Governor Governor Chukwuma Soludo has congratulated Dame Virginia Etiaba on her 80th birthday today the 11th of November, 2022.
A statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information Sir Paul Nwosu said the Governor noted that Dame Virgy Etiaba, as she is fondly called, scored one of the many ‘firsts’ for Anambra State in 2006 when she made history as the first female governor in Nigeria.
The statement noted that within her short stay in office she was able to work on critical infrastructure especially roads, noting that during that brief but remarkable tenure her motherly disposition came to the fore as she signed the Anambra State Child Rights Act into law, thus creating a legal instrument to effectively check child abuse in the State.
It also said that Dame Virgy Etiaba’s exemplary work as an educationist for 35 years took her through the length and breadth of the country before founding Bennet Etiaba Memorial Schools, Nnewi which has continued to set the pace in learning.
The statement added that Governor Soludo enjoined women to emulate Dame Etiaba who has not only acquitted herself creditably as a good mother and an outstanding teacher, but also as a quintessential public servant.
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