Meet Elected National PDP Women Leader Professor Stella Effa-Attoe

On Saturday, during the party’s just-concluded National Convention in Abuja, Effa-Attoe was elected by consensus.

Professor Effah-Attoe is a Professor of African History and Gender Studies at the University of Calabar’s Department of History and International Studies, as well as the university’s 79th Inaugural Lecturer.

She started as a Lecturer II at the then Department of History at the University of Calabar in February 1986 and advanced through the ranks.

She was a beneficiary of the 2014 – TETFUND grant to attend the Africa Conference 2014 held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 3rd – 5th April 2014.

Professor Stella Effah- Attoe is a Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management of Nigeria (FIAMN); Qualified and Incorporated Administrative Manager (QIAM); 21st Century Trust Fellow, London; and a Senator of the United Nations International Parliament for Peace and Safety.

She has served the University in several other capacities including Head of Department of History and International Studies between 2002 and 2003, member, University of Calabar Contact Committee (2005-2010); Chairman, Local Orgnising Committee of the International Conferences of the Department of History and International Studies Conferences Committee (2017-present); member, Intellectual Property Policy Committee (2017- present); Chairman, faculty of Arts Investment Committee (2017), permanent member of University of Calabar Senate (2017); Chairman, Board of Directors, Voice of Nigeria between 2009 and 2010; member, Federal Housing Authority Board (2005-2006); member, Governing Council of the national Health Insurance Scheme (2000-2003); member, National Governing Board, National Youth Service Corps (2013-2015) and ,many others.

Professor Effah-Attoe has successfully supervised over seven (7) Ph.D dissertations, twelve (12) MA theses. She has been Graduate School Representative in Graduate dissertation/thesis defense in other Departments in the University of Calabar and served as M.A and Ph.D external examiner at various Universities.

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