Governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo (CFR), has congratulated Dame Virginia Ngozi Etiaba, the first Nigerian female governor on her 80th birthday.
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.
Within her short stay in office, she was able to work on critical infrastructure especially roads.
“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.”
“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.”
Governor Soludo enjoined other women to emulate her saying “she has not only acquitted herself creditably as a good mother and an outstanding teacher, but also as a quintessential public servant.”
He wished her long life in very good health as she joins the octogenarian age.
