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The Great Ife Alumni Association draws its membership from graduates and associates of the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (renamed Obafemi Awolowo University in 1987).

Since the late 60s, graduates of the university had come together to form an alumni association with the cities of Lagos and Ibadan as the main hubs. Indeed, Ibadan Branch was formally inaugurated in 1974 at the British Council Hall, Dugbe. With time, branches of the association spread to many of the urban centers in the country. Today, there is hardly any geographical zone in Nigeria that doesn’t boast of branches of the Great Ife Alumni Association. There are currently 20 financial member branches in Nigeria as follows: Ile-Ife (Home branch), Ibadan, Abeokuta Owo, Lagos, Osogbo, Ado-Ekiti, Benin-City, Ekpoma, Warri, Agbor, Abraka, Asaba, Onitsha, Awka, Port-Harcourt, Kaduna, Minna, Abuja and Sokoto. Many more branches will soon be accredited and dormant ones reactivated as soon as they meet the constitutional requirements.

The Great Ife Alumni Association, Nigeria has a National Executive Council (NEC) as its apex decision-making body comprising elected officials and chairmen of all the branches in the Nigerian federation. The NEC statutorily meets every quarter.