TRIBUTE
Efunjoke Coker
Efunjoke Coker (1924-2019); Educationist, first Nigerian principal of the Queen’s College, Lagos. Efunjoke occupied the unique place of being the only Queen’s College girl on record who participated in the life of the school in the capacities of a student, Principal, and Chairman of the Advisory Council.
Efunjoke Coker (1921-2019)
IN LOVING MEMORY
As a teenager, Efunjoke tutored pupils at St. Teresa’s in Lagos and Ibadan, followed by St. Agnes in Lagos. After her Masters degree in Dublin, she returned to Nigeria to be posted as Education Officer at Queen’s School Ede, then four years at Education Officer at Government College Ibadan, where one of her students had been Olu Falae, Nigeria’s presidential aspirant in 1999. From GCI she took up the post of the Vice Principal of the Queen’s College, Lagos, resuming work on 2 July, 1962. Eighteen months after, on 22 December 1963, she became Principal of the school.
