Results and Winners of the 2026 IFOMSSA (JUNIOR AND SENIOR) Scholarships; Awards Ceremony Scheduled for January 23, 2026

Winners

A downloadable PDF version of the winners’ list is available as: Final Winners UPDATED 2026 IFOMSSA Senior and Junior_8.

Introduced in 2017, the IFOMSSA (Ifedioramma Okafor Memorial Secondary School Academic) Awards was established in loving memory of the late Obi Ifedioramma Isaac Okafor, who is the father of the OCI Foundation Founder, Dr. Chris Ifediora. In his lifetime, Pa Ifedioramma was an education champion.

This year’s Awards-giving Ceremony, an annual event where the winners and their parents are usually honoured, has been scheduled for Friday, January 24, 2025 (details below):

It can be recalled that the selection exam (IFOMSSA Challenge) for the IFOMMSA Senior category was held Friday, January 16th, 2026, at Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria.

The IFOMSSA awards were introduced in 2017 and have been held annually since then. This is the 10th Edition. Most recipients go on to receive the OCI Foundation’s JAMB Awards and the Cyfed Undergraduate Scholarships, among the 8 sets of scholarships offered by the OCI Foundation.

Selection Criteria

Selection of the winners was based on the students’ performances in the 2026 IFOMSSA Challenge. The top eight made up the Merit List. The Catchment List for this year included EIGHT additional names. This Catchment measure was introduced to ensure that all participating towns in the Otuocha Educational Zone of Anambra State (comprising Anambra East, Anambra West, and Ayamelum Local Government Areas) were represented on the winning list. An eligible participant can only be included in the Catchment List if he/she is the best from a town that was not represented in the Merit List, and also made an aggregate score of at least 40%. Towns that did not meet these two criteria have no winner in the final list. Nsugbe, the President’s hometown, has at least 3 winners on the final list (Merit and Catchment combined).

All participants in the IFOMMSA Challenge (including non-winners) are eligible for the OCI Foundation’s JAMB Awards and the Cyfed Undergraduate Scholarships, which are among the 7 sets of scholarships on offer from the OCI Foundation.

There were also 34 winners of the 2026 IFOMSSA Junior Award. The Junior award is reserved for all JSS-3 students of Nsugbe origin attending the Community High School (CHS), Nsugbe. They will each get sums equivalent to the registration fees of their Junior School Certificate Examinations, JSSCE.

We look forward to an even more exciting edition next year, AND congratulate the 50 winners of the 2026 IFOMSSA Awards.

Videos of the ceremonies in 2017, 2018 and 2019 award ceremonies can be found below: