{"id":8059,"date":"2017-01-17T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=8059"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:13:41","slug":"egwu-eunice-ukamaka","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/egwu-eunice-ukamaka\/","title":{"rendered":"EGWU, Eunice Ukamaka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State of Origin: Ebonyi Contact Address: Government House, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State Contact Telephone: 234-043- 221015 MrsEuniceUkamakaEgwuwas an icon long before she rose to limelightas the First Lady of Ebonyi State. She was a role model, a good and committed teacher, whose sincerity and humility remained intact even after she found herself as Her Excellency. She did not allow absolute power to rob her of her characteristic fear of God, virtues of womanhood, devotion and commitment to service and transparent honesty of a teacher. Absolute Power corrupts absolutely, but in the case of Eunice, we have found it not to be so. We want to avoid sycophancy of the type opportunity seekers present to those in power and present the REAL EUNICE not artificial Superwoman a creation of Sycophants. She was born into a disciplined puritanical honest family of Chief Ogbaekiriegbe of Ntusurakpa Fzzamgbo. The moral education inculcated in her at the Sharon Secondary School Izzi blossomed when she came lo see her self in lop executive post in the school system as Principal, in the UNICEF and finally in the State I louse as the wife of the Executive Governor. This initial solid moral background has helped her like the Biblical Queen Esther, to avoid the temptation ol” vanity in the type of position she is today. She gave her life as a Christian at the age of 12. Schools Attended \u2022 Practising School Ezzamgbo FSLC \u2022 Iloly Child Secondary School. Sharon. Izzi \u2022 University of Nigeria Nsukka Diploma in Education \u2022 Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. B. Ed in Educational Administration and Supervision Job Experience \u2022 Secondary School Teacher \u2022 Principal Girls High School E\/.illo in Ishielu Local Government Area. Ebonyi State \u2022 UNICEF Desk Officer, in the UNICEF Assisted Project in the Ministry of Education \u2022 Founder and Chief Executive of Widow Care Foundation- an NGO Contributions to the Society \u2022 As a teacher- helped to touch many young souls in each school she taught \u2022 Lived a moral life style for the girls in her school \u2022 As Principal of School, proved a Role Model for both staff and students \u2022 As the Proprietor and Chief Executive of an NGO. Mrs Egwu used part of her personal savings to boost the business of the widows in the Widow Care Foundation. Contributions as First Lady of the State \u2022 Construction of Ebonyi State Women Development Centre (WDC) \u2022 Family Law Centre, a shopping complex. \u2022 Centre for skills acquisition, a model Nursery and Primary School. – Hope for the Child Nursery and Primary School \u2022 Evangelism on Wheel to all Secondary Schools- for Moral Rehabilitation of the Youths Provision of Mobility Aids to many handicapped Ebonyi people- scholarship to some people \u2022 Visits and maintenance to orphanages and similar places \u2022 International Link with Foreign Charities for the good of Ebonyi underprivileged. \u2022 Cottage industries for knitting, sewing, cobblers,soap and pomade making, fabrication of wheel chairs, weaving, \u2022 1lonest use ofexecutive resources for purely humanitarian purposes and not political gimmicks \u2022 Lived by her own example as a virtuous woman. Awards and Honours \u2022 Genuine recognitions of her work and worth have from truly honest groups and organisations from within and outside Nigeria. \u2022 The Florence Nightingale Award from the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and midwives Ebonyi Stale Branch. \u2022 A Golden Award from the Women Without Frontiers in the Aelenic Republic of Greece \u2022 Award of Excellence by the Presidency Nigeria \u2022 Award of Excellence by Federated Abakaliki Women Association ( FAWA) \u2022 Aprestigious Awardof the National Council of Women Societies ( NCWS) Nigeria \u2022 A Paul Harris Fellow ( PHF) Award, of the Rotary Club District 9140. Abakiliki South \u2022 Award of Excellence by the City People Magazine \u2022 Gold Leadership Award by Times International \u2022 Distinguished Community SERVICE award by the inner Wheel District 914 \u2022 Award of Excellence for Humanitarian Service by the FMF ( International Female Ministers Forum) \u2022 Awardof the “Best First Lady in Nigeria 2005” among the Governors’ Wife by City People Magazine \u2022 ManyChieftaincy Titles likeNnedi Ohu Ninaof Ebonyi State, Ugo Chinyere I of Onicha. Ugegbe I ofIgbo asaa, EzeNwanyibit ikeof Ubeyi, Omeludo ofNgbo Eji Ogu. She is a passionate family lady of quintessence who is married to Dr Sam Egwu. the Governor of Ebonyi Stale and they are blessed with five children. She is indeed an Icon of a ModestWoman who refused to be corrupt in an age wherevanity is the norm for most people in authority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8059","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8062,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8059\/revisions\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}