TOP MARITIME WOMEN IN NIGERIA
Chinwe
work, prof essionalism,
creativity and good morals.
Ijeoma Abama
D
r. C h i n we l j e o m a
Abama is the General
Manager, Office of the
Managing Director, Nigerian
Ports Authority (NPA).She holds
a medical degree from the
College of Medicine, University
of Lagos. She is an
ophthalmologist and an
accomplished administrator in
the medical sphere. Prior to her
appointment as General
M a n a ge r, O f f i c e o f t h e
Managing Director, Dr. Abama
was the Head and first female
General Manager of NPA's
Medical Division. has impacted positively on their
level of awareness in disease
prevention, lif estyle
modification with increased
productivity. As Head of the NPA
Medical Division, she paid
particular attention
sensitisation and screening
exercises for prevention of the
workforce against hepatitis,
meningitis, cervical cancer,
HIV/AIDS and vaccinations
where applicable. She and her
team also made rigorous efforts
towards the control of
hyper tension and malar ia
among the NPA employees.
Chinwe has passion for people-
centred health activities which
prompted the implementation
of several health programmes in
the Nigerian Ports Authority for
the employee wellbeing, which Dr. Abama is very resilient and
keys into oppor tunities in
b u i l d i n g t a l e n t s t h ro u g h
mentoring and coaching in
everyday practice by
exercising the virtues of hard
She is a member of the
American Academy of
Ophthalmology, a member of
the American Association for
P hy s i c i a n L e a d e r s h i p, a n
alumnus of the prestigious
Lagos Business School (LBS) and
a member of the Women in
Logistics and Transport
( W I L AT ) wh e re s h e wa s
conferred with an award of
"Role Model" in June 2015.
She attended annual meetings
of the European Association of
Study of the Liver (EASL) in
B a rc e l o n a , S p a i n i n 2 0 1 2 ;
Amsterdam in 2013, and also
participated at the Global
Hepatitis Summit 2018 in
Toronto, Canada where she
signed up for NOhep Medical
Visionary – a global movement
to eliminate viral hepatitis by
2030. She also attended several
programmes in healthcare
quality and safety management
as well as in leadership and
management.
Her vision is to improve and
e n h a n c e t h e we l l b e i n g o f
women through education with
meaningful interactive
relationships that engender
modification in lifestyles with
emphasis on vocation.
Presently she serves as the
G en er al M an ager,
Monitoring and Regulatory
Services where she
coordinates and monitors
compliance and regulatory
activities of the Authority's
concessionaires.
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