"Keep The Ship Sailing"

The Lagos branch awarded Chief (Mrs) C O Agodo The S B AGODO Medal at its recent annual dinner in Lagos. 

CITATION ON CHIEF(MRS) CLEMENTINE OBOMEGWOLO AGODO ON THE OCCASION OF RECEIVING S.B. AGODO MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UGHELLI.

Clementine Obomegwolo Agodo was born on the 30^th of May 1933 to Mr. Wilkey Morhay and Mrs. Alice Eminokanju Morhay (Nee Ohwovoriole).  She hails from Alaka Quarters in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.  She lost her father before she was born and was brought up by a very devoted and loving single mother, who remarried and became Alice Eminokanju Obahor only after her young daughter had reached adolescence.

Clementine Obomegwolo Agodo spent her early years in Warri where she attended Igbudu Girls’ School for her primary education. She proceeded to boarding house at New Era College, Surulere-Lagos for her secondary education.  She left after only one year, as being an only child, her mother wanted her closer home. She continued her education at Urhobo College, Warri until her fourth year when she transferred to Remo Secondary School, Shagamu for her final year.  Her love and natural compassion for others propelled her into Nursing School, Eleyele Ibadan where she graduated as a qualified nurse in 1955.  She worked as a nurse until shortly after her marriage to Stephen Borogu Agodo on the 15^th of December 1956 in Warri.  Thereafter, she became a fulltime housewife until two years after the birth of the last of their five children.

In 1964, she went to the United Kingdom to study and acquire a diploma in Secretarial Studies and Administration.  Upon her return to the country two years later, she joined in a major electronics equipment manufacturing firm in Lagos as a Secretary/Administrative Manager.  She served conscientiously in this and higher capacities for seventeen years until her voluntary resignation/retirement.  Since then, she has been involved primarily in the development and growth of her own business endeavours centred on Trading and Real Estates.

Clementine Obomegwolo Agodo, the matriarch of the Agodo Family, lives in Lagos but spends a lot of her time in her home at Effurun-Warri, where she takes direct and tremendous responsibility for her large extended family/relatives.  Though she is now fully retired, she remains a philanthropist and a very active member of the Anglican Church.  She is a large-hearted person who derives great joy in sharing the blessings God has bestowed upon her with others.  She is the President of Urhobo Ladies Association, Lagos and a patron of numerous other social, professional and religious organisations around the country.

In recognition of your being a tower of strength to Mr. S.B.Agodo, our first Head of School who showed exemplary devotion to the School, and your sterling qualities as a matriarch to all our Old Boys who came your way during the planning activities of our golden and diamond jubilee celebrations, the Lagos branch of Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association, in  a unanimous decision, found you as the most deserving to be the first recipient of S.B.Agodo Medal for Distinguished Service to Government College Ughelli(GCU). It is my pleasure and honour to present to you Chief (Mrs.) Clementine Obomegwolo Agodo to receive the S.B.Agodo Medal for Distinguished Service to GCU.