Citizens College was conceived out of the need to develop African citizens in order to build a cultured society in Africa and so, it was a strategy to capture the young early and mould them well and prepare them as brand new citizens that will form the foundation of a new cultured society in Africa. Therefore, the College is meant for the citizens, it is for citizens’ development and it is Citizens’ College.

Citizens College (CITICOLL) was founded by the African Citizens Development Foundation (ACDF) as its very first project and, the very first of the colleges: the Citizens Comprehensive College was established on the 12th of October 1997 at Temu – Epe, a suburb of Lagos State. ACDF has serious stake in education and Agriculture and you can please visit her website to learn more of her activities at http://www.acdf.or.ng or make enquiry by email at: info@acdf.org.ng

Citizens Colleges provides “tuition free” qualitative secondary education to eligible African children irrespective of social class or cultural differences. It is a co-educational and fully boarding except for the School three in Ogba Ikeja that provide junior Secondary classes for those students whose parents are not comfortable with they being in the hostel so early or for health reasons but, such students must be returned to the boarding school for their senior secondary education in line with the Foundation policy.

Tuition is one of several fees paid in the educational system, it represents: costs of providing classrooms, laboratories, libraries and other educational learning aid. This is all ACDF provide the students at the Citizens Colleges. Students pay all other fees including: feeding and boarding fees, special programmes fee and other consumables expenses.

African Citizens Development Foundation is sourcing its membership from the African Youths who passed through its colleges and they will be inducted Life-Members at graduation and hoped for being the future Development Partners (DPs) of the Foundation. As the Foundation commitment to this relationship is the tuition free, this is its stake in the development of these future Development Partners in the development of the African Continent. Beyond the tuition free initiative, the Foundation remain stakeholder in the development of its Life-Members even after leaving the college, in tertiary institutions and as working adult. The Foundation will offer possible assistance to its members while seeking admissions to Tertiary institutions and while searching for quality jobs as fully developed and working adult. Children/wards of our Life-Members and Development Partners that comes into our colleges will have minimum of 20% discount

It is because Citicoll programmes are stream based, it, therefore, makes control become easier and facilitate identification. It also enhances monitoring and effective planning.

French Language is compulsory at Citicoll to actualize the ACDF objective of producing multilingual secondary school graduates. French language is considered priority in view of our location within the West African sub-region and the prominence of the French language. We have chosen the French Language as the second international language for communication and connections. Students’ appetite is being inspired towards learning other international languages aside the French, such as: Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Japanese. Citicoll today is the largest promoter of French language at secondary school level in Nigeria.

The serenity and peacefulness of the environment which makes learning more conducive for the children, Temu-Epe location is also so direct for the parents to visit their children/wards given the network of roads, especially the Epe-Lekki Expressway.

Absence of grocery provision and cash at the Citizens Colleges, reduces bullying to an insignificant level, promote peaceful co-existence amongst students, creating balance and reducing cultism tendencies in the college which often is the point where the foundation is laid for practices later at the nation’s tertiary institutions.

Mixed-Age study Group curriculum focuses on contemporary studies, Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Students of different ages across classes meet and study everyday together. There are twelve (12) Mixed-Age study Groups (MAG) in all our three colleges and this promotes excellence performance at Citizens Colleges.

6-years programme is reliable because it gives focus to both the students and teachers from day one. It provides an academic map for the journey ahead.

The school presently have forty-five professional teachers. More teachers are recruited as the need arises.

All teachers in the college are trained and certificated teachers with a minimum of Bachelors Degree in Education or equivalent.

There is provision for regular staff development both in the school and outside

The ratio is 1:10

The welfare package aside salaries give room for long service allowances and opportunity to grow on the job.

Currently, we write the SSCE by WAEC (West African Examination Council) and NECO (National Examination Council) as well as the French Diploma Exams. Arrangements are on to start the IGCSE O/L