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405:, Governing Board of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Rivers State Food and Nutrition Committee, Rivers State Hospital Management Board and Reference Board DFID. She was also appointed Project Director of
303:. During her service, she assumed the positions of Director of Public Health Services, Acting Commissioner, Director-General and Permanent Secretary. She achieved prominence first in 1995, as Secretary to the
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Commissioner of Water
Resources and Rural Development
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Employment Generation and Empowerment
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730:"Banigo emerges Wike's running mate in Rivers"
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763:"Nigeria: voting begins for state governors"
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343:. In 1968, she won the
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