The 2024 Role Model Ambassador of Face Of Maritime International (FOMI), Mrs. Eunice Ezeoke, the Former Assistant General Manager, Tariff and Billing of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Pastor Mrs. Funmilayo Olotu, and the President of Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA Nigeria), Dr. Mrs. Odunayo Ani, are set to lead other maritime dignitaries to Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere Lagos on Monday December 9, for a Maritime Career Talk under the Girls Go-To-Sea Campaign progamme, a pet project of the newly crowned FOMI queens.
The Maritime Career Talk which is an integral part of the Girls Go-To-Sea Campaign Project is a catch-them-young project designed to sensitise and encourage secondary school girls to take maritime career path by choosing to study maritime related courses at their tertiary education level in order to qualify for job opportunities in the maritime sector.
The project was first flagged off in June 2017 by the former Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Usman, at Osborne School Complex, Ikoyi with over 250 school girls in attendance. Since then, the organisers have visited several girls secondary schools in Nigeria sensitising the school girls on the need to take maritime career path.
In continuation of the project, the newly crowned FOMI winner, Queen Roselyn Olanisimi, is taking the Girls Go-To-Sea Campaign programme to Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School as a way of kick-starting her pet-project for the 2024/2025 service reign in line with the aims and objectives of FOMI.
About 400 senior secondary school girls are expected to be part of the programme.