Born in April 21, 1956, she obtained a Bachelor of Education Degree in English and Literature from the University of Benin. Her restlessness to improve herself and add value to the society got her into taking a series of professional courses in Shipping and Port Management, International Marketing and Shipping Brokerage having gained employment with NPA after a stint as a lecturer. Today, she is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Amiable Consultancy and Logistics Services Ltd, but her exploit as ED, M&O in NPA still speaks for her. Her role in the conflict of appropriate port charges in the maritime industry and tireless efforts to make the port access roads free of traffic jam, through the provision of truck-holding bays endeared her to Nigerians, but in particular the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) that nominated her in place of their resourceful female members.

According to the Stallion, “I accept the award and promise that the qualities identified in me during my years of public service, will be upheld even in my private assignments.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you a Stallion of impact, Elegant Elizabeth as a member of 2013 Class of MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame. She is Hall of Famer Elegant Elizabeth.

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She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, having read Law at the University of Jos and passed through the Nigeria Law School, Lagos. She also holds a Master Degree in Law from the University of Lagos, where she distinguished herself in academic excellence.
Nwanze started her working career with NICON Insurance Plc, as Legal Officer in 1990, where she worked for several years.
In 2006, she left NICON as Manager in charge of the Legal Department, Lagos office for private practice with Abel partners as the Associate partner until 2009, when she joined Slok Nigeria Ltd., as the Group Company Secretary/Legal Adviser.
Endowed with a rich experience through numerous professional travels, continuous seminars and workshops on Legal related matters, she is a member of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, Nigeria.

Her role in helping to reshape the fortunes of Slok Group, especially in the shipping sub-sector stands her out as an MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Famer in the Class of 2013.
I present to you Hall of Famer, Ngolizing Ngozi Nwanze! (Triple N).

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She obtained a Degree in Business Management from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Bauchi State and has gained considerable experience in freight forwarding business, having held several positions of importance in the profession as a career.
She is a member of ANLCA and a politician by passion, a love that earned her a position as the Edo State Co-ordinator of Women for Change. She is happily married with children.

Her recognition as a professional with integrity in a fold with over 10 thousand members, earns her a place in the 2013 Class of MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Hall of Famer Budding Biddy!

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Recently, she was conferred with a Chartered status by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Nigeria.

A very humble nurtured personality, Mrs. Ovbude started a career in Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in 1972 and rose to the position of an Assistant General Manager in 2005 where she retired and helped to establish PTOL.

She has attended several seminars locally and internationally and privileged to be a recipient of several awards including Achievers Awards and Awards of Excellence. She is also a Trustee on the Board of Women in Logistics and Transport (WILAT).

Mrs. Ovbude in NPA was a bundle of inspiration to younger generation of workers. Her tireless efforts at empowering people pushed her into helping to establish PTOL, where hundreds of Nigerians are currently employed, making a living. Today, PTOL is spearheading the drive to make eastern ports relevant for ports decongestion.

Listening Lizzie earned herself a place in the MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame Class of 2013. This is Hall of Famer Listening Lizzie!

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As a believer in doing your best wherever you find yourself, her best endeared her to the Management of Texaco Nigeria Plc(now Chevron Oil Nigeria Plc), where she had her one year National Youth Service in the Marketing Department, as she was subsequently employed as a staff in 1986/87. That was the beginning of a flourishing career that spanned 20 years as she rose from being a junior Counsel in 1987 to the rank of the Acting Chief Counsel of the Downstream Company arm of Texaco Group in 1991.

In July, 1997, She was appointed Company Secretary and Manager, Public and Government Affairs. But following the mastery of her brief, in 2003 her Government and Public Affairs portfolio was expanded to cover Cameroon, Togo, Benin Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, and Congo.
She held these positions until in September 30, 2007 when she took an early retirement, having dutifully served the company for 20 years. This is typical of Scorpios.

Having amassed wealth of experience in Texaco Group via seminars, conferences, courses both from within and outside the country, they came handy in the formation of Brittania-U Nigeria Limited in October,2007. She has been steering the Exploration & Production (E&P) Nigerian Company as the first female Chairperson and CEO of an Upstream E&P Company in Nigeria.

