Mrs. Adaku  Okam is the Director, Human Resources Management at the Nigerian Shipper’s Council (NSC). She has traversed strategic departments in the Council by way of incubation and today she is fully refined as a rounded Transportant in the maritime industry. A gifted relationship manager, she is a bundle of hope and inspiration to younger generation of women and men. Give her difficult jobs and go to bed and you will not be disappointed.

Mrs. Adaku Victoria Okam is the Director, Human Resources Management at the Nigerian Shipper’s Council (NSC). She attended Federal Government Girls College, Abuloma in Rivers State and attended University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she obtained a B.Sc. in French and Language.

She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Maritime Technology & Management from Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo State a Master’s degree in Maritime Transport and Planning from University of Lagos.

Ada Okam has membership of many professional bodies. They include: Chartered Institute of Arbitration, London, United Kingdom; International Association of Researchers and Scholars; Nigerian Institute of Public Relations; Nigerian Institute of Management; Nigerian Institute of Policy and Diplomacy; Chattered Institute of Transport and Administration (CIOTA).

Ada Victioria Okam worked in various places before joining the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in 1991 as a senior Public Relation Officer and in a space of 30 years she has held various strategic positions in NSC. She was the Zonal Coordinator, South-East Zone, Aba from 2008-2015. Upon rising to the position of Director in 2019, she became Director, Special Duties; Director, Executive Secretary/CEO’s Office; Director Inland Transport Services.

She is an astute administrator with skills and extensive knowledge in the field of Public Relations, maritime transport as well as human resources management.

She is a goal-getter that believes in team work to achieve any given target.

She is a member of Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) and has a lot of mentees. She is married with children.

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Dr. Magdalene Ajani is a woman of steel. Her nature leaves one on the fence most times. Down to earth but determined, she abandoned her stethoscope for transport and logistics and yet not doing badly. As the Chief mother of the Ministry, she has a big umbrella for all. Adding “Mary” to Magdalene would have defined her personality better.

Ajani, Magdalene was born October 26, 1967. She hails from Agbor, Delta State. She started her career as a Civil Servant in the Lagos State Health Management Board as a Medical Officer; where she worked and went through trainings and rose to the position of Consultant Ophthalmologist in 2001.

She joined the Federal Service in 2006 as the first full time Consultant Ophthalmologist in the State House Medical Centre and rose to the position of Director in January 2013. Within this period, she encouraged and built a formidable Eye Care Team with specialization in different fields of eye care.

In 2018, Dr. Ajani was appointed a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Civil Service and on the 21st February, 2019 was deployed as the Permanent Secretary, Service Policies and Strategies Office, SPSO, Office of the Head of Service Welfare Office, SWO, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation. During this period, she was also Chairman, Joint Union. In December, 2019 after the appointment of newly appointed Permanent Secretaries she handed over the portfolio of the SWO. As PS, SPSO she was in-charge of the Federal Civil Service Reforms Programme, which has metamorphosed to approved FCSSIP2021-2025.

She was later redeployed in August, 2020 as the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transportation.

As one of the pioneering Consultants and medical specialists in the Centre, she encouraged and mentored her younger colleagues to medical specialization. As Chairperson, Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC) of the hospital from 2008-2010, she advocated good work ethics and efficient service delivery.

Her love for humanity and quest to give back to the society and underprivileged sees her volunteering her time and services as the Lead of Fountain of Joy and Comfort Foundation (NGO) that provides free eye care/surgery, maternal & child health, and education to the less privilege in FCT, Delta and Imo states. So far, over 200,000 people have benefitted under this foundation.

Her continuous drive to acquire knowledge has taken her to local and international professional courses in Kenya, Austria and USA, among others. She is a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons, Fellow of the International College of Surgeons and Glaucoma Fellow International Council of Ophthalmology.  She also has certificate in Management from Crown Agents, Worthington (U.K.), Leadership & Management from University of Washington (USA), among others.

Dr. Ajani  is working assiduously with her Ministers to deliver the presidential mandate and the National Development Plan 2021-2025 component of the Federal Ministry of Transportation.

We present Dr. Ajani as a member of MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame, Class 2024.

