Helen Esuene

Helen U. Esuene  (Mabi 23 ochu'ẹgwaka ọdọ 1949) i chẹn'ẹka efu amibo ku ma chukọlọ gọmẹti eyi Nigeria iko igbele kuma du ña Minister efu State eyi Añọla nwu, alu ki la dẹpẹ gẹ ma du ña Minister eyi ogbegbele ma'nyu unyi efu Cabinet eyi President Olusegun Obasanjo Alimeji ọdọ 2005 kpai ọdọ 2007.

Ogbegbele nwu
Esuene took a course in Confidential Secretaryship and Office Management at the Federal Training Centre in Kaduna and started her civil service career as a confidential secretary. Later she did a distance course from the University of Leicester and obtained Msc in finance. Shortly after she married the former military governor of the old Cross River State, Chief Udoakaha Esuene, who died in 1996. They had two girls and three boys. She went into business, starting with human resource management for Mobil Producing. Later she started what became Villa Marina Hotel in Eket, opening in 2000. She built an art gallery as a memorial to the over 59 women gunned down by the Colonial Lords along Consulate road in Ikot Abasi during the 1929 women protest.

Obasanjo cabinet
Esuene was appointed Minister of State for Health in July 2005. She was appointed Minister of Environment in January 2006. After a cabinet reshuffle in January 2007, Esuene was given an expanded portfolio as Minister of Environment and Housing. She left office in May 2009 at the end of the Obasanjo administration.

Senate
Helen Essuene was the candidate for the Senatorial seat of Akwa Ibom South in the April 2011 Nigeria general elections, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP platform).

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Category:1949 births
Category:Living people
Category:Alumni of the University of Leicester
Category:Federal ministers of Nigeria
Category:Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria)
Category:Senators of the 7th National Assembly (Nigeria)
Category:Women government ministers of Nigeria