1. HOUSES AND COLOURS:

While other schools were busy identifying houses and hostels with colours, number or letters, Lutheran High School, Obot Idim was the first school in this part of the world that came out with a concept of naming houses/hostels after some distinguished personalities who have made this great institution. For instance, Luther House is named after Martin Luther, the founder of the Lutheran Church Worldwide. Luther House has RED as her colour. NAU House is named after Rev. Henry Nau, the first Resident Missionary who brought Lutheran Church to Nigeria. GREEN is her colour. Rev John Louis Konz who accompanied Rev. Henry Nau to Nigeria as a missionary became the first principal. Konz House, which is named after him has BLUE as her colour, EKONG HOUSE / HOTEL is named after Rev. Jonathan Udo Ekong the founder of Lutheran Church of Nigeria. YELLOW is her colour.

Apart from the hostels, other buildings named after important dignitaries are: The school auditorium (named after Mr. A. A. Obot, the first indigenous principal of the school) and the Intro Tech block (named after Air Marshall Nsikak Eduok, a Distinguished Old Student, who built and equipped it).

1. COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE TRENDS

It is a fact that Lutheran High School, Obot Idim now lives by her past glory. Extra curricula programmes, which LUTHISCOLIANs enjoyed, are gone. Today it is believed that, those things that added value and assisted the students in their academic pursuit are not given priority attention. Conducive learning environment is no more. Good facilities such as well equipped laboratories, class room blocks, constant power supply, well stocked library, as well as dedicated and committed teachers arc lacking. Today, there are more day students than what were obtainable years back due to non-availability of hostel accommodation coupled with poor feeding, lack of discipline and lack of social amenities among others. The government of today has also contributed a great deal to the woes of students, teachers and the school at large by not providing the requisite facilities for learning.

Generally, an honest assessment of the school reveals a high level of decay and decline in almost all areas of the school's life. All these are traceable to various factors, chief of which is the negligence on the part of the government, mission, state, parents, and old students among other factors.