Omar Bongo Technical High School Explained

Omar Bongo Technical High School
Type:	Technical high school
Students:	6,000
Grades:	KG1 – 12
Location:	Libreville
Country:	Gabon

Omar Bongo Technical High School (French: Lycée Technique Nationale Omar Bongo^[1]) is situated in Libreville, Gabon.

It is among the largest secondary schools in Gabon with some 6,000 students. The technical school is named after Omar Bongo (1935 – 2009), former President of Gabon.

The school was temporarily shut down in January 2004 because of student lawlessness and the invasion of another school. A subsequent inquiry found that corruption and prostitution were endemic in the school.^[2]

See also

• Education in Gabon

External links

• School: Sex work, fraud rife (12 February 2004). news.24.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
• "Gabon." Britannica Book of the Year, 2005 from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9398336. Retrieved 29 September 2005.

Notes and References

1. http://lcweb5.loc.gov/glin/jurisdictions/Gabon/pdfs/206708-188703.pdf Arrêté n°005 du 25 mai 2007
2. Mayengue, Daniel Mboungou (5 March 2004). "Trouble at Gabon President's School". BBC News. Retrieved 4 June 2016.