About FGC Sokoto

In the early 90s the UK based ex-students had been paying extensive lip service to forming an Alumni Association for the members of the Diaspora. Unfortunately it never materialized because no one was enthusiastic enough to initiate proceedings during that period.

In the closing stages of the millennium year, 2000, a few of us must have been simultaneously struck by lightning because we all acted in unison to establish and found the long overdue Alumni Association.
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Aims And Objectives

• To instill a sense of National pride, self discipline and righteousness amongst the incumbent students in order to aid the nation in producing a principled and selfless generation, which would inevitably save the nation from its current decay perpetrated by present and past regimes.
• To promote professional networking opportunities amongst the alumni.
• Considerable contribution to the development of the school i.e moral, infrastructural, cultural, provision of mentoring schemes for the incumbent students.
• To encourage interaction with other Federal Government College alumni associations and to entrench the 'Pro Unitate' ethos in the country.

School History

As part of the policies of the Federal Governement of Nigeria, Federal Government Colleges, were established to foster peace and unity amongst the nation's youths. Thus on the 6th of February, 1966, Federal Government College ,Sokoto was established alongside two others (Okposi and Warri).
Here began the regime of the Federal unity colleges as they came to be known.

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