Government Secondary School, Odi was established on the 13th of March
1972. It started as a boarding school with the present day Odi health
centre as the dormitory and administrative block. The school classrooms
were not concentrated in a particular area. Some of the classes were at
present Favour Children School, while other classrooms were located in
other compounds. In all, about one hundred students in classes I and II
started the school as a community school made up of boys and girls.
The
pioneer principal of the school, the late M.D Subi started the school
with five other tutors which incude Mr. Godwin Koffi Gbekibine, Chief
Clever George, Mr. F.G. Larry, Mr. Banton Akpurutu and Mr. Clinton
Waribugor.
In 1973, the school moved on to its then
permanent site which is now inhabited by Federal Government College,
Odi. This is as a result of the federal government displacing the state
government from the site in September 1999. After the displacement, the
school squatted with Amasain Primary School till June 2003 when the
school finally moved to where it currently occupies, a building
constructed by Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
in
2006/2007, the school was split into two Government Secondary Schools
as the senior comprising of SS1, SS2 and SS3 and the junior section
comprising of JSS1, JSS2 and JSS3. This was necessitated by the newly
gazette Universal Basic Education (UBE). Both schools now have different administrative structures.
In
2010, the principal Mr. Ayanka Wanke Kamaungu having been transferred
was replaced by the present dynamic principal Mr. Gomet Binaebi, an
indigene of the community. Since his assumption in office, there has
been great developmental strides like the provision of a solar source of
power, notebook computers with wireless local area networks to aid
learning, world standard science laboratory, library and well equipped
computer laboratory. It also boosts the school and the community of a
portable water system provided by Century Energy Service Limited (C.E.S.L) - a company owned by a former student of the school.
Presently,
the school boasts of academic staff strength of over 35 including Corps
members. The school has continued to grow from strength to strength.
LONG LIVE GSS ODI!
LONG LIVE BAYELSA!!
LONG LIVE NIGERIA!!!
Source: The Trumpet Blast Magazine