Nebo Hall at Abalti Barracks, Ojuelegba, Lagos, didn’t just host another lecture. It held a promise – one made 20 years ago beside a hospital bed by a daughter to her dying father. That promise became the G.O. Nebo Memorial Foundation, and this year’s gathering marked two decades of keeping it alive. Soldiers in uniform sat shoulder to shoulder with academics and young students, not to recite history, but to ask what kind of future they owe the man they came to remember. Writes MARY NNAH
It started as a promise made beside a hospital bed, and two decades later, that promise filled Nebo Hall at Abalti Barracks, Ojuelegba, Lagos, with soldiers, professors, and students who had all come for the same reason: to argue about the future of Nigeria’s classrooms. On Wednesday, May 20, the hall hosted the 20th Anniversary and 5th Memorial Public Lecture of the G.O. Nebo Memorial Foundation, turning a personal vow into a public conversation.
The event honoured Col. Godfrey Okechukwu Nebo (Rtd), a late army officer remembered for his discipline and mentorship. But the real focus wasn’t on the past.
Under the theme “Rethinking Nigerian Educational System: The Need for a Paradigm Shift,” speakers used the platform to push for urgent changes they say Nigeria’s schools can’t afford to delay any longer.
