of the car had been completely smashed by an unknown driver, where he parked it and the motorist spent heavily to repair and put the vehicle back on the ro...
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JUNE 16

The exchange was heated, voices raised, bodies taut with undisguised emotion.
 
He said, she said, and so it went, back and forth.
 
Finally, the two sides quietened down.
 
The elders that had been invited to adjudicate on the matter before them now huddled together like mourners at a wake. 
 
Whispered arguments were also heard from among them.
 
That was...
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