Currently, she is a Principal Manager with the Nigeria Ports Authority where she has been working since February, 1985 and occupies the seat of Traffic Manager at the Lagos Port Complex. She has over 25years experience in the sports industry. She did her Youth Corp Service with the Nigeria Customs Service and has attended several seminars with visitations to major ports in the world.

Mrs. Aisha is the Founder and Founding Chairperson of Women in Logistics and Transport (WILAT), Nigeria; the initiator and former National President of Aleko Women Association. She is equally a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, UK and a female representative in the council of CILT, Nigeria. She is a role model in her profession and her interest lies in initiating and supporting female programmes for the upliftment and empowerment of women.

Aisha Ali-Ibrahim is a recipient of several awards and community honours which include:
⦁ African Women of Virtue Gold Award
⦁ The Distinguished Women of Merit Award
⦁ Star Performance Award
⦁ Meritorious Leadership Award, and
⦁ Officer of the Igala Kingdom (A Chieftaincy title of Iye-Adetu Atta Igala)
Her credibility and integrity remain permanent virtues in her.

The post AISHA ALI IBRAHIM (MRS.) appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

A member of the Nigeria Bar Association and Principal Partner, Uptown Solicitors, Margaret Onyema & Co. Law firms, she is the immediate past President of Nigeria Trawler Owners Association (NITOA). Barrister Onyema – Orakwusi had headed many parastatals in Nigeria where she distinguished herself as a successful industry player in the maritime industry.

She is the Chief Executive Officer of MORBOD GROUP which deals on fish trawling, fish farms and fish imports. She was a co-chairman of Nigerian Fisheries Laboratory, a joint venture between the private sector (NITOA) and the Federal Government (Ministry of Agriculture) which was established to certify seafood products exported from Nigeria. She later became the matron of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria, Lagos State.

Owing to her exemplary work style and leadership roles, the legal icon has held several prestigious executive positions in professional bodies and associations. She is currently the chairperson, Women Corporate Directors (Nigeria Chapter), member, Advisory Board of Women in Business and Leadership. She was Vice President, Woman Economic Strategic Association (WESA) and council member to the following: Nigeria Danish Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Indigenous Ship Association and the Nigeria Trawler Association.

In the maritime sector, Barr. Orakusi had held the position of the Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Expo (NIMAREX) 2012 Committee. She was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Maritime Training School (Public – Private Sector joint Venture) and member of the Elders’ Forum; Women’s International Shipping and Trade Association (WISTA).

She is also a fellow of International Logistics Association and a fellow of the Certified Institute of Shipping (FCIS)

The post BARRISTER (MRS.) MARGARET ONYEMA –ORAKWUSI appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

She has had a distinguished career in both the public and private service. Chikwe pioneered a strong national political activism and advocacy trying to correct the stiff disenfranchisement of women and youth in nation building. Because of her pivotal roles in the endeavours, she was appointed to serve first as Minister of Transport and later as Minister of Aviation during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, where she is believed to have impacted positively on both sectors, through sterling leadership qualities. Her tenure as ministers was categorized by crucial sectoral challenges, and her ability to secure and promote a level competition provided the government some stability that also translated into newer frontiers.

A woman leader, educator, counselor, adviser and mentor, Chikwe was assigned two ambassadorial appointments, one to Ireland and the other, Iceland. Respected and loved, she has since relaxed into nation building, often operating from the background, and have continually enriched the political process with her wealth of experiences. She’s a national figure and an icon.

The post DR. (AMB.) KEMA CHIKWE appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

Dr. Ezeh started her post graduate career in 1993 when she served the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex Management Board as a Commercial Officer. There, she served in Sales Administration, Commercial Development and Clientele Advisory Services. In 1995, she moved to Aulic Nigeria Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria as a Business Development Manager. She handled Product Development, Product Promotion, Project Planning, Development and Management at different times. She was distinguished for developing and introducing new Businesses as well as managing Business Co-operations. Thereafter, she moved to Millennium Exhibitions Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria as the Manager of International Operations. Ever dynamic she later moved to Red Arrows Industrial & Allied Services Ltd, Lagos Nigeria as the Head, Information, Research & Development. After Dr. (Mrs.) Ezeh completed her doctorate overseas, she re-joined Aulic Nigeria Limited as the Executive Director, International operations before ascending to the position of the company’s Deputy Managing Director.

Dr. Ezeh belongs to several social and professional organizations where she also served in different capacities. She is a member of the Nigeria Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM). She is the Global Ambassador/Vice President of the African Rural Women and Youth Development Initiative.

The post DR. MRS. CHIKA HOPE EZEH appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

A Freight Forwarder of repute, Hajia Muse attended the prestigious Bernardine Grammar School, Oyo where she passed her WAEC in flying colours. Forward looking, the little Bola as she was fondly called by family members was unfettered by the modest financial back ground of her family.

