The 2025 Annual General Assembly (AGA) of Government Secondary School, formerly FCT Secondary School, Gwagwalada, which was laced with an historic grand reunion of the first set of graduants (1985), has been hailed as truly exemplary, and an all-round success.
This assertion was made by the Director/Secretary FCT Secondary Education Board (SEB) Dr. Mohammed Sani Ladan, while presiding over the commissioning, of two solar-powered boreholes (one each for the boys and girls hostels) 130 meters deep, with overhead tanks capable of holding 10,000 litres of water, and eight reticulation taps.
“The Old Students Association, especially the class of 1985 deserves my praise, for accomplishing such a laudable project and should be emulated. It’s my prayer that the project for a long time to come, serve its purpose, and betters the lives of the children who would use them,” Dr. Sani Ladan said.
Among special guests at the commissioning of the legacy project were two former teachers – Mr. Musa Obaje Abdullahi (English Language), Mr. Adamu Joseph (Mathematics), and the current Principal Dr. Orifa Victor, the Vice-Principals, teachers and a host of current and old students of the school, some of them arriving from the diaspora.
Others are the director and zonal head, Gwagwalada zonal office of FCT Education Monitoring and Evaluation, Alhaji Ohimago Ibrahim Saheed, who was there along with Alhaji Gani Yahaya; as well as the Chairman PTA of GSS Gwagwalada.
In her paper entitled “the place of Alumnus in their Almer-mata”, Mrs. Florence Okonkwo, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the FCT Transportation Secretariat, underlined the four most important roles, Alumnus should play in the lives of four major groups – the school they graduated from, the current students of the school, fellow Alumnus, and the immediate community where the school is cited.
Before the commencement of the lecture, old students mostly dressed in the school’s age-long white and blue uniform, attended the morning assembly alongside current school children, and were addressed by the Vice Principal administration, Kehinde Abbas Adesina; Chairman of the reunion planning committee, Pastor Osondu Ogbuaku, and the current head girl of the school; after which they were led in march past to the GSS Gwagwalada Multipurpose Hall for the lecture.
Aside from inaugurating the boreholes, day 2 was dedicated to a dinner for 120, but mostly the first set of graduants (GOLDS 1985), at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja; as many of them nostalgically hugged and brace one another, being that they were seeing each other physically after four rounded decades.
The last of the three-day AGA, and grand reunion was rounded off with a novelty football match between selected old students captained by Tansi Almakura, and tutored by Shuaibu Mohammed, against selected teachers of GSS Gwagwalada; and the enthralling encounter ended 4-1 in favor of the GSS Gwagwalada selected side, for whom Taofiq Aladeokin scored a hattrick.
Medals were awarded to the players and officials at the event; before the activities moved to Grand Pela Hotel in Durunmi, Abuja; where the AGC unanimously voted to step-down the election of new officers, in accordance to a proposal by the electoral body, headed by Barrister Fabius Jamide Atie.
GOSA President, Ambrose Chinwike Obeta, was subsequently given a twelve-month mandate as Caretaker Committee Chairman to midwive a process that will see to the election of a new executive committee for the association.