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Hon. Princess Clara Chinwe Nwaebili, is a former Commissioner for Transportation and former Speaker, Anambra State House of Assembly. She is fondly called Ada di Igbo Mma 1 of Obosi; Ada Ugo of Ogbaru; Ugo eji eje mba of Abagana, Mmili oma Agulu, among others. Chinwe has the unassuming mien, humility and candor typical of a sound mind with which she has coordinated her colleagues in the Anambra House beyond the expectation of everyone who witnessed her swearing in.

Rt. Hon. Princess Chinwe Clare Nwaebili is a former Speaker, Anambra State House of Assembly and former Commissioner for Ministry of Road, Rail and Water Transportation. Born on 16th May, 19971 to the family of His Royal Highness, Igwe Paul Udedike Afuberoh Eze Izagbo II of Ogbakuba in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, she attended Queen Rosary College, Onitsha, and proceeded to Delta State University, Abraka where she obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Accounting.

Upon making a career in politics, with interest in legislative drafting, she sought more knowledge in legal profession as a result of which she obtained a degree in Laws (LLB) from Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University in Anambra State.

Her political career trajectory which has been decked in fortune saw her occupying many positions across executive and legislative duties. She was a former member of transition committee Ogbaru Local Government Area Council in 2003; elected member representing Ogbaru II consistency in state House of Assembly, 2007; where she chaired different committees such as Housing, Environment, Public Account and Electoral matters.

She later emerged the Minority Leader, Anambra State House of Assembly; first tenure (2009-2011) and upon re-election, Chinwe was elected the Rt. Honorable Speaker of the House of Assembly (2011-2015). Subsequently, she became, President, Female Legislators State Houses of Assemblies in Nigeria (2011-2015) and would later emerge Chairman, Conference of Speakers, South-East zone.

The political fortune crowned her a member, Steering Committee, Common Wealth Parliamentarian of West African Region after which she was appointed first female Commissioner for Ministry of Environment, Beautification  and Ecology, Anambra State and later, first female Commissioner for Ministry of Road, Rail and Water Transportation, Anambra State between 2016 and 2017.

 Married into another royal family in Ogbaru, she has embarked on numerous empowerment programmes for women and the less privileged in the society.

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Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup is an amiable personality with the proclivity for a positive energy on a sustainable basis. She is inclined to being a hybrid gender, playing the role of a mother and a father in the maritime industry and doing same so well. This is a rare virtue. She is a role model to many people. She is the Executive Chairman of ENL Consortium Limited and the Chairperson of Seaport Terminal Operators Association(STOAN).

Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup holds a bachelor degree in Business Management from the renowned Holborn College, London, now known as Kaplan Holborn College. She was at different times at the London Business School, London Corporate Training Centre and Pitman Central College, London where she attended professional courses and trainings.

In 1984, she joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as Special Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup has extensive experience in oil and gas industry/sector management and administration.

She demonstrated tremendous capacity and capabilities in a wide range of oil and gas, energy and utilities issues, including transactional/contract negotiation, construction, joint ventures, projects management, product sales and supply. She has extensive experience in the secretarial management and administration of large oil and gas processing, pipeline, transportation, trading, corporate business as well as energy projects.

As Special Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, she acquired an extensive international experience and provided in-depth administrative and managerial expertise to the NNPC and the Minister of Petroleum and Energy Resources. Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup served the NNPC and Ministry of Petroleum and Energy Resources of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for twenty (20) unbroken years.  She retired from the NNPC in year 2006 and ventured into private business in the Nigerian maritime sector where she became the brain behind the huge and resounding successes of one of the leading maritime companies in the West African hub.

She is currently serving as the Executive Vice Chairman, ENL Consortium Limited, which is the entity that oversees the operational activities of Terminals C&D of the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria. Under the leadership of Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup, Terminals C&D of the Apapa Port has become one of the most efficient port terminals in Nigeria in the area of the discharge of bulk-laden ships which service ENL Consortium Limited has been carrying out with ease and remarkable efficiency.

Princess (Dr.) Vicky Haastrup’s laudable achievements and leadership qualities were recognized by fellow concessionaries when she was appointed as the Chairman of Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN).

