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The Old Boys' Association was established early enough to play a crucial role during the Golden
Jubilee celebrations of the school held in 1928. The first student on the list at take off of the school, the Senior Foundation Scholar, George Stone Smith, who later became Dr. Orishadipe Obasa, served as
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The school has four houses into which the entire students' population is distributed randomly for the purpose of annual inter-house competition. The houses are
Didsbury House, Handsworth House, Kingswood House and Westminster House. This was the cradle of great sportsmen who came out of the school.
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Victoria Island, Lagos, was allocated to the school as a partial compensation for the Ojoo Site, Badagry, Lagos State, that was taken over by the Lagos State Government for the use of the Lagos State University. The school operates on the Victoria Island
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Methodist Boys' High School, Lagos started on Broad Street, Lagos and remained on the site for over 100 years. Subsequently, a 60-hectare parcel of land in Ojoo, Lagos - Badagry Road, Lagos State, was allocated to the school by the Lagos State
Government for the purpose of expansion and better
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On March 14, 1878 the new school was formally opened, with Rev. W. Terry Coppin as the first principal. In April 1878, the first batch of students were taken in. There were 12 names on the roll. Among the 12 boys was George Stone Smith, the first on the list and therefore the Senior
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Centenary Hall to mark the 100-year anniversary of the school, built a chapel, and donated staff quarters.
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suitability for learning. Though significant development was made on the new location towards the relocation of the school planned for 1982, the new location was eventually taken over by the Lagos State
Government and now serve as the permanent site of the Lagos State University.
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Scholar. There were also six mission agents-in-training. By the end of the year the number on roll had increased to 23 boys and seven agents, and work had commenced in earnest. Methodist Boys' High School, Lagos, thus became the second secondary school in
Nigeria, after the
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