Titcombe College is a secondary school in

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, Kogi State, Nigeria. Founded by missionaries of the Sudan Interior Mission in 1951, the school has produced notable Nigerians including the former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan and the late Professor Pius Adesamni. Alumni association of the college has commissioned several projects on the campus.

History

Titcombe College was founded in March 1951 by missionaries of the

Sudan Interior Mission SIM is an international, interdenominational Evangelical Christian mission organization. It was established in 1893 by its three founders, Walter Gowans and Rowland Bingham of Canada and Thomas Kent of the United States. The initials originally ...

Alumni

The college has produced students who are among notable Nigerians today. Few of them include the former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan (retd.), Professor of Management Science at the

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Solomon Adebola, the Chairman of the Central Planning Committee (CPC) Tunji Arosanyin and the late social commentator and university lecturer Pius Adesamni, a Professor of Literature and African studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and the director of the University's

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. Adesamni died along with 156 others, on the ill-fated

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jet that crashed March 2019. With a robust alumni, several sets of Titcombe College have been giving back to the college.

References

External links

Official webpage
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