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Dame Pauline Tallen is a woman that embodies the high and low moments. She is currently the Minister of Women Affairs, a position that has afforded her opportunity to define the future of women and girl-child in Nigeria. And she has done this creditably well within the given opportunity. She started out as an office clerk and so understands the languages and dialects of humility and grass to grace.  As a bundle of inspiration, she is your Woman of Fortune this week. With glee she says, make your week count with Paunpaulinous  gyration.

Dame Pauline Kedem Tallen OFR, is the current Minister of Women Affairs. Born 8 January 1959, she got a degree in Sociology at the University of Jos in 1982. Tallen is a native of Shendam, in Plateau State.

Tallen’s political career started in 1976, when she was a clerical officers at Shendam local government council, then later ministry of local government affairs. By 1994, she was made a Councilor in Plateau State. She was made commissioner in the state by the military government between 1994 and 1999.

In 1999, she was appointed Minister of State for Science and Technology to the cabinet of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. In 2007, she became the Deputy Governor of Plateau State and the first woman to be a Deputy Governor in Northern Nigeria. She also contested to be governor of the state in 2011, but lost to Jonah Jang. She is presently a member, board of trustee of All Progressives Congress, and was honored as woman of the year for her contribution to Nigeria at the 10th African  Icon of Our Generation Award. She is a board member of National Agency for Control of Aids (NACA).

Before the 2015 general elections, she decamped from PDP to APC, a move she believed angered some people in her state. However, she described the move as a calling from God, with no regrets. In 2015, she rejected an ambassadorial nomination by the President Buhari, citing federal character and zoning in her state as reasons.

She was married to John Tallen, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party who died in 2017. She has five children.

We present to you Dame Pauline Tallen as a member of MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame, Class of 2022.

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After the National Youth Service Corp program, she joined the law firm of Agbamuche and Agbamuche in Lagos where she cut her teeth in law practice. She later worked in various other law firms in Lagos before veering into the corporate world.

In 1995, she set up Tyse limited, a general services company with specialization is safety wares and accessories. Tyse limited has since birthed and become the parent company to several other companies including Tyse Oil & Gas Limited, an indigenous oil and gas services company involved in the downstream sector of oil/gas business in Nigeria and beyond. She is a director of several other companies with interest and activities in manufacturing, real estate, and financial services and farming. She employs over 200 staff in her various companies and businesses in various parts of the country.

She is also a partner in the firm of Igbokwe & Igbokwe & Co, a foremost law firm engaged in Corporate and Commercial legal practice in Lagos. At the law firm, she oversees the Oil & Gas, Maritime and Environment Law departments.

Augustina is the first female lawyer from her community. She was also the best graduating student and the winner of Teslim Elias price for the best student in Property and Land Law as well as in Jurisprudence at the Lagos State University (LASU).

Augustina has attended many courses, conferences and seminars both within and outside the country. Some of the notable courses/seminars she attended include:
The principles of Arbitration and Conciliation Practice in Dubai, United Arab Emirate; Fundamentals of Oil & Gas law in Brazil;
International Bar Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirate;
First Petroleum Roundtable conference in Abuja
3rd Practical Maritime Dispute Resolution Seminar, Lagos
ESQ Oil & Gas Agreements School, Lagos

As a leading woman in oil & gas she was a discussant at the first petroleum round table conference in 2007 at NICON Hilton, Abuja where issues of host community relationship with oil companies, Petroleum industry bill (PIB) and related issues were discussed.

Augustina is currently a member of the Board of Directors of National Examinations Council of Nigeria (NECO). Since her appointment to the board by the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria over four years ago, she has contributed immensely to the improvement of education, the conduct of national examinations in Nigeria and in ensuring the maintenance of standards in our educational system. As a member of the board of NECO, she has been actively involved in developing and implementing policies for the education and development of Nigerian children. She has also facilitated the engagement of many lecturers and educationists for NECO related activities and for supervision of NECO examinations. She participated in a panel of members of the Board for the restructuring of the management of NECO. She is also in the finance and supply committee as well the committee on welfare and staff discipline of the board of NECO.

