Christ the king college seeks to be a learning community, offering its students a well-rounded, world class, International education. The college will offer a broad education interweaving academic study and co-curricular activity within a framework of pastoral care in which each part is an essential component, just as every strand of a tapestry brings essential value to a total work of Art and Science. CKC seeks to develop the whole person. The college fosters the scholastic, spiritual, creative, physical, personal and social growth of the students. The college will strive to guide, motivate and awaken the minds and hearts of its students and staff to realize their full human potential.

Irish missionaries founded Christ the King College Onistsha, Nigeria in Febuary 1933. It is an academic institution dedicated to intellectual and personal growth of male youths within the context of well-rounded liberal arts education in a catholic environment. It actively maintains its relationship with the catholic church despite being expropriated by the Anambra State Government in 1973 and temporarily renamed Heerey High School. The college provides equal educational opportunity for all qualified students without regard to race, religion, creed, color, age, and physical disability , natural or ethical origi