About Us

Brief History

The “Association of St. John‘s 94” set” with the sobriquet, AS94, founded in 1999, is an alliance of classmates who primarily graduated from the St. John’s Cross Minor Seminary, Isienu, Nsukka, in the year 1994. The association is however constitutive of two levels of membership without distinction of any sort in terms of privileges and obligations. The first level is the “Ordinary membership,” level, made up of those who graduated from the St. John Cross Minor Seminary, Nsukka in the year 1994. The second level is the “Extraordinary membership,” level, made up of those who ought to have graduated from the St. John Cross Minor Seminary, Nsukka in the year 1994 but did/could not, but who have shown consistent interest and commitment in the affairs of the Association. The association operates with the motto, “Solidarity for Ever” and aims towards fostering love, peace, unity, progress, friendship, and mutual understanding among members; promoting the spirit of co-operation and social relationship among members as well as encouraging the general welfare of the members. She however extends this inner solidarity to the society as she constantly applies herself in service and charity to her environment and the rest of mankind.

The initiative to the establishment of this association was borne out of the above desire by Kingsley Anagolu (then a seminarian in Philosophy one at Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu - Nigeria) in the year 1998. Subsequently, during the routine annual general reunion of the senior seminarians of Enugu Diocese with their then bishop (Most Rev. Michael Ugwuja Eneja, of blessed memory) at their alma mater, Sacred Heart Minor Seminary, Nsude, in August of 1999, the idea of the establishment was generally welcomed by the pilot members who were then made up of only those that graduated from St. John’s Minor Seminary, Isienu-Nsukka, in 1994. With that, she held her very first formative meeting during this reunion at Nsude seminary, with Chimezie Ani emerging as her first president while Leo Ene became the first general secretary.

In December of the same year, 1999, she held her first official meeting/convention at Akwuke, Enugu, hosted by Victor Okey Chime with about twenty (20) persons in attendance. It will however take another six (6) years from her foundation before she got her official name, “Association of St. John’s 94” set (AS94) during her annual general convention in the year 2005. In December, 2022, “AS94” registered as in Enugu State of Nigeria as LUMEN POPULI Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, with the registration number, AS No. En 24, 040. Today, she has a total number of 42 members from all walks of life: corporate and civil society, clergymen, medical and legal practitioners, business men and members of the academia.