Chief Ijeoma Uche-Okoro is the Director Legal Service of the Federal Ministry of Transportation. She is a Woman of no mean carriage. She exudes confidence and grace. She is in charge of her briefs always and plays a team game. Her resolve to ensure that the Rotterdam Rules were ratified by Nigeria spoke so much about her determination to succeed. She mobilized all the human and material resources to stage a move. What a good Journey! Ijeoma! This is a case of brain and beauty. Some people are gifted with physical beauty and lacking in inner beauty. Ijeoma evidently is rich within and without .So what do you say? Ijeistic Ijoma! It is her wish that you remain on the path of good journey this week.

Since 2014, Chief Ijeoma Uche-Okoro has served as the Director Legal Services, Federal Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry’s representative on the Board of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). Ijeoma Uche-Okoro started her career in the public Service with the Federal Ministry of Justice in 1987. In 30 years, she has built a career that is first among equals. She has worked in various Sectors of the public Service while being primarily a Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice. Between 1987 and 1992, she served at the Department of civil Litigation and Public Law-Federal Ministry of Justice Adviser; between 1992 and 1997, Assistance Legal Adviser-Federal Ministry of Power and Steel; and 1997 and 2000, Department of civil Litigation and Public Law-Federal Ministry of Justice. Before then, Chief Mrs. Uche-Okoro served for two years between 2000 and 2002 as Legal Adviser to the Presidential Liaison Officer, House of Representative National Assembly Earlier, she was Legal Adviser, Federal Ministry of Health 2002-2009; Legal Adviser-Federal Ministry of Information and Communication 2009-2011; Legal Adviser-Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs 2011-2014, and today, she is Director Legal Service-Federal Ministry of Transportation since 2014. Mrs. Uche-Okoro has served as a member and Chairman of several Ministerial Committee as well as a member of various Presidential and Inter-Ministerial Committees.

At different times, she has also served on the Boards of Federal Medical Centre-Lokoja (2003-2009), Nigeria Shippers’ Council(2014-2015), and on account of her professional learning, she is a member of the Nigeria Bar Association, International Bar Association, among others. In appreciation of her enormous contributions to the development of the Legal practice in the Public sector and dedication to human value development, the Board of Trustee and Council of MMS Woman of Fortune Hall of Fame inducts Chiefs Mrs. Ijeoma Uche-Okoro as a member