Stella Effa-Attoe has emerged as the National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Gatekeepers News reports that Effa-Attoe was elected through consensus on Saturday during the just concluded National Convention of the party in Abuja.
Professor Effah-Attoe is a Professor of African History and Gender Studies in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, and the 79th Inaugural Lecturer of the University of Calabar.
She was employed by the University of Calabar in February 1986 as Lecturer II in the then Department of History and rose to the peak.
She was a beneficiary of the 2014 – TETFUND grant to attend the Africa Conference 2014 held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 3rd – 5th April 2014. Professor Stella Effah- Attoe is a Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management of Nigeria (FIAMN); Qualified and Incorporated Administrative Manager (QIAM); 21st Century Trust Fellow, London; and a Senator of the United Nations International Parliament for Peace and Safety.
She has served the University in several other capacities including Head of Department of History and International Studies between 2002 and 2003, member, University of Calabar Contact Committee (2005-2010); Chairman, Local Orgnising Committee of the International Conferences of the Department of History and International Studies Conferences Committee (2017-present); member, Intellectual Property Policy Committee (2017- present); Chairman, faculty of Arts Investment Committee (2017), permanent member of University of Calabar Senate (2017); Chairman, Board of Directors, Voice of Nigeria between 2009 and 2010; member, Federal Housing Authority Board (2005-2006); member, Governing Council of the national Health Insurance Scheme (2000-2003); member, National Governing Board, National Youth Service Corps (2013-2015) and ,many others.
Professor Effah-Attoe has successfully supervised over seven (7) Ph.D dissertations, twelve (12) MA theses. She has been Graduate School Representative in Graduate dissertation/thesis defense in other Departments in the University of Calabar and served as M.A and Ph.D external examiner at various Universities.
