Category: Awards

Mrs. Amosun paid a condolence visits to the Ikoyi house of late deputy governor of Ekiti State, Mrs. Funmilayo Olayinka, in Lagos on the 9th of April, 2013. The husband of late deputy governor, Mr. Lanre Olayinka, received Mrs. Amosun. She described the late deputy governor as a believer of gender equality and women empowerment initiatives, saying the late deputy governor led an exemplary life worthy of emulation. The wife of the former governor described her as a dynamic banker who believed in the overall development of our society, thus her entrance into political terrain to contribute her quotas towards the nation building. She prayed God to give the husband and the children the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

Mrs. Amosun was on the 1st of May, 2013 was honoured in Johannesburg, South Africa for her various initiatives aimed at uplifting and empowering women, youths and children in Ogun State. Mrs. Amosun was conferred with the 2013 Distinguished Women Advancement Forum-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Leadership Award for her projects anchored on the actualization of MDGs in Ogun State. The award was given to the Wife of the Former Governor at the just concluded Women Advancement Forum held at Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa and was handed over to Mrs. Amosun by the President, United Nations Women (National Committee) in Canada, Ms. AlmasJiwani. Organizers of the event described Mrs. Amosun as a compassionate mother who is always available to uplift and empower the needy and vulnerable people in the society. In a statement by the Partner/Consultant, ABN Global Events, Mr. Charles Chikezie, “the empathy of Mrs. Olufunso Amosun to support and care for the needy and vulnerable in Ogun State has come to our notice. You have distinguished yourself among millions of women in Nigeria with genuine concern to uplift and empower people irrespective of their backgrounds.” Receiving the award, Mrs. Amosun described the honor conferred on her as recognition of good work she’s doing in Ogun State and this would spur her on to do more. Mrs. Amosun through her Uplift Development Foundation has initiated programmes like UPLIFTing the Aged, UPLIFTing SS3 Students, UPLIFTing Women, UPLIFTing Widows, UPLIFTing the Unemployed Graduates, UPLIFTing Physically Challenged, Free Eye Camp, UPLIFTing U-15 Grassroot Football, Uplift Food Outreach, Empowering Female Traders, Empowering Youths through Beautification, UPLIFTing the Environment amongst others.

Wife of the Former Governor o Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun was honored with 2013 City People Award for Excellence as the Best First Lady of the Year on the 31st of March, 2013. The event, which was held at Balmoral Event Centre in Lagos, was witnessed by creme-la-creme in the society. The organizers described various initiatives of Mrs. Amosun and her contribution to the development of humanity as second to none. Receiving the award, Mrs. Amosun described the honor conferred on her as a recognition of her contribution towards humanity, saying the award would further encourage her to do more. Mrs. Amosun through her Uplift Development Foundation has initiated programmes like UPLIFTing the Aged, UPLIFTing SS3 Students, UPLIFTing Women, UPLIFTing Widows, UPLIFTing the Unemployed Graduates, UPLIFTing Physically Challenged, Free Eye Camp, UPLIFTing Under-15 Grassroot Football, Uplift Food Outreach, Empowering Female Traders, Empowering Youths through Beautification, UPLIFTing the Environment, Cancer and Cervical Awareness & Screening Exercise and among others. Other awards given to the wife of the governor included Nigerian Nursing Excellence Award held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on the 18th of July, 2012; 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award in commemoration of University of Lagos at 50 on the 27th of July, 2012; Young Achievers Award held at Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos on the 17th of October, 2012; and 2013 City People Award of Excellence held at Balmoral Event Centre, Oregun Road in Lagos on the 31st of March, 2013.

Complete Integration and Emancipation of Women: Road Map to the Actualization of Millennium Development Goals” was the theme of the conference at the 2013 Women Advancement Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 2nd of May, 2013. Women from all walks of life from all the African continents across the globe were in attendance and deliberations were very meaningful and worthwhile. Mrs. Amosun who attended the conference explained that women emancipation would remain a mere slogan or at the peripheral of matters unless women are properly integrated into the society and given leadership role. We must adopt practical approaches by taking concrete steps to give adequate recognition to women and give them greater roles to perform in our quest to develop our society. This forum has given us the opportunity to ventilate our deeper thoughts and ideas with the hope of aggregating them for action plans and implementation,” she said. The Wife of the Former Governor stated that gone are those days that women were happy to watch men put on their suits and head to the office, while they wear their house-coats, stay home and keep house. “Our women no longer desire to take the back seat or remain irrelevant or invisible like yesteryears,” she noted. As a Guidance Counsellor by profession I would like to mention that while we wait to attain those leadership roles, we shouldn’t fold our hands and bow our heads in despair. I am a stickler for vocational training and believe that the best way to empower a woman or girl, besides education or in addition to education is to teach them a skill. If you have a skill you can survive if you are not lazy,” she said, adding that “you can perfect whatever skill it is you acquired and you will never be shoved aside or left behind. Your skill if perfected will be sought after, will feed you, will free you and will get you noticed and make you a force to be reckoned with in your locality or beyond,” Concerned about where the deliberations at the conference would go from here, the wife of the governor stressed that there was no excuse not to follow up on the deliberations of conferences like this, she highlighted the fact that “A lot of us attend conferences, make promises, resolutions and believe we have found solutions but on leaving the conferences all is lost and it becomes a wasted effort. May I suggest that we always remember to put a time frame or time limit for our set goals to be achieved.” “We have to take a step further by nominating a few leaders among us to harness our expectations and desires and take them to the doorsteps of African leaders who will (with enough persuasion) act upon our requests.” The conference happened to fall on Mrs. Amosun’s birthday and it was a beautiful moment when unknowingly to Mrs. Amosun, the women in attendance chose one of the tea breaks to transform the conference room into a birthday hall, hastily putting banners up and wheeling a birthday cake in! Mrs. Amosun was stunned, elated and appreciative when she walked back in, thinking they were reconvening only for cheers of ” Happy Birthday” to fill the room! She felt highly honored that such important women across the globe would go through so much effort to celebrate her birthday with her. As if this wasn’t enough of a high point, on day 2 of the conference, during the awards night dinner, Mrs. Amosun was honored with an award, in recognition of her fulfilling and meeting the 7 millennium Development Goals, under Uplift Development Foundation, she again was highly touched and elated.

