It is 30 Years of making me LAUGH.
It is 30 Years of telling me, “Baby, raise your hands and take down that roof!”
The times I say, “But I can’t”, you jokingly rebuke me and say, “Baby, YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST!”. You gave MEANING to ME! https://t.co/EbXVLJlAyj
Chidimma Ezekwesili @Chidiezekwesili
Replying @Obyezeks and @neduezeks
Happy wedding anniversary. You both have been shinning lights especially to the us the younger ones. May your lights continue to shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day. May you both continue to stand perfect and complete in all of God's will for your lifes. 🤗🤗🌹🌹
Ndidi Okokwo Nweneli
@Oby Ezekwesili replying to @ Obyezeks
Congratulations to our dear auntie and uncle! Thank you for showing us how to love through your love for Christ and each other!!! @obyezeks 30 years is an amazing accomplishment. Here is to another 50 of love and laughter!
Ekiti
@ Ekitiete replying to @ Obyezeks
Congratulations, ma'am. Many more joyous years to both of you.
Lara - David Odofuf CPHR/HPRM -SCP
@nicoley2k1 Replying to @ Obyezeks
Now I see why you really rock and why you are such a powerful change agent by God’s grace. You have a solid support system! Cheers to many more years!
Gameliel & Susan Foundation
@GamsuF Replying to @Obyezeks
Oby Ezekwesili Biography – Age, Father, Family, Hometown
Obiageli Ezekwesili is a Nigerian chartered accountant from Anambra state popularly known for the BringBackOurGirls campaign which went viral on social media. She was a co-founder of Transparency International, serving as one of the pioneer directors of the global anti-corruption body based in Berlin, Germany. She equally served as Federal Minister of Solid Minerals and then as Federal Minister of Education during the second-term presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo.
She was born on April 28, 1963 in Anambra State. Ezekwesili holds a master’s degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, as well as a Master of Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She trained with the firm of Deloitte and Touche and qualified as a chartered accountant.
She is married to Pastor Nedu Ezekwesili of the Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG) and they are blessed with two children.
Prior to working for the Government of Nigeria, Ezekwesiili was working with Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the Center for International Development at Harvard.
Ezekwesili began her political career in the Olusegun Obasanjo administration as the Pioneer head of the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit (aka Due Process Unit). She served as the Vice-President of the World Bank’s Africa division from May 2007 to May 2012. It was in this position that she earned the sobriquet of “Madam Due Process” for the outstanding work she led a team of professionals to do in sanitizing public procurement or contracting at the Federal level in Nigeria.
She was the architect of the Bureau for Public Procurement legislation, the NEITI legislation and the new Minerals and Mining legislation then during Olusegun Obasanjo's era. In june 2005, she was appointed Minister of Solid Minerals (Mines and Steel) and led to Nigeria’s global recognition as a credible mining investment destination. She was also the Chairperson of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and led the first ever national implementation of the global standards and principles of transparency in the oil, gas and mining sector.
In June 2006, Ezekwesili was appointed the Federal Minister of Education, until she took up her World Bank appointment in May 2007. In March 2007, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz announced the appointment of Ezekwesili as Vice-President for the Africa Region starting on 1 May 2007.
In 2012, she successfully completed her tenure as the World Bank Vice-President Africa Division. She was also a senior economic adviser for Open Society, a group founded by billionaire George Soros, she advises nine reform-committed African heads of state including Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia.
On 1 October 2012, she was named a director at one of the world’s leading telecommunications firm, Bharti Airtel, with operations in 20 countries. She is also on the boards of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the School of Public Policy of Central European University, The Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy, New African magazine, The Center for Global Leadership at Tufts University.
Ezekwesili received several awards including an honorary Doctor of Science (DSC) degree by the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta in Nigeria. She was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2014.
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