Girls Go-to-Sea campaign: Ezeoke, Olotu, Odunayo to lead talks at Lagos school

Stanley Ihedigbo

2024 Role Model Ambassador of Face Of Maritime International (FOMI), Mrs. Eunice Ezeoke; Former Assistant General Manager, Tariff and Billing, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Pastor Mrs Olotu Funmilayo and President, Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA Nigeria), Dr Mrs Odunayo Ani are set to lead other maritime dignitaries to Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere Lagos on December 9.

The event, a Maritime Career Talk under the Girls Go-To-Sea Campaign progamme, a pet project of the newly crowned FOMI queens.

The Maritime Career Talk, which is an integral part of the Girls Go-To-Sea Campaign Project, is a catch-them-young project designed to sensitize and encourage secondary school girls to take maritime career path by choosing to study maritime-related courses at their tertiary education level to qualify for job opportunities in the maritime sector.

The project was first flagged off in June 2017 by former Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, at Osborne School Complex, Ikoyi, with over 250 school girls in attendance.

Since then, the organisers have visited several girls secondary schools in Nigeria sensitizing the school girls on the need to take maritime career path!

In continuation of the project, the newly crowned Face Of Maritime International, Queen Roselyn Olanisimi is taking the Girls Go-To-Sea Campaign progamme to Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School in Surulere Lagos as a way of kick-starting her pet-project for the 2024/2025 service reign in line with the aims and objectives of FOMI.

About 400 senior secondary school girls are expected to be part of the program.