Banigo Assures On Support For Female Professionals, Entrepreneurs

Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo has reiterated her commitment to support female professionals and entrepreneurs to make impact in the society.
She stated this whiling playing host to members of the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria (SWAN), Port Harcourt Chapter, at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The Deputy Governor, who said she would continue to partner with the Society of Women in scholarship for female students, expressed delight that the students who are already on scholarship are doing well in their academics, noting that the award of scholarship to the girl-child was part of the initiative of the Deputy Governor’s Office to protect and empower the girl-child.
She also expressed her willingness to partner with SWAN in providing entrepreneurial skills for women, stressing that all hands must be on deck to impact positively on the society.
Banigo thanked members of SWAN for congratulating Governor Nyesom Wike and herself on their second term in office, nothing that the Wike-led administration would continue to protect the interest of the Rivers people at all times.
Earlier, the Chairperson of the State Chapter of SWAN, Mrs. Chinedu Nwachukwu, who said they were at the Government House to felicitate with Wike and Banigo, thanked the Deputy Governor for supporting SWAN’s Scholarship Programme, which enabled it to continue to pay for children in two homes of the needy in Port Harcourt.