She took up paid employment with Honda Motor Company in Kano as a Clerical Officer and with her small wage read and pass admitted into Baron School of Business Administration. No sooner she completed her Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Administration, she was again in 1991 admitted into Kano State Polytechnic where she did her Higher National Diploma (HND) in Secretarial Administration. She proceeded to the University of Calabar to do her Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.

Self motivated restless Bola who watched societal dynamics, quickly enrolled for computer training in Information Technology, graduating with an Advance Diploma in Information Technology with an Elective Executive Professional Diploma in Freight Forwarding.

Hajia Muse is a respected and accomplished professional licenced Freight Forwarder, whose story is a rich motivation for young women in diverse ways.

Hajia Muse attained the pinnacle of enterprise, industry and womanhood driven by the fear of failure. She bestrides the society like an amazon and her NGO, Bomarah Foundation which she established in 1991 has since become a beacon of hope, support and spring board for many indigent students and apprentices, under privileged children, disabled and the destitutes alike.

In recognition of her services, Hajia Muse has bagged many awards from various organisations and groups, in Nigeria and overseas. The awards include Reality Vocation Innovation (RVI) Cultural Ambassador; Eminent Leadership Award; Achievers Gold and Global Leader of Integrity Merit Award; and Grand Matron of Ansar Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Kano State Chapter, among several other awards.

The post HAJIA BOLA IDIYAT MUSE appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Masters degree in Business Administration. Born on January 14, 1960, Tumaka is a fellow Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (FNIPR) and a member of other professional bodies which include WISTA-Nigeria.

Hajia Lami Tumaka has won several awards of excellence to her credit including that of the 2012 Best Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the Transport and Maritime Industry, an annual industry PR Survey by MMS Plus Weekly.

She also has a place in the Hall of Fame as a result of her goal-getting style of Public practice garnished with the flavor of human empowerment and institutional enrichment.

The post HAJIA LAMI TUMAKA appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

With over 2,500 members, COWA with the collaboration of numerous agencies and institutions such as the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has empowered over 500 men and officers’ wives through different types of skill acquisition and provision of soft-loans towards achieving self-sufficiency. COWA also engaging in vices and corrupt practices.

Hajiya Sa’adiya Abdullahi Dikko, after her primary education, schooled at Government Girls College Kawo, Kaduna for her secondary education between 1979 and 1983 from where she gained admission into Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, first for preliminary studies in the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and later went for a degree programme, graduating with Bachelor I Education.

She believes in good home management and impactful leadership through women at family level, a factor which also drives her passion for selflessness and capacity building. For providing succor for the hopeless, Hajiya Sa’adiya has earned herself a place in the MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

The post HAJIYA SA’ADIYA ABDULLAHI DIKKO appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

A graduate of B.Sc Accounting from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Hauwa is driven by passion to empower the youth, sensitize people for self-discovery and wealth creation.

As an author, her book, “Can Every Nigerian Be A Millionaire?”, a best seller has motivated many Nigerians and foreigners to become self-employed. Many of the readers through their testimonies have started flourishing businesses, thereby creating employment opportunities with incredible value addition to the economy. The book is an investment and job creation pill, any day. Hauwa Audu is a fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a Council member of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). She was a member of the high-powered delegation from the corporate Nigerian that embarked on investment drive abroad for the country under the leadership of the former Director-General of NSE, Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke.

A heavy tither and a benevolent leader, her philosophy is touch your next neighbor, positively. This belief seems to be a driving force for her untiring mentorship programme for both budding entrepreneurs and investors. This aspect of Hauwa’s disposition to life provided the opportunity for her to be not only one of the pioneer resource persons for the establishment of Covenant University, she provided the practical framework for the establishment of the department of entrepreneurial studies in the university.

The post HAUWA AUDU appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

Since becoming the First Lady, Her Excellency, Mrs. Obioma Liyel-Imoke, has dedicated her entire life to joining her husband to take governance to the people who need it the most. She has been working towards the improvement of the livelihood of the people of Cross River State, especially the woman whom she sees as the key to family growth and development and she considers this as a sacred assignment from God.

It is these considerations that inspired Mrs. Imoke to initiate Partnership Opportunities for Women Empowerment Realization, POWER, which is the flagship of all her other initiatives including Mothers Against Child Abandonment, MACA; A State fit for a Child, ASFAC, Destiny’s Child Centre, DCC; the Refuge which is a project of MMACA. She also facilitates a quarterly prayer meeting christened Cross River Pray which brings the whole state together to pray for the government and people of the state. In addition to this, she established the only American-certified international school outside Lagos and Abuja, surefoot American International School, Calabar, together with her retail market outfit, Valuemart Limited, Calabar.