Mrs. Ifejika has led the company through an era of historic landmark achievements in the Nigerian Oil and Gas sector, having made laudable industry progress and achievements in the company’s first project-OML 90 Ajapa Field Phase 1 development.

As a proponent of strict project control, she steered and managed the drilling of three wells, the design, fabrication and delivery of a custom-built a 10,000 per day production facility owned by the company within a record time of seven and half months and produced first oil all in seventeen months; a feat yet to be equaled by any other company in the sector.

Under her leadership, Brittania-U has established other(six) subsidiaries which she equally chairs and has grown the company within less than 4 years of its operation to a multinational company from a local player with asset base in excess of $5 billion Dollars.

Happily married with children, she is a mother and places much value on motherhood and this explains why she adopted three children just one week from their birth.

Ladies and gentlemen, Hall of Famer Utilitarian Uju is a rounded personality who has impacted her environment tremendously and remains an icon of hope for generations. You are welcome to the 2013 Class of MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

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Well read for this responsibility, She holds an LLB Hons Degree from the University of Lagos and BL Hons from the Nigeria Law School. She equally holds an MBA certificate in Banking and Finance, and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Lagos Business School(2007) and the Executive Leadership Program at Wharton Business School(2013).

Mrs. Onyejekwe started her banking career in First Bank of Nigeria Plc and piqued in UBA Plc as a General Manager with over 20 years of core banking experience. She served in Magnum Trust Bank as the pioneer Head of Treasury between 1992 and 1997. She joined the defunct Standard Trust Bank(STB) in 1998 and rose to become the Chief Marketing Officer in charge of all Lagos Branches in 2003. But the mastery of her brief in STB necessitated her being seconded to Continental Trust Bank as Group Treasurer. This saw her play strategic roles during the consolidation exercise in the Banks in 2005, and consequently, she was appointed the pioneer Regional Director Lagos in charge of over 100 branches in Lagos in 2006.

Her banking experience spans various areas which include Consumer and Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking and Treasury activities.

Until her appointment as an Executive Director in NIBSS, she was General Manager in Corporate Banking Directorate of UBA Plc with the oversight supervision of major conglomerates/multinationals in the industry.

Mrs. Onyejekwe who is happily married with children is an Associate Member of WIMBIZ and an Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

Considerate Christabel Onyejekwe deserves a place in the MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame for being a proven turn around and result –oriented professional with strong drive and leadership qualities.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you Hall of Famer Christabel Onyejekwe.

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She has demonstrated an infectious leadership and managerial skill in turning around the fortunes of the company which started as a trading company years back under the leadership of her late husband. She led the company to commence the production of one of the first indigenous brands of electrical wires and telecommunications cables with over a hundred employees to cater for.

Mrs. Odawulu is a product of Lagos State University and University of Ado-Ekiti, having obtained a Masters Degree in Educational Management, Planning and Policy as well as a Bachelor Degree in Home Economics, respectively. Mindful of the enormity of the responsibility before her, she has attended numerous conferences on Leadership and Management both within and outside the country.

With her firm belief in the effective delivery of result as against the usual hardwork, Mrs. Odawulu has positioned the Odic brand of wires and cables as safety and standards conscious products in Nigeria and West Africa with foreign technical partners.
Lawcious Lawretta has threaded where many people could not and entrenched her foot-prints in her area of operations, with visible value in the society. This is a feat that earned her a place in the 2013 Class of MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame as a role model.

We welcome Lawcious Lawretta into the Hall of Fame.

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She is a woman of many firsts, with hard work, selflessness and integrity as the hallmark of her career and business life. She retired from the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)as the first female Assistant Comptroller General(ACG) with record breaking performances in a world dominated by the malefolk. She became the first woman to be appointed Customs Area Administrator; first woman to be recognized by HER MAJESTY Customs and the United States Customs (DEA)for Drug Interdiction efforts in Nigeria; first woman to win the Ministerial Award as the Head of the Best Area in the Federation in the year in 1984 and the first woman to author a book on smuggling titled, “Smuggling, The Crime, The Law,” among others.

She was found worthy of being one of the wise women selected by the late Maryam Babangida to serve in the committee that mid-wifed the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and subsequently participated in the formulation of the National Policy for Women in 1992.

