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First Lady's Profile |
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OVERVIEW |
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Mrs. Ekaette Unoma Godswill Akpabio was born on the 9th of June 1971 to late Godwin
and Beatrice Nkemdilim Ejike both of Ozom Aguobu-¬Owa, Ezeagu Local Government Area
of Enugu State.
She attended Zik Avenue Primary School, Enugu before proceeding to City Girls Secondary
School, Enugu for her West African School Certificate Examination, Ekaette Unoma
Akpabio obtained a degree in Education Accounting from the Abia State University,
Uturu, Abia State. She is a devout Catholic and very devoted to the Blessed Virgin
Mary.
She has a mission to empower women, alleviate poverty, encourage youths who are
disillusioned and give the disabled a sense of belonging.
Since the assumption of her role as the First Lady of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Akpabio
has given of her time, energy and resources to the poorest and otherwise excluded
groups in the State. She has established the Family Life Enhancement Initiative,
as a not-for-profit organization to promote the well being of the families which
she is trying hard to sensitize in order to reposition them for the moral good of
the society.
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HUMANITARIAN WORK |
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Apart from women, children and young people who constitute the stated targets of
Mrs. Akpabio's work, she has also created a big social impact on the lives of the
physically challenged, the motherless, the hospitalized, the homeless, the elderly
and the prison inmates in the State.
For the physically challenged children in the State, Mrs. Akpabio, the loving and
kind mother of Akwa Ibom State has come to their support in very reasonable and
characteristic ways. On one occasion, she presented 40 wheel chairs, 15 tricycles,
40 pairs of crutches, 20 Braille machines and cane sticks to handicapped children,
selected from special schools and communities in the 31 Local Government Areas of
the State. Mrs. Akpabio has continued to offer the hand of support to other disadvantaged
people by donating computer sets as well as the mobility and visual aids.
The First Lady has been open-handed to many needy persons and groups but her kindness
towards a blind, Mr. Noah Jonah of Inem Ikot Ibiom in Oruk Anam Local Government
Area and Mr. Cosmas Okon Edem, a homeless father of six children in Ifa Ikot Okpon,
Uyo Local Government area, has been quite profound.
Mrs. Akpabio, through the Family Life Enhancement Initiative built a four bedroom
flat for Mr. Edem and a four-room apartment to house the blind man and his family
of four. Three more of such buildings are currently under construction for some
other families without accommodation in other Local Government Areas as part of
the Governor's benevolence which is expected to spread to the entire 31 councils
in the State.
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Succour has also been provided by the Governor's wife for the patients of the Leprosy
Hospital, Ekpene Obom, Etinan. She makes available a monthly allowance of N100,000.00
for the feeding of the lepers and other members of the hospital community there.
As part of her Prisons intervention programme 26 prison inmates have been freed
from incarceration while about 200 inmates of Uyo and Ikot Ekpene Prisons have received
useful training. The training has been undertaken through the skills Acquisition
Programme which teaches economic skills and value re-orientation that seeks to recondition
the inmates for life outside the Prison walls and discourage them from activities
and conducts that took them to the Prisons in the first place.
Her Excellency has received many honours including Patron, Widows Right Advocacy
Network, Grand Patron anti-child trafficking club, Patron Akwa Ibom State Joint
Association for Handicapped persons.
Her Excellency loves reading, travelling and philanthropy.
She is happily married to His Excellency, Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom
State with lovely children.
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