Unarguable a household name in African entrepreneurship circles, founded LEAP (Leadership Effectiveness Accountability Professionalism) Africa – an organization that has gone on to train several thousand young Africans on core leadership issues and has in addition erected a compact platform for monitoring their utilization of those values – in 2002. In the same year, she equally founded Ndu Ike Akunuba (NIA), meaning Life, Strength, Wealth – a non-profit group committed to the empowerment of female University students born in her native south-eastern zone. At 29 years in 2004, she became one of the youngest recipients of Nigerian national honour, Member of the Federal Republic (MFR).

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