19/04/2023
THE SUCCESS STORY OF DR. MRS FAVOUR UGWUANYI IN PPSMB AND HOW EDUCATION WAS TRANSFORMED IN GOV. IFEANYI UGWUANYI'S ADMINISTRATION
By Odogwu Akin
*Malcolm X* says that Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” The future of Enugu State will be brighter with the remarkable achievements of *Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* in the Enugu state's education sector.
Enugu state was not among the top 10 States with the best WAEC performance, not until when *Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* worked tirelessly to see Enugu state ranked No1 State with the best WAEC performance in Nigeria.
*Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* is a successful woman. She is a goal-getter. A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.
*Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* was distinguished for numerous excellence. She was a classroom teacher at Prince Memorial High School in Old Anambra State School Board from 1988-1992.
From 1992-1994, she worked in the Enugu state Laison Office in Lagos. She was in charge of maintenance work in the Enugu State Governor's lodge at Park View Ikoyi Lagos, the office location was at Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island Lagos.
After her robust achievements in the Enugu state Laison office in Lagos, she came back to Enugu state to work at the Enugu state government house where she served in the ministry of local government as the HOD local government coordinator from 2000-2012.
From Jan 2012 to June 2012, she served as an Admin Officer in Forestry Commission Enugu state.
From July 2012 to July 2015, she served as an Admin Officer and a committee secretary in the Enugu State House of Assembly.
From 2015 to May 2022, she was the Permanent Secretary of PPSMB.
In 2023, she was the first female Mni to be made the chairman of PPSMB ENUGU STATE after her retirement in 2022.
The achievements of *Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* in the Enugu state education sector are so numerous to mention, but I will mention a few of them.
She was the first female chairman of PPSMB to host the 1st Teacher's Summit in Enugu state with Digital Professors and skilled resourceful speakers.
She also organized a 3-day Residential capacity building workshop for all the 300 principals of Enugu state with the *NIPSS MANAGEMENT TEAM* which has never happened in Nigeria before. All with the support and approval of the present government of *H.E. Rt Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi,* the executive governor of Enugu state.
Since when she became in charge of PPSMB, you can hardly see teachers and principals lazing about in the state because she is always there to monitor the school activities.
Other achievements of her administration are the following:
1. Restoration of morality in schools across the state.
2. Restoration of teachers' attendance in classes.
3. Data collection in schools
4. Payment of salaries is up to date.
5. Promotion of teachers is up to date.
6. Training of tutorial and non-tutorial staff in PPSMB like drivers, securities, teachers, directors, principals, and CSPs.
7. Skill festival- one student one skill in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
8. Installation of CCTV in volatile secondary schools.
9. Renovation of many dilapidated public schools in Enugu state.
10. New projects include:
➡️ Staff canteen/open Sheraton
➡️ Gym center
➡️ A wellness center or sick bay
➡️ ICT high equipped with 60 computers
➡️ Construction and equipment of Corper's lodge
➡️ Fully air-conditioned devotional conference hall at PPSMB headquarters
➡️ Newly modified administrative building
➡️ Stocking up Gss Owere-Eza Orba with kitchen utensils and equipment
➡️ Construction of PPSMB computer hub
➡️ A newly constructed parking lot for the staff of PPSMB
➡️ Construction of a *Student's Parliament.* A 3000-seater auditorium for students engagements and conferences auditorium
➡️ Repair of damaged school buses
➡️ Scholarship for indigent students across the state, etc.
All these achievements of *Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* ought to be celebrated, instead of celebrating her milestone achievements, some agents of destruction rather resolved to libel and lampoon her with the intent to defame her.
*Rihanna* said something that intrigued me, she said, "There's something special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer."
*Dr. Mrs. Favour Ugwuanyi* is a woman of integrity. A counselor, a prudent woman who makes it her constant rule to follow the road of duty, according to truth; and the voice of her conscience points it out to her. She is not guided merely by affections which may sometimes give the color of virtue to a loose and unstable character. The upright woman (Dr. Mrs. Ugwuanyi) is guided by a fixed principle, which destines her to do nothing but what is honorable, and abhor whatever is base or unworthy; hence we find her ever the same in the positions she held in Enugu state. She is all times a trusty mother, an affectionate administrator, a conscientious woman of God, a pious worker, and a public-spirited citizen of Enugu state, Nigeria.
The sublime summary of the honest life of *Dr. Mrs. Ugwuanyi* satisfies the mind craving for a higher good, and bathes it in the cool waters of peace on earth; till it grows into the full stature of wisdom, reckoning its own by the amount of happiness it has bestowed upon others.
I won't be wrong to address Dr. Mrs. Ugwuanyi as "Her Excellency" because there's no excellence without labor. Her labor of love to serve humanity is felt by all and sundry in the Enugu state education sector.
Her success story cannot be complete without the help of God who made it possible for her to achieve what others failed to achieve.
Thank you and God bless you!!