The All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) is a professional organisation of principals of post-primary schools approved by Government. Before 1956, principals from the three former regions in the country-eastern, northern, western and Lagos as the capital had forum individually where they met and discussed.

 The birth of the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) therefore was as a result of the mandate of the Joint Consultative Committee on Education (JCCE) plenary meeting held on 16th and 17th April 1956, in Kaduna. That meeting directed the regional bodies of principals to widen and the association that emerged was called "Nigeria Conference of Principals".

In response to this directive, "Nigerian conference of principals" which later metamorphosed into the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) was founded on January 3, 1957 when Thirty-two Principals of Schools met at the Nigeria College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan. At the meeting which was chaired by Miss N.C Wedmore of St. Anne's School, Ibadan, delegates from the three regions and Lagos were in attendance.            Read more