About the College

Archbishop Heerey Technical College, Ogidi is one of the schools established by the missionaries in the old Eastern Region of Nigeria. In the 1950s, Archbishop Charles Heerey entered into a land agreement with the Odida community in Ogidi to found a secondary and technical school. After the preliminary preparations, the school was officially established in late 1966 as Archbishop Heerey Secondary Technical School, Ogidi.

Its first students began formal education in January 1967 — about fifty boys in classes 1A and 1B, both boarders and day students — under the school’s first Principal, Rev. Fr. C. C. Cunningham. The technical section was well equipped, with a large generator and heavy-duty machines, and started with woodwork, hardware and mechanical trades.

The school closed in 1967 so that students could find safety with their families, and by 1970 almost all the buildings had been devastated. Teaching resumed under very difficult conditions. Schools were then taken over by the military government of Eastern Nigeria; the technical programme was reverted to a conventional secondary curriculum and the name changed to Boys’ Secondary School, Ogidi.

In 2011, through the intervention of the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, mission schools were returned to their original owners. At the return of the schools the Proprietor, Most Rev. Valerian M. Okeke, directed that the original name be restored.