| Our lady of Fatima College | |
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Rivers State Nigeria | |
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| School type | Secondary School |
| Established | 7 November 1994 |
| Principal | Rev. Sr. Rachel-Marie Okolorie (EHJ) |
Our Lady of Fatima College is a Roman Catholic, all-girls, boarding high school in Borokiri, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It is located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt. The school was established on 7 November 1994 with just 60 students admitted into JSS1. They were later divided into two arms (A and B) of 30 students each. The first principal was Rev. Sr. Mary Francis Ikwenobe (EHJ). [1] The current principal since 2017 is Rev. Sr. Rachel-Marie Okolorie (EHJ). [2]
Port Harcourt is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Benin. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the oil rich Niger Delta. As of 2023, Port Harcourt's urban population is estimated at 3,480,000. The population of the metropolitan area of Port Harcourt is almost twice its urban area population with a 2015 United Nations estimate of 2,344,000. In 1950, the population of Port Harcourt was 59,752. Port Harcourt has grown by 150,844 since 2015, which represents a 4.99% annual change.
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Christ the King College, Onitsha (CKC), popularly known as CKC Onitsha, or Amaka Boys, is a Catholic all-boys secondary school in Onitsha, Nigeria. It is ranked the top-ranked high school in Nigeria and 36th in the top 100 best high schools in Africa as of February 2014.
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This is a timeline of the history of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria.
St Rose's Senior High is a public Catholic high school for girls, located in Akwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The second-cycle high school was founded in 1965 by the Dominican Sisters.
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