She has many titles and nicknames such as; Erelu, Mother-General, Oluomo, Ochiora etc. She is the wife of the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. She turns 60 today, June 11, 2023. I have been waiting for this day to say something about this wonderful woman. Though I have written a lot about her on her birthdays either when she was in government or outside. We […]
She has many titles and nicknames such as; Erelu, Mother-General, Oluomo, Ochiora etc. She is the wife of the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. She turns 60 today, June 11, 2023. I have been waiting for this day to say something about this wonderful woman. Though I have written a lot about her on her birthdays either when she was in government or outside. We have come a long way and our relationship remains as solid as ever.
She has won many accolades for this humanitarian pastime and she has been recognised by many communities outside her native Ekiti State and internationally. She did a lot to help many vulnerable women and girls. One of this was the chieftaincy title of Ochiora of Umezi Owa in Enugu State in 2008. The meaning is “leader of the people”.
The former Ekiti First Lady had been a gender specialist right from her youth and she got better with this noble pastime as she grew older. The opportunity to do more of this came when she became wife of Governor in October 2010 and for the second time, in October 2018. She launched The Ekiti Development Fund in 2011, a platform through which she assisted many categories of women, giving them grants and tools to improve their businesses.
Erelu Bisi Fayemi was given the “Changing the Face of Philanthropy” award by the Women’s Funding Network in 2007, and was named one of the 20 most influential African women in 2009 by New African magazine. In 2011, Women Deliver listed her as one of the top 100 people in the world, advancing the rights of women and girls. In 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Zik Leadership Prize for humanitarian Leadership by Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre .
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