POWER is the driving machine for most of the development interventions she has embarked upon. She tells you that POWER is a holistic empowerment tool. The organisation’s interventions are in the area of economic, political, social, and spiritual development. In the simplest terms, POWER, she explains, is about value addition. She uses this vehicle to improve the lives of the women of Cross River State. Economically, she is putting more money in the hands of women by strengthening their businesses, providing access to finance, sharing information and knowledge, facilitating mentorship for the women, and directly facilitating micro credit for the women. Spiritually, she holds a quarterly prayer programme that brings the women and servants of God to pray for the state. Politically, she is promoting an agenda that will see more elective and appointive offices for the women using the First Lady’s (Chief (Dr.) Dame Patience Jonathan) Women for Change and Development Initiative as a spring board.

In the four years that POWER has been running, women’s lives have been positively affected. Scores of women across the state have their businesses enhanced through the micro credit facility POWER is facilitating. The success story of the micro credit scheme resonated across the country and earned her awards and recognitions including that from the Central Bank of Nigeria as Best First Lady in Micro-credit and Agriculture. Inn appreciation of the highly impactful work she is doing, her Excellency, Mrs. Obioma Liyel-Imoke was recently conferred with the following awards:
⦁ Humanitarian Award for the year 2011 by the Safari Group
⦁ Award of Appreciation in recognition of Her Excellency’s contribution towards the upliftment of guiding in Cross River State
⦁ Munjeres Entre Mundos Award in recognition of Her Excellency’s hospitality in hosting volunteers from Spain between 2010 and 2011, Her Excellency, Mrs. Obioma Liyel-Imoke is driven by passion and her idea is to make the world a better place to live in. it is impossible to do that in a broad scale without starting from her immediate community. That is why she has made Cross River State her initial target community. This is more so that, as Wife of Governor, she is in some form of unwritten contract to compliment her husband’s revolutionary move in grassroots development. She sees herself as merely an instrument in God’s hand leading change in the community called Cross River State. Through her initiatives, she is tackling incidences of poverty reduction, wealth creation, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, child abandonment, cancer, HIV/AIDS, among others. She is a strong advocate of women working in partnership to help one another tackle the problems that darken their lives – poverty, neglect, domestic violence, illiteracy, discrimination, inequality, malnutrition, disease. She has psyched up the women not only to believe in their abilities but work to change their world. In her usual pep talks, she does not cease to remind them that although they may lack material resources, but they possess a wealth of an even more precious resource: imagination. And their imaginations light the dark. One skills and resources to create sustainable solutions.

The other passion that fires her up is her determination to find solutions that not only work, but spread. She works assiduously to touch base with the 196 political wards in the state. She has undertaken a couple of pilot projects, with a plan to replicate them across the different communities around the state. She has also motivated the women in the state to share a sense of responsibility not just to themselves and their families, but to their communities. Her hard work has a multiplier effort on the people around her.

Like her name, Obioma, literally suggests, heart of gold, she is so tender. She literally picks up abandoned children, takes them to her home nurtures them until she puts them in foster homes through a very transparent and organised legal system with the Ministry of Social Welfare at no cost to the beneficiaries. She does not think that orphanages are the best for abandoned children. And what happens to pregnant teenage girls that have been rejected and thrown out of their homes? They come to her after through investigations, the one with sincere stories are taken into a safe haven she calls the Refuge where they are catered for, counselled against vices, and are taught some LIFE (Living Independently For Ever) skills to help in their self-development. The girls are mainstreamed into normal societal life after delivery of the babies.

Although she has a well structured system with well trained staff and experts assisting her, the passion she has to help hardly gives Mrs. Imoke any space to rest. Her phones ring ceaselessly. Letters for help pour in like torrential rains and you wonder the energy she has to personally attend to all these issues and also take care of her family which, to her must come first.

These enterprises have created tons of jobs for men, women and children. In Obioma, you find a powerful woman with a clear vision and unusual strength of purpose to change her world. Her imprints are legibly emblazoned in the minds of the womenfolk and in the sands of time for her courageous interventions in critical areas of development especially as they affect women and children. Mrs. Liyel-Imoke has added immeasurable value to the women and children of Cross River State. She is married to His Excellency, Senator Liyel-Imoke (CON) and the Executive Governor of Cross River State. The marriage is blessed with four lovely children.

The post HE OBIOMA LIYEL-IMOKE appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

She is a fellow and member of numerous institutions which include: Institute of Directors (IOD); Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb); Nigerian Think Tank and National and National Economic Summit Group.

She has been honoured with several awards but her outstanding performance is in her repositioning of NSC to be at capacity, Advocacy for industry stake holders; Maritime Arbitration, among others.

Ify is the immediate past President of WISTA-Nigeria and plays active role in making the Nigerian woman better.

The post MRS. IFY ANAZONWU-AKERELE appeared first on MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.