On August 20, 1922, Augustus Taiwo “Tai” Solarin was born in Ikenne, Ogun State. The son of a civil servant, Solarin grew up in Ikenne at the dawn of Western education in the town. He later called those years the foundation of his lifelong devotion to discipline, truth, and service. Trained first as a teacher and later in the United Kingdom, he returned to Nigeria with a clear mission: to build a different kind of school. In 1956 he founded Mayf…
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