The Wife of the Former Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun had been colorfully decorated as the Grand Patron of the National Council of Women’s Societies of Nigeria (NCWS). As the Council’s Grand Patron, she is seen as a leading light that will exemplary show other women the right path to follow. She had also been decorated as the Grand Matron of Ogun State Cooperative Federation Limited (OSCOFED). As a passionate apostle of empowerment and upliftment programmes, she has been bringing into forebear her determination to really empower women. As the Grand Patron of Nigeria Girls Guides Association Ogun State Chapter, Mrs. Amosun has a onerous task of sustaining the ideals and values of the Guide as a voluntary organisation. Being a Counselor herself, the award of the Grand Matron of Ogun State Chapter of Counselling Association of Nigeria (CASSON) did not come to many as a surprise. If anything, the award has thrown more challenge at the Wife of the Former Governor of Ogun State to take the Association and the profession to the next level. Also, as the Grand Matron of Home Economics Teachers of Nigeria (HETAN) Ogun State Chapter; the Grand Patron of Immigration Officers Wives Association (IMMOWA) Ogun State Chapter and Grand Patron Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) Ogun State Chapter and Forum for Local Government Nurses and Midwives, Ogun State Chapter, Mrs. Amosun has a duty to bring into bear her expertise to move these associations forward. At every single occasion, Mrs. Amosun took her campaign of offering a helping hand to the less privileged and charting a new cause for taking Ogun State to the next level. During her investiture as the Grand Patron of the Immigration Officers Wives Association at the Valley View Auditorium, lsale-lgbein, Abeokuta, Wife of the Governor of Ogun State reiterated her commitment towards uplifting the less privileged in the society. She said empowerment programmes should be aimed at giving hope to the less privileged and empowering them to be self independent and self-sufficient. Mrs . Amosun charged the Association to intensity their effort at encouraging young ones to contribute their quota towards the development of our economy and build a better Nigeria.The Comptroller General Nigeria Immigration Service, Mrs. Rose Uzoma, represented by the Zonal Coordinator of the Service, Zone A (Lagos), Mr. Anthony Oklobia assured of her readiness to assist the Association in the realization of its objectives. Also speaking at the occasion, the state chairperson, IMMOWA, Mrs. Chinyerem Anike-Nweze said the main goal of the IMMOWA was to create a genuine sisterhood that could complement their husbands’ effort in stemming the increase of illegal migration by providing support for the less privileged people in the community. She decried the dehumanizing and hardship that young Nigerians living as illegal migrants experience in their quest for greener pastures abroad, disclosing their intentions of providing vocational and educational opportunities for the youth and women to enable them earn a living. Appreciating the Wife of the Former Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. AnikeNweze noted that the Association had named their lndomie Kitchen empowerment programme after her in recognition of her support and laudable empowerment projects for youth and women in state and the scholarship scheme to be named after the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service. Mrs. Amosun also used her investiture ceremony at the Valley View Auditorium, lsale-lgbein, Abeokuta to urge the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Ogun State Chapter to make health-care delivery more effective by providing high quality service that is humane, efficient and affordable to improve human life. She added that the ceremony was another call to service for female medical practitioners to contribute their quota towards the Mission to Rebuild Ogun State. She appealed to members of the Association to focus on intervention programmes like community-based health care and health awareness that could help reduced the need for some of the hospital bills, saying the state government would continue to map out strategies aimed at taking the health sector to the next level. “As your motto indicates Matris animo currant (healing with the spirit of mother), you should strive to accomplish your Association’s mission of improving the health status of the entire society, especially as it concerns women and children, while encouraging the progress and relevance of female doctors,” she said. The Wife of the Governor of Ogun State, who was honored as the Association’s First Grand Patron at the occasion, noted that the health sector was an important area the present administration in the State is giving utmost priority and therefore challenged the Association to join hands with government to guarantee quality health care delivery. In her acceptance speech as the first President of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) Ogun State Chapter, Dr. (Mrs.) Winifred Adenuga said the formation of MWAN in Ibadan in 1976 was to address the high rate of maternal and infant mortality in the country and the discriminatory attitude towards members. female doctors as well as the low esteem of women. She pledged the readiness and determination of the present executive to wholly commit themselves to the principles and ideals of MWAN which include the promotion of women’s health and improving the professional development and growth of all members. During her investiture ceremony at Progress Hall, South-west Resource Centre, Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta as the Ogun State Patron of the Nigerian Girl Guides Association, the Wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Amosun advocated more role for the Nigerian Girl Guides Association, describing the association as a change agent that should be supported by all and sundry. According to her, “As a voluntary organisation open to all girls, young women and adults regardless of their religious, ethnic, linguistic and political affiliations, the Nigerian Girl Guides Association has become a very important environment to promote positive values in our girls,by encouraging them to be their best and providing them opportunities to make a difference in their human endeavors.” “It has also become an avenue, with a global