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Eterigho: Women's Participation in STEM Key to 2030 Agenda for SDGs

Engineers canvass quality control to curb construction failures

Engineers have advocated an improvement of quality assurance management in the building industry. They urged the private sector to be involved in building monitoring....

STEM as stepping stone for Nigerian girls

Bello committed to strengthening girl-child education — Commissioner

The Kogi STATE Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Wemi Jones, on Saturday, restated the commitment of  Governor Yahaya Bello, to

Nigeria First Female Engineer, Maduka Celebrates 80

By Funmi Ogundare The first female engineer in Nigeria and pioneer President Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), Mrs. Joana Olatunmbi Maduka is 80. An Oak Jubilee Zoom party was organised by the association in her honour with family members, friends and colleagues in the engineering profession in attendance, to wish her well. Some of the dignitaries that turned out to celebrate the woman who had impacted the field and done a lot in mainstreaming gender were; renowned industrialist and investment expert, Chief Mrs. Onikepo Akande, first female President of the Association of Consulting Engineering of Nigeria ( ACEN), Mrs. Mayen Adetiba, pioneer Vice-Chancellor, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and Crescent University, Abeokuta, Prof. Fola Lasisi, President, Nigeria Society of Engineers, Babagana Mohammed, other founding members of APWEN, among others.

Celebrating Olu Maduka, Nigeria's Oil & Gas Icon, at 80

By Chris Paul In the twilight of last week, Nigerian women in energy, oil and gas community celebrated Engr. Joanna Olutunmbi Maduka, one of the pioneering engineers, who shattered the glass ceiling and made great strides in the early days of the nation’s oil and gas industry. It was the 80th birthday celebration, on May 6, of the first female engineer to break grounds in the hydrocarbon terrain in the country. Noted for her distinguished and unique accomplishments and track record, Joanna Olutunmbi Maduka, is the first to attain several feats among the female gender of Nigerian engineers. With a B.Sc. in applied physics in 1965, she passed the Graduateship Examination of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), (UK) in 1966 and earned an M.Sc. (Engineering) degree from Trinity College, Dublin in 1969.

Group rewards three FCT women with water reservoir

FCT girls win women engineers awards

The students – Abubakar Rukaya and Atta Merit, both in JSS II, represented contestants in the North Central zone. The National President of APWEN, Engr. Funlola Ojelade said the celebration of the 2021 IWD is a call for the advancement of women and also to encourage young girls who want to be professional engineers in future. She said as professional women in the field of engineering, they have challenged stereotypes. “We have chosen school girls from the FCT and other geo-political zones to be awarded scholarships, to encourage them in their studies,” she added.

Engineers canvass equal opportunity for Nigerian women

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