About OCSS

Ohuhu Community Grammar School was founded  as a joint venture of the Ohuhu Clan in Umahia North in Abia State right after Nigeria gained her independence from Britain in 1960. Dr. M. I. Okpara, the then Premier of the Eastern region, pulled together the leaders of the autonomous communities in Ohuhu land to embark on a joint educational venture for the future of their descendants. They agreed to locate the school centrally at Amaogwu on Okigwe-Umuahia express way. All the neighboring villages donated their land for the project. 

The first crop of students were tutored by a great team of educators led by Mr. Ebenezer Ibe from Umuegwuokpuala in Ohuhu. The first set of graduates sat for WASCE in 1965, just before the Civil war started without registering a grade one score. After the war both the expo class of 1970 and the class of 1971 could not break the grade two ceiling. So, in 1971 the school management board hired a crop of hot-headed educators from all over the Eastern region to better equip the students for WASCE. That effort paid off with two grade one results in 1972, which attracted students from neighboring secondary school to Ohuhu Community Grammar School. OCSS became a pace setter in the Ohuhu area. Many of the alumni have had successful professional accomplishments and held influential positions all over the country and abroad.

But in the last two decades, there has been a decline in the sponsorship and performance of the products of the school after its was taken over by the state and renamed Ohuhu Community Secondary School (OCSS). The Ohuhu Community has, however, been able able to recover the school from the government in 2022. So, the goal of the OCSS Global Alumni Association is to join hands with the community leaders to restore the school to its former glory, and give our younger generation a better chance of success in life. At the recently concluded 60th anniversary celebration fundraising ceremony spearheaded by the class of 1993 some money was raised to start fencing in the campus and renovating the buildings to secure other infrastructural upgrades planned for the school. We are counting on the donation of, at least, one cement block from every old boy and old girl of OCSS, as well as well-wishers for the successful completion of these projects. Our motto remains: Love and Service.  Long live OCSS!!