Mrs funke osibodu biography sample

  • Mrs Osibodu is the first female to hold the position of Managing Director /CEO of a bank in the country.
  • I was born on 11 January 1959 in Lagos to a family of diverse origins.
  • Week's Spotlight shines on Funke Osibodu, a trailblazing financial leader who made history as the first female Managing Director of Union.

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    Enabling , Empowering Women for a Greater Lagos

    SATURDAY PERSPECTIVE 

    By Babajide Sanwo-Olu

    Let me say, since I started my campaign for the office of Governor of Lagos State, inom have enjoyed tremendous support from across the social, economic and political spectrum.

    This also includes my engagements with women in various organisations and groups that have declared support for me including Amazons, which is a group of women in various professions. I therefore take this opportunity to express my gratitude to you –  women – for your unflinching support.

    My mothers, friends and sisters, a society that ignores more than half of its population, which are women cannot be a progressive one. It is gratifying that since the Beijing Conference of 1994, when former US First Lady, Hillary Clinton rightly declared that Human Rights are Women’s Rights and Women’s Rights are Human Rights’ the world has made much progress in addressing social, economic and cultural barriers that

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    The Death of A Sense of Outrage

    culled from GUARDIAN, August 17, 2005

    Many years ago I made a commitment, part of relief for the debt I owed a society that helped me discover myself. It was to strive, as best my abilities allowed to unearth those things that defined the Nigerian condition in which human progress has come much more slowly than elsewhere, in spite of resource endowments. The deal was to use whatever I learnt to initiate action, for change even if small and only within my limited space.

    I have komma up with a few factors I consider definers of the Nigerian condition and have done a few things in response to the covenant I entered into. Last weekend a completely new variable which I had always seen but never managed to pay much attention, jumped to the fore of my consciousness. It is the death of a sense of outrage, or even discomfort with simple disorder, in contemporary Nigerian culture. It happened as I set out with some young dock and women under the watchful eyes

  • mrs funke osibodu biography sample

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    Funke Osibodu is a veteran management guru and Director at Vigeo Power LTD, one of the leading private sector companies changing the landscape of electricity distribution and infrastructure in Nigeria. Olufunke Osibodu had always known she wanted to be a banker. She went for her dream and made it big, in the process heading several positions in a number of top-notch banks. But this was not all: she also became very instrumental in the introduction of several banking innovations in Nigeria. She continues to play relevant roles in Nigeria’s financial sector.

    Birth, Background and a Balance

    I was born on 11 January 1959 in Lagos to a family of diverse origins. My mother, Muriel Marion Johnston, came from two country lineages – Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Her mother was from the Efik ethnic group of Cross Rivers State, Nigeria, while her father was an immigrant from Sierra Leone. My father also had roots from two different countries, namely Nigeria and Brazil. His father’s Nigerian ance