Senator Margery Chuba-Okadigbo, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was presented to her during the 2023 Strategic Women in Energy, Oil and Gas Northern Summit, which was put together as part of the activities marking this year’s International Women’s Day, with the theme, ‘The Limitless Woman: Leveraging Innovation and Technology.’ The event took place at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua centre in Abuja last week.
Chuba-Okadigbo was honoured in recognition of her invaluable contributions to the ongoing commercialisation of the NNPC Limited and her contributions to various industrie spanning over four decades.
The new awardee dedicated the award to the board of directors and management of NNPC Limited. She appreciated the group for the honour, while making a case for the development of data-driven systems for measuring gender equity in the Nigerian energy sector, so as to appreciate the extent of the challenge and end the gaps.
Senator chuba-Okadigbo is a seasoned lawyer, an entrepreneur and a former legislator who represented Anambra North Senatorial District as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria between 2011 and 2015. She was the Vice-Chairman Health Committee and member of numerous committees such as SURE-P, Environment, Judiciary, FCT, Aviation and Constitutional Review. She had headed several committees and parastatal before she was appointed to the board of directors of NNPC.
