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THE ARRIVAL OF ST. ANTHONY’S COLLEGE AND ANGLICAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UBULU –UKU  

In 1955, the Anglican Mission on 31^st June announced  at Egbu – Owerri, that it was going to  establish a Grammar school West of the River Niger in any town or village, that would be the first to deposit the sum of 8000 thousand naira with the mission.

Incidentally, Ezekiel Afamefune Mordi was at the Synod. He informed His Royal Highness Obi Ofulue 1. They mobilized people and levied all Ubulu Ukus in diaspora.

The Roman catholics in Ubulu Uku had become to uncomfortable with all the attention given to the Anglicans. In order to protect their religious and academic interest, they appealed to His Lordship, Bishop P.J. Kelly, who graciously approved a Roman Catholic Grammar School for Ubulu-Uku without demanding a kobo from the natives. To crown the joy of the people, he ordered that the school should start immediately and so, in 1956, the first batch of students started St. Anthony’s College, Ubulu-Uku. The opening of St Anthony’s College, made the Anglican mission to speed things up.

In 1957, the Anglican Grammar School was opened with Mr E Afam Mordi as the first principal thus giving Ubulu Uku two grammar schools in two years after many years of longing for one.