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The Press Centre
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Independent Coverage
Four articles in The Punch across three years, two carried onward by other outlets. Cited exactly, dated as indexed; the school archives each article against link rot. The full evidence record lives in the History & Heritage archive.
The Punch · 29 August 2023 · bylined feature by Olawoyin Edris
The first national feature: the school in Imowonla, “offering a lifeline of hope,” and the founding story from the Fashola-era idea to the working campus.
Read at punchng.com →The Punch · 14 November 2024 · republished by Edugist
The unveiling of Sultan Hanafi Royal College: Governor Seyi Makinde’s ₦10m gift toward educating less-privileged students, and his tribute to the founder’s integrity.
Read at punchng.com →The Punch · 21 March 2025 · syndicated by MSN
The second Sultan Annual Qur’an Competition: ₦1.5m in prizes, the category winners named, and the director’s account of a competition “first of its kind in Nigeria.”
Read at punchng.com →The Punch · August 2026
The Class of 2026 combined graduation across five institutions, themed “Building the Future Ummah Through Holistic Education.”
Read at punchng.com →The school’s own shares of the Punch coverage above: Facebook · X.
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Boilerplate, for reuse in your own coverage: “Sultan Hanafi Royal Schools is a conglomerate of five institutions — Sultan Hanafi Nursery and Primary School, Royal College, the School of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Qur’an College, and the Online & Distance Learning School — providing qualitative secular and Islamic education in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria, since 2016.”
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Founder & Head of Schools / Administrator
A chartered accountant: B.Sc. Applied Accounting (Oxford Brookes University), M.Sc. Financial Management (Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University), FCA (ICAN), FCCA (UK). Over two decades across banking, insurance, oil & gas and consulting. Before the governorship, chief accountant in the company of Engr. Seyi Makinde — who publicly credited his integrity at the 2024 unveiling of Royal College. Founded the school in 2016 in honour of his father.
Press render variants of his name (“Olanrewaju Anofi”, “Hanafi Olanrewaju”) refer to the same person; the rendering above is canonical.
Co-labourer in the founding · brother of the founder
A chartered professional accountant (CPA) based in New Brunswick, Canada, with a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a portfolio spanning financial management, operations and strategic leadership. Named in the school’s account of its founding as one of those whose encouragement carried the project.
Director, Qur’an College
Director of the college behind the Sultan Annual Qur’an Competition — ₦1.5m in prizes, described in The Punch’s 2025 coverage as “the best and first of its kind in Nigeria.”
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