CITIZENS COLLEGES (CITICOLL)
African Citizens development Foundation (ACDF), on the path of a mission to fulfill its vision towards “building a cultured society” established the Citizens Comprehensive College (CITICOLL) on the 12th of October 1997, as a “tuition free” co-educational voluntary-aided comprehensive school to offer qualitative secondary education to eligible African children irrespective of social class or cultural disparity. The free tuition policy of the ACDF is the Foundation’s stake in the development of its future Development Partners who are expected to take a major role in future for the global development challenges of the African continent towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the International Agreed Development Goals (IADGs).
The college is a component of the ACDF Youth Development Programme, aimed at catching and moulding young the future incorruptible African leaders who will be strong enough to face the global development challenges of the continent. All students enrolled at Citizens Colleges are registered as student members and inducted as Life-Members of the Foundation at graduation. The Foundation remains stakeholder and accepts high responsibility in the general development of these youths even after their graduation from the colleges and as working adults. The Foundation has inducted a total number of 453 graduates (as at September 2009) from the last nine years.
Citizens’ Colleges are government approved secondary institutions with the pioneering unit in Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria. Currently, the colleges are in three units and located in Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Both units are designed for English/French Language Development (EFLD) as tools for international communication and connections for African future leaders while the Ogba unit of the colleges in addition offers junior classes for children who cannot cope with the rigour of an early boarding-school setting. The three units are designated as Citicoll Schools I, II and III.
CITICOLL is one of the major promoters of French Language in Nigeria and now developing English Language in Benin Republic. It is the largest French Language promoter at post primary school level in Nigeria.
