GOVERNMENT COLLEGE IBADAN, (founded February 28, 1929), is a “boys only” secondary school located on the hills of Apata Ganga in Ibadan, Nigeria.

The expatriate Founding Fathers were Selwyn McGregor Grier, who conceived the idea of setting up the school, and V.B.V Powell, the first principal of the school. Government College was modelled after the British secondary boarding schools of the era, and the first set of students numbered twenty nine. In the period before the dissolution of the Western Region, Nigeria, the school earned the enviable fame of being one of the best secondary schools in Nigeria.

The school has produced over 80% of the presidents of the Nigerian Society of Engineers since its inception, and one of the four Africans in history to be awarded a Nobel Prize.