Mary Hamman is the President of WISTA and current Treasurer, Association of Nigerian Women Business Network, ANWBN. An educationist by training and of top flyer administrator.

Mary Hamman had her first major bit in corporate management at the Nigerian Postal Services where she worked and rose to become Postal Controller between 1987 and 1993. In 1993, she joined the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, where she has worked in various departments. Restless and with her gaze set for more challenges.

She again transferred her services to the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) as the Head, Sipping and Port Administration since 1999.

Hamman holds a master degree in Human Relations, and is a member of many professional bodies. She is Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Chartered Fellow ECRM (Emergency Crisis & Risk Management), Chartered Fellow IOS, member WILAT and ANWBN.

Highly resourceful and efficient, she has also served as executive management staff of a number if these professional bodies in various capacities. Hamman was the pioneer Treasurer of WILAT and current Treasurer ANWBN. Hamman graduated with BA Education in 1985, and thereafter proceeded to the Lagos State University in 2002 for her Masters, bagging MBA HRM (Human Resources Management).

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Ifeoma Adanma Ezedinma was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, and is the second of seven children of the late Professor and Mrs. Ezedinma. She started her education at the University Primary School, Nsukka, and proceeded to the prestigious Federal Government Girls’ College Gboko, for her secondary education. thereafter, she went to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, where she bagged B.Sc in English and Literary Studies in 1987.

She also holds a Master of Science degree in Maritime Studies (Shipping Management) from the World Maritime University Malmo Sweden.

She joined Nigerian Shippers’ Council in 1994 and its presently the Director, Regulatory Services. Her work experience within the Council cuts across several departments such as Human Resources, Servicom and Strategic Planning and Research.

She is currently representing Nigerian Shippers’ Council on the Board of Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarders in Nigeria (CRFFN) as a member. She is also a member of other professional bodies such as International Multimodal Transport Association (IMMTA), American Academy of Project Management (AAPM), and Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM).

She enjoys reading and spending time engaging her hands positively in embroidery crochet and cross stitch.

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Khadijat Sheidu-Shabi (MRS) is a Pharmacy graduate of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, and holds a post-graduate degree if HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) from the University of Lagos as well as a diploma in Project Management.

She started her career path as a pharmacist with the military hospital, Awolowo road, Ikoyi Lagos as a youth service corp member. Her first assignment outside government was with Kakaki Pharmaceuticals as a Managing Pharmacist in Charge of the company’s’ importation of drugs, where her leadership prowess was highly commended by both the board and all.

In her zeal and quest for a higher responsibility, she joined the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), as an Assistant Manager, Pharmacy in the Medical Department of the authority. She rose to the position of a Principal Manager in the same medical department from where she was promoted to her present position as the Assistant General Manager (AGM)- Environment with the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Department.

Khadijat Sheidu-Shabi is known to be a leader with very strong managerial skills, a confident self starter, a highly organized manager with an eye for details, a strategic planner, with traces of impeccable integrity and remarkable interpersonal skills.

She has strand of professional connectivity with different associations and recognitions. She a fellow of pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (FPSN), a member Association of American Pharmacist (APHA), a member of Federal International Pharmaceuticals (FIP), a member of Nigerian Environmental Society (NES), a member of Pharmaceuticals Society of Nigerian (PSN), a Secretary of Fatima Charity Foundation (FCF) an NGO that provides succor to the needy. She is the Public Relations Officer of Women in Logistics and Transport (WILAT) Nigeria. She has been honored with WILAT 2018 OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD.

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Barrister Obiageli Ogebenyanu Obi is the incumbent Director General of the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping, affiliate body of the Nigerian Maritime Industry. A distinguished top flyer administrator, Obi has set at the top level management of many reputable organizations over the past two decades. Highly energetic, resourceful and a target getter, Obi developed a strong passion for shipping business and oil haulage where she has since distinguished herself in productivity management and operational crisis control.

An uncommon legal practitioner with twenty fives historical sanction behind her, Ms. Obi was a Senior State Counsel at the Office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1981-1984, Legal Adviser/Company Secretary to Sparkling Breweries (Ughelli) and First Guarantee Pensions Ltd. (Lagos); and management Consultant with Chisco Transport Ltd. (Lagos). Ms Obi has a chartering and commercial experience and a substantial knowledge of global perspectives of shipping operations and management and is well versed in shipping operations for outbound/inbound cargo across international and local trade lanes.

Ms. Obi’s academic teeth were cut at the Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the Nigerian Law School, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Queens College Enugu and the Corona Schools, Lagos, following which she acquired professional memberships at the Nigerian Bar Association, Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA), Association of African Women for Research and Development, Women International Shipping and Trade Association (WISTA).

She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Fellow of the International Professional Managers Association (FCIPM & FPMA), respectively. She has a career objective which is to contribute towards the building of a large, strong, diversified, sustainable and competitive economy by translating strategic ideas into action and results. She has brought these attributes to bear on the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping where she achieved an Associate Member Status of the International Chamber of Shipping, the first African Group to attain such.

