In 1990, ten girls from Federal Government Girl’s College (FGGC) Calabar, Cross River State were led of God to put a lasting solution to the predominant problem, which plagued their students. They discovered that students who had been hallmarks of integrity and undaunted devotion to God and who had been examples to the junior students were becoming opposites of all these after they graduated from college. The junior students were becoming deeply worried that what had happened to their role models would also happen to them.

These ten girls met and shared the burden of the vision with Brother Ubong Jesse Daniel, who regularly preaches in their college’s chapel, who at that time was a student of the University of Calabar College of Medical Sciences, Cross River State, Nigeria and also an ex-student of Federal Government College (FGC) Kano. The girls began to write letters to other Federal Government Colleges to inform them of the initiative. The young man provided the girls with a rubber stamp and writing materials for the letters. He also wrote the FECA Anthem and the Motto of FECA.

Upon leaving school in 1990, the group of ten girls (Senior Secondary School three students) decided to correspond with each other through letters to encourage one another in the Lord and in maintaining the high standards of integrity and righteousness. They also kept corresponding with other students who lived outside Calabar. The plan for letter writing soon evolved into weekly meetings. They also mobilized their peers in other states to start their weekly meetings.

Brethren from Port Harcourt and those of Benin City had on their own started an identical meeting, and when they heard about the group in Calabar named FECA, they changed their name and aligned themselves fully with the vision. Meetings also began in Enugu, Lagos and Akure as other Ex-students of various Federal Government Colleges became aware of this initiative. Consequent of this, the name Federal Ex-students' Christian Association was adopted and the association was officially inaugurated in 1991 in Calabar, Cross River State. Upon registration with Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria in 2008, the association was officially registered and now known as Federation of Colleges Ex- students' Christian Association (FECA).

The pioneers of this Vision were:

1. Edak Isangedighi

2. Eme Ebiefie

3. Emoefe Okupa

4. Folasade Ogundeji

5. Nse Williams

6. Grace Abakasanga

7. Mildred Ephraim

8. Funke Allen

9. Patricia Bebia

10. Nkeiru Uyawunne

• Dr. Ubong Jesse Daniel was the young man who supported the ten girls at the start-up of the work. At the inauguration in Calabar, he was appointed the first National Youth Patron.

We the members of the Federation of Colleges Ex-students’ Christian Association (FECA) of Nigeria, convinced and conscious of our common faith in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, committed to the unity of the body of Christ and to the fulfillment of the Vision the Lord gave us, upholding the Word of God in spirit and in truth to glorify God and lift up the name of Jesus Christ in our Nation; we vow to keep the vision burning in our lives and in our country and do hereby ordain and give to ourselves this Constitution.

He: Stands for either a Male/Female.National Programs: Programs organized either at the National or Regional levels.Tenets of Faith: What is believed and upheld.

S: Stands for Section.

SS: Implies Subsection.

Men: Stands for both sexes i.e. Male and Female.

NEC: National Executive Council.

FECA: Federation of Colleges Ex-students’ Christian Association

FECA FOSM: Federation of Colleges Ex-students’ Christian Association Forum of Senior Members.

FCN: Federation of Colleges Ex-students’ Christian Association Campus Network.

1. The association shall be named FEDERATION OF COLLEGES EX-STUDENTS’ CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, (clause hereinafter referred to as “FECA”).

2. This constitution shall be binding on all members, organs, officers and activities of the association, and shall regulate their affairs with the association and with any outside body.

- No part of this constitution shall be subject to modification, suspension and abrogation or otherwise amended except by two-thirds majority of all executive members present during a National Convention.

- FECA shall have full autonomy in the conduct of all its affairs and shall not be

- subordinate to any other body.

- No person or persons shall assume in any manner an office in FECA except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

- Any rules or obligations made by any person or persons which is in any way inconsistent with any provisions of this Constitution shall be void to the extent of such inconsistency.

3. The vision of FECA is:

- To unite and follow up born again Christian youths; ex-students of Federal Government Colleges and other private and state schools (Universities, Polytechnics and Vocational Training Schools) in Nigeria,

- Encourage in the faith those still in schools, and reach out to those not yet saved, and to other youths in general all over the country.

- Aimed at “Redeeming the Desolation of our Land and Generation”.

4. The motto of FECA shall be “Keep the Vision Burning”

The anthem of FECA here written shall be learned and sung by every member in every fellowship meeting of the association everywhere:

Here and now in our time
We remember our God
Who made us and loved us
And gave us Christ His Son
So we come in the love
Of the one who made us free
We stand in one accord
To redeem the desolation
Of our land and generation
As we walk with the Lord

(Chorus)
We shall rise and shine as the light
We shall lift the weary hands up that hang down
We shall raise the feeble knees that stoop to fall
As we call upon the Lord
What He tells us we shall do
And we shall keep the Vision burning
As we walk with the Lord

In the days of our youth
We remember our God
Who gave us this nation
And the blessings we receive
So we give Him our lives
And the worship He deserves
We move in one accord
In His holiness and power
To redeem our generation
Till He comes again


Composed by: Dr. Ubong Jesse Daniel