The Class of 1983, Government College, Keffi, Nasarawa state, is to honour some prominent members of the Keffi Old boys Association (KOBA) at its reunion meeting marking 40 years of graduation from the college.
The meeting is slated for July 28 -29, 2023, in Jos, the Plateau state capital.
Chairman of the organising committee, David Nanyak, disclosed this in a telephone conversation with AmazingTimes on Saturday.
He said those to be honoured for their contributions to KOBA, an umbrella body for alumni of the college, include the President General of the association, Chief Edward Ujege, Chief Robert Taple, Ambassador Bagudu Hirse and Gen. Joseph Nimyel (rtd).
Also to be honoured, according to him, are Sam Israel, KOBA Secretary General as well as some members of the class who have distinguished themselves in their fields of endeavours.
Nanyak who is the President of the Plateau Chapter of KOBA, said the reunion meeting is aimed at reconnecting members of the class with each other since graduation from the school 40 years ago – 1983 to 2023.
“It is exactly 40 years this year, since we graduated from Government College, Keffi. We want to reconnect with each other.
“We want to strengthen the bond of friendship and brotherhood we started as teenagers while in the school and to thank God for sparing our lives all these years.
“Some of our colleagues have died, God has been merciful to us, so we want to meet and fraternise, to reflect and to know how we are faring”, he said.
The class which is said to be one of the most populous set, with about 340 students admitted in 1978, is among other class sets that had contributed to the upliftment of the college.
Nanyak said, as part of its contribution towards addressing the infrastructural decay in the college, the class renovated and furnished Abisoye Hall (Staff Room).