She has reinvigorated the advocacy machinery of the Chamber to support the maritime industry at the NASS, to provide stakeholder leadership at the Abuja MoU, Seafarers/Cadetship Advocacy, Ship Finance, Capacity Building and Training for Operators, ancillary port users and bridging the nexus between players in the Shipping, Oil & Gas Industries.

Obiageli hails from Ufuma in Orumba South LGA of Imo State. A Christian with four grown up daughters who are doing great in their respective endeavors, her interest include reading, social reformation and listening to classical music.

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Folake Oladapo Soji-George born on the 12th of July 1964 to late Chief Oladipupo Olowu and late Mrs. Kudirat Olowu.

Folake attended Ago Ijaye Methodist Primary School Isiwo in Ogun State between 1077-1982 where she obtained her WASCE. She went to Ogun State Polytechnic now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta 1982-1984 for her ‘A’ Levels. Thereafter, she proceded to the University of Lagos where she bagged a B.A. Hons in RUSSIAN Language between 1985 and 1989.

Cut for academics and professional specialization, Folake returned to the University of Lagos in 2012 to pursue a Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy. Upon the successful completion of her Masters’ Degree certificate, she went into private business and set up Dammydok Ventures Ltd, a general contracting business venture, where she has distinguished herself as an entrepreneur since 1991. Energetic and resilient she again registered and established business concern known as Moryu Ventures Ltd, a specialist Logistics and Haulage contracting company.

Folake Oladapo Soji-George is a business enthusiast who derives pleasure in actualizing whatever dreams or target she sets for herself. To the glory of God, she has remained a pillar of positive achievement. She remains an inspiration and beacon of industry for many in the line of her trade, and has won many awards as a loud testimony to her excellence and contributions.

In recognition of her expertise and resilience in the haulage industry, she was appointed pioneer Lady President of the Corporate Fleet Truck Owners Association. She is a role model and distinguished Member if Women in Logistics and Transport (WiLAT).
Folake Oladapo Soji-George is a happy lady blessed with children

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Nneka Ogochukwu Obianyor is the Acting Registrar of Ships, Nigerian Ship Registration Office under the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety (NIMASA). She was appointed into this position in August 2018 to help drive the reformation agenda of the Executive Management Team of NIMASA to reposition the Ship Registry for greater efficiency and optimal performance.

Prior to that, Nneka was redeployed from the Legal Services Department where she performed numerous roles including heading the Litigation and Case Management Unit to the Reform Coordination and Strategic Management Unit of the Agency in 2017and has been part of coordinating a number of on-going reforms in the Agency.

A graduate of law, Nneka was called to the Nigerian Bar 26 years ago. She had a stint in private practice before joining NIMASA, then known as National Maritime Authority in 1999. To be on top of her game, she acquired a Masters in International Maritime Law from the IMO- International Maritime Law Institute in Malta in 2001. Her insightful and intellectual perspectives in her Post Graduate desertion “Analysis of Piracy Control in a Modern Maritime Context” led to her been co-opted into an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Piracy on her return in 2001. Her work was used extensively by the Committee in arriving at its recommendations which included proposal for adoption of the Piracy Model Law approved by the Committee Maritime International (CMI) in 2001 as a model in drafting Nigeria’s legislation on piracy.

Her exposure to International Maritime Law brought opportunities as she also joined the International Ministerial Committee that reviewed the 1962 Merchant Shipping Act; she also made contributions to the works of subsequent Committees that led to the passage of the Merchant Shipping Act 2007 and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency Act in 2007.

She still serves in a number of Committee. Also in 2001 she was nominated to work with the team that reviewed the Agency’s case files and suggested Institutionalizing the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms such as Mediation and Conciliation in addition to Arbitration which was already popular as modes of resolving Maritime Disputes away from Litigation which had become cumbersome.

The Agency’s drive and position at that time opened up a lot of discussions among major stakeholders and today Maritime Arbitration and ADR have been placed in the front burner.

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Ms Nana Yakubu trained as a lawyer at both the Kwara State College of Technology and the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Upon the completion of her training at ABU in 1985, she was called to the Bar after her completion of Council Legal Educational Requirements in the year 1986. Thereafter, she proceeded for her first primary’ duties with the National Youth Service Corp in the year 1987 with the Federal Ministry of Justice

Highly self-motivated, organized and hardworking team leader with a practical approached to problem solving, she has left no one in doubt within her work environment of her capacity as a dynamic leader and administrator per excellence. Endowed with outstanding managerial skills, Nana has cut her teeth within the private and corporate environment as a confident self-starter, a strategic planner, capable of working under little or no supervision.

A clear, logical minded performer with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see things through to completion with attention to details; those who have come across her have no reservations that Nana is a successful profession al.

