CHAPTER ONE
1.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
With what the present day secretaries are and what we have about technology, it is pertinent for us to emulate the ways of Europeans; there were records and records keeping of events that took place with the period. In West Africa, different services rendered by secretaries exist which could be classified as ancient and modern. Some places even used oral record before the arrival of the missionaries, but when the missionaries came, things changed.
Moreover, in 1842 when the white man arrived and established schools, church as and small scale business for the successful accomplishment of their mission and evangelism. The genesis of the modern secretary was established. A secretary is an indispensable asset to any organization or establishment. Their importance and sensitive position can never be overemphasized. They play major roles in both private and government establishment.
Most of these secretaries were trained in different tertiary institutions of learning in Nigeria especially in polytechnics. The history of the polytechnics in training secretaries has assumed greater roles in recent time considering the special nature of secretarial course, peculiar instrument or equipment normally