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Guy Garguilo (Former Pricipal of Ajuwa Grammar School, Okeage, Ondo State, Nigeria). Obviously you can see he is a Pa. He has been in Nigeria for more than 50 years. He was a Principal in Ajuwa Grammar School Okeagbe Akoko, Ondo State where he introduced what we now know as the continuous assessment in school.

His beautiful mind brought a lot of glory to Ajuwa Grammar School during his time as the principal of the school. I know this because my father is an old student of the said school.

Under his administration, the school as far back as 60’s and 70’s was very self sufficient. Gargiulo had the students planted several palm trees which are still a source of income today for the school.

The school had a standard animal husbandry facility where they rare pigs, hen, cows, even snakes. The school also had a standard entrepreneurship center that catered for students who aren’t so academically sound. Some guy from the school secured a job with a German company based on Guy Gargiulo’s recommendation which acknowledged the fact that the student is poor as far as academic knowledge is concerned but is a guru as far as anything mechanical (engineering) is concerned.

The students of Ajuwa Grammar school ate food from their school farm and meat from their livestock farm. Dad told me that when pork was served in school back then, Muslims will be served egg which also comes from the school poultry. Guy Gargiulo facilitated the buying of modern equipments back then which were used in Agriculture.

In sports, Gargiulo used his ingenuity, he constructed a dam across a river that flowed through the school premises to create an Olympic sized swimming pool which exists in the school till date. From Ajuwa Grammar school he was able to raise students to become professional swimmers who represented the state and the country in swimming competitions. Some of these students wouldn’t have performed well academically but Gargiulo built a school that developed not just the academic skill but the totality of the child. It was a well-rounded school that is aimed at helping the students reach their maximum potential. Ajuwa Grammar school in those days matched the UNESCO standard of what A School should be.

Today, the school is in a pitiful state. Only the presence of some of the equipment that Gargiulo built (brought into) in Ajuwa, albeit spoilt, can be seen as an evidence that some sort of sophistication was once in this place.