Nana hails from Okene Town, in Okehi LGA of Kogi State. She was born in Sokoto in the sixties to a highly respected family famed for respect and good values. She started her early education in Offa, from where she proceeded to Kwara State College of Technology where she bagged her Diploma in Law in 1981 from where she gained admission to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria in 1985 to further her law education.

Upon completion of her NYSC, she joined the Nigerian Ports Authority as a young lawyer in 1988 and rose through the ranks to her present positions as the AGM New Business Development in the Public Private Partnership Division of NPA since 2017.

Nana as she is fondly called has upped her professional experiences with extensive training and courses, some of which includes: Vicabim Consult on Effective Delegation for Attainment of Goals; Lake Forest Consultancy Limited of Effective Contract/Negotiation Management; Adval on R12.X Oracle Self Service Human Resources; Adval on Leadership Training; Bharkern Limited on Strategic Thinking & Business Planning for Leaders; ICPC Anti-Corruption Leadership Training ; and D&B Limited on Decision Making and Strategic Management.

Her leadership prowess endeared her to hold the title of Eze Nwanyi Nwere Ugwu of Imo State Towns Development Association, Lagos State chaptter (ISTDAL) since 2017 . She is also a member of various professional bodies, including Women in Logistics and Transport (WiLAT) Nigeria. In 2018, Nana was nominated as a recipient of the WiLAT ” OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD”. She is a community leader and a fulfilled happy mother.

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Mrs. Macfoy Rollens B.C. is the Executive Director, Ocean Deep Services Ltd. A seasoned Maritime Administrator, Rollens also has her hands deep in oil and gas sector, including enjoying robust project patronage tied to various government assignments, both within and across the African continent.

Expectedly, she has held management positions in several maritime organizations in the last 16 years, and has attracted very positive patronage in client services, while also cutting a niche for herself not only as a resource person but indeed, a trainer, moulder and mentor.

Rollens is not only widely read but finely accomplished, and has naturally impacted in no less dimension on industry, people and society at large. She obtained her B.Sc. Public Administration from Lagos State University, and went on to the University of Lagos for a Master degree in Industrial Labor Relations. Thereafter, she resolved to pursue a career in the Maritime, oil and gas sector, registering for a Post Graduate Degree in Maritime Law at the London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. Right after that, Rollens entered for another Post Graduate Degree course in Maritime Safety, Security & Environmental Protection at the World Maritime University Sweden.

Desirous of more knowledge, she proceeded to the Lloyd’s Maritime & Administration Academy London for a Certificate in Vessel Registration. Rollens was certainly not done. To keep abreast with modern techniques and trainings as well as obtained tons of certificates over the years. She trained as Ship Security Officer, Train the Trainer and Company Ship Security, respectively, at the DNV Maritime Academy Dubai, in conjunction with Lloyds.

A consummate professional and mind builder, Rollen is the author of Pathway to Maritime Studies and currently, Rector of Ocean Deep Maritime Academy. She belongs to many professional associations and groups. She is Vice President, Women in Maritime Africa (WIMMA- NIGERIA), Chairperson, Maritime Safety, Security & Environmental Protection, (WIMA NIGERIA); Member, Maritime Arbitrators of Nigeria; Member, Nigeria Institute of Management; Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Member, Women’s International Shipping & Trading.

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Dr. Mrs. Felicia Mogo is a cerebral personality with a quiet bearing and philanthropic mien, whose career as a civil servant is forced to eclipse. But like a golden fish, she has no hiding place. The deposit is a virtue.

She currently heads the Marine Environment Management (MEM) Department of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) having acquired over 27 years’ experience in marine, coastal and terrestrial environment management with practical skills in policy and regulation formulation, but with special interest in formulation of standards and guidelines for sustainable environment management.

A professional environmentalist, Dr. Mogo is a member of numerous bodies in related discipline with manifest values added over the years and so being a member of groups of Experts on Scientific Aspect of Marine Environment Protection (GESAMP), a United Nations advisory body on diverse aspects of marine environment management, in affiliation with UNEP-GPA, and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), she has immense wherewithal on International negotiation, strategic guidelines on implementation, compliance, monitoring and enforcement, planning organization, setting-up of national environmental regulatory arms, marine environmental investigation, and researching for decision making.

Dr. Mogo, even as a civil servant in Nigeria of today has continental and national burden. She wants to maximize her global contacts and professional experiences to bridge the knowledge gap in marine environment management in Africa, and as such she is already channeling her weight towards ensuring that the marine resources in the region are explored in a sustainable manner. It is simply safe to call her “Madam Blue Economy”.

An author and co-author of many books on her areas if specialization, She did her Ph. D in Ecology and Ecotoxicology at the University of Port Harcourt with numerous other post-graduate programmes taken in both foreign and local universities. Above all, she is a manager of human and material resources.

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