government schools that sprang up in Lagos during this period. The emergence of these competing schools called for the recruitment of qualified teachers. Unfortunately, there was a large chunk of untrained teachers working in Lagos during this particular period. Consequently, the idea of establishing a centre where unqualified teachers’ professional skills could be upgraded was muted alongside the training of craftsmen who could help teach practical skills to pupils. Hence, by 1958, a Grade III teacher training college in the name of Lagos Day Training College, with a population of about ninety students was established. Within the first decade of its existence it became Government Teacher Training College and was charged with the responsibility of producing Grade II teachers.