Augustina is an active member of several professional organizations including the following:
Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
International Bar Association (IBA)
International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)
International Bar Association Committee on Oil, Gas and Environment Law
Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law
Nigerian Maritime Law Association
Nigeria Association of LPG Marketers
She is also a member of some notable non-governmental organizations
such as the Committee of Friends for Humanity (COFFHA). As the name suggests COFFHA is actively involved in humanitarian activities especially as it relates to women, children and the less privileged in the society. Through COFFHA, she has contributed immensely in empowering of the youth and in reducing employment. She is also focused on upliftment of the less privileged women and children across Nigeria. She was the secretary of COFFHA for four years.

She is also a member of Rotary club of Victoria Island and has through the club been involved in passion of caring for the poor and needy. She has been decorated as a Paul Harris Fellow in recognition of her significant contributions to the club and to humanity.

Aside from her humanitarian activities through the above associations, she has impacted the society in her personal capacity through her various philanthropic activities in the areas of health, poverty alleviation, education and climate change. In the area of health, she has over the years sponsored and organized mass testing of members of her community for HIV and financed the provision of anti retroviral drugs to the infected persons. She has been providing access to medical care for people who either due to ignorance or poverty are unable to access medical care. She is also involved in the provision of healthcare for elderly members of the society who lack the wherewithal to pay for medical services. At the inception of House of Gold Hospice in Surulere, Lagos she sponsored the initial surgery in Hydrocephalus (Head surgery) on a child at the Hospice.

In the area of poverty alleviation, she is personally committed to the care and upliftment of the poor and needy. To this end she established an annual event through which she distributes food, clothes and other items to the poor and particularly to widows in her community.

Her commitment to the education of the youth is worth mentioning. In this regard she has awarded several scholarships to numerous less privileged persons and has been responsible for the education of several youths in her community and the larger Nigerian society. In furtherance to her passion and commitment to education she assisted several Nigerian medical students in All Saints University, St Vincent’s and Grenadines, in the Caribbean Islands with payment of their school fees. She found that the students were stranded abroad and could not continue their education due to the failure of the government to pay their fees and bursaries.

She is an advocate of climate change and sustainability of the environment and has been involved in programmes and activities aimed at minimizing and curtailing the human activities that have been the main driver of climate change. In furtherance of these ideals, she proceeded to Harvard University School of environmental studies where she took courses in corporate and environmental sustainability. She also attended a course in integrated and organic farming in Songhai farms Benin Republic. All these led her to set up a massive organic farm of over 50 hectares at Isiwo, Ogun Sate.

Augustina is a deeply spiritual and devout Christian and is actively involved in several groups and associations within the church. She is the current chairman and co-coordinator of Unusual Praise, the largest Praise and Worship event in Nigeria. She also coordinates Unusual Entrepreneurs, an offshoot of Unusual Praise which is an economic empowerment initiative. Unusual Entrepreneurs has benefitted over 400 Nigerians since it debuted in 2018. The following budding artists and musicians – Somadins, Fabian Nwafor, Nkiru Emmanuel, Evelyn, Chukwuemeka etc are some of the talents that have emerged from Unusual Praise and Unusual entrepreneurs programs.

In the church, she is an active member of the Confraternity of Christian mothers as well as Association of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary where she has held several leadership positions.

She is also involved in various volunteer activities. Her volunteer activities include teaching in secondary schools. In her church, she is a Sunday school teacher and a coordinator of children’s Sunday school. She is also the coordinator of the children’s choir and has raised numerous children with talent and passion for music.

She is strong believer in the development of talents particularly in sports and the need to catch them young. To this end she has sponsored several youths to develop their talents in tennis outside the country. Between 2015 and 2018, she sponsored several children to participate in tennis programs in John Mcroe tennis academy in Randall Island, New York and Nike in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She also sponsored several children to a foremost youth computer academy, id tech academy Columbia University in New York which is the world’s premier destination for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) education in the US.

Based on her significant contributions to her immediate community and Nigeria as a whole, she was conferred with a traditional title in 2015. She holds the traditional title of UGOCHINYERE MBA of Umuezeala Nsu.

She is the wife of Charles Igbokwe (Barrister-at- Law) and the mother of Chinemenma, Eberechukwu and Chinazaekpere.

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