“Platinum Award of Recognition”: PICS/Video as OCI Foundation’s President is honoured for Education Growth in Anambra by the PPSSC (15/10/25)

WEDNESDAY, October 15, 2025 (Awka, Nigeria): The leadership of the  Anambra State Post Primary Secondary Schools Commission (PPSSC), the body in charge of Senior Secondary Schools in the State, has honoured the Founder and President of the OCI Foundation, Dr Chris Ifediora, with the “Platinum Award of Recognition”.

The recognition was for Ifediora’s “numerous contributions to the growth of Education in Anambra State“.

The ceremony was part of the first-ever “Cultural Carnival and Talent/fair Exhibition for Government Secondary Schools” organised by the Awka Zone of the PPSSC at the Alex Ekwueme Square in Anambra State, Nigeria.

The award was received on behalf of Dr Chris Ifediora, an Australian-based Family Physician, by Mrs Imelda EMEKA, the Domestic Liaison Officer of the OCI Foundation. Others in the Foundation’s team at the event were Mrs Vivian ONYEKWELU, Mrs Ngozi CHIGBTA, Mr Simon EKWUYE and Lady Ogechi EFOBI, all of the Otuocha Zone of the PPSSC.

The OCI Foundation is grateful to the entire Awka Zone of the PPSSC, as well as the Commission’s State Chairman (Prof Nkechi Ikediugwu) for this honour.

It should be noted that the PPSSC is an official partner of the OCI Foundation International. The Commission was vital in the conception, successful roll-out and ongoing implementation of the Foundation’s Arm Our Youths (ArOY) Health Campaign across all the public senior secondary schools in Anambra State (September 2019) and beyond.

Students and schools in the six zones of the PPSSC are among the highest beneficiaries of the OCI Foundation’s activities on Education (including multiple scholarship categories and statewide quizzes) and Health (including the novel, evidence-based, Harvard-endorsed  ArOY Anti-Cancer Campaign). Most of these activities have been in place since the OCI Foundation started operations in 2017.

The OCI Foundation is committed to the ongoing sponsorship and expansion of these programs in Anambra State and across Nigeria.