Her experience from the management of the Drug Unit at MMIA, Ikeja, between 1983 and 1987, came handy in her Memo presented through the Federal Ministry of Finance to the Council of Ministers on the need to establish the National Drug Enforcement Agency which was later established and called National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA).

Right from the early days of her career in NCS, to her consequent retirement and qualification as a Barrister in Law, she has exuded an aura of calm and an underlying steely sense of resolve that no doubt propelled her to the heights of her career in the service and beyond.
Kofoworola Olugbesan, born to the Laja dynasty of Lagos, took advantage of her parental value for education and excelled academically in Science, Law and Tax Administration from the University of Lagos, Nigeria Law School and University of Los Ageles respectively.

Not tired of rendering selfless service to the nation, she contested for the Lagos state’s Central Senatorial District position.
She is currently a Director of BEECON Ltd as an investor in Bitumen Exploration and an Executive Director of the Institute of Customs Agents Affairs and Conflict Resolution as well as the Chairman of Apapa Community Security Trust Fund.
It is obvious that Mrs. Olugbesan is a bundle of knowledge with a distinguishing quality as INTEGRITY which is a factor that has earned her a place in MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

We welcome Keenly Kofo into the Hall of Fame.

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Born in 1951, she founded LAWSON’S INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE SCHOOL in 1977 one year upon return from England for Studies. Today, the little mustard seed has grown into the LAWSON’s GROUP OF SCHOOLS made up of different schools.

The contributions of Iyalode Alaba Lawson in the area of Commerce and Industry are no less outstanding. She became the President of the Abeokuta Chambers of Commerce in 1995 and it was during her tenure that she was able to secure a permanent building known as the Commerce House as secretariat for ABEOCCIMA from the Ogun State Government. She also helped to start the OPIC Kajola International Market.

Currently, she is the President of Odu’a Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines & Agriculture(ODU’ACCIMA) and a Deputy President of NACCIMA.

In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the propagation of Yoruba culture, she has honoured with quite a number of chieftaincy titles, prominent among which are the Otun of Oko; the Asiwaju Iyalode of Egbaland and the most recently the Iyalode of Yorubaland by H.R.M. Oba Lamidi Adeyemi Iku Baba Yeye, the Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom.

Without any equivocation, Iyalode Alaba Lawson’s strongest point however is in the area of philanthropy especially as it concerns the grass-root and the under-privileged. She not only awards scholarships to indigent but brilliant students on a yearly basis, she founded the Iyalode Egba Foundation, a non-profit making organization that caters for women in general and seeks to assist them economically, socially and morally.

She is mostly seen by members of the grass-root as someone with a high sense of justice, fair play and empathy following which she is the matron to a lot of societies which includes , the Butchers; Blacksmiths; Welders and Iron Benders; Palm Oil Sellers; Fresh Fish Sellers; Herbs and Roots Sellers and the Ogun State Union of Journalists, among others.

Just a couple of weeks ago, she was honoured as Woman of Integrity by Fortune magazine.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Iyalode Alaba Lawson is no doubt a role model and deserves a place in MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame. And as a double honour she is a member of the 8 – member Governing Council of the Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame. We present to you Hall of Famer Iyalode Alaba Lawson.

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A lawyer and administrator of over two decades, ‘Pat’, as fondly called by family, friends and colleagues in corporate Nigeria, is currently, the company secretary, Legal Adviser and Executive Director (Properties) of the octopodal, high octane player in the Oil and Gas (downstream)sector, Masters Energy, Oil and Gas Group.

Her cerebral acumen is a product of her enviable submission to an ever burgeoning quest for knowledge, crystalysing in an intimidating resume, that include, Masters in Humanitarian Law and Refuge Studies; Masters of Law; Senior Management Programme Course of the Lagos Business School; Post-Graduate Diploma in Shipping and Maritime Law obtained from London Metropolitan University, among others.

Barrister (Mrs.) Patience Dappa is a member of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of Nigeria. An astute manager of man, material and resources, she acquits herself, creditably, as stickler for thoroughness, due diligence and corporate governance.
Pacific Pat is a quintessential change and growth agent, who is unabashedly committed to the conscious agitation for greater involvement of women in political leadership in all tiers of government in Nigeria.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we welcome Pacific Pat to the 2013 Class of MMS Plus’ Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame.

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