Emeka Ezekwe, CEO of an oil and gas facility maintenance service group, has reaffirmed that sustainable economic transformation begins with equipping women with practical business capabilities rather than dispensing short-term interventions.
Ezekwe, a women enterprise specialist and chairman of Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce Professional Services and Consultancy Trade Group, described the initiative as a structured and measurable economic activation model.
The programme architect and coordinator of the PHCCIMA/WCCIMA Women Economic Empowerment Accelerator Programme- Cohort 1 spoke while coordinating the Cohort 1 Business Development Workshop of the PHCCIMA/WCCIMA Women Economic Empowerment Programme in Port Harcourt.
Ezekwe said the scheme was deliberately designed to move beyond conventional empowerment approaches.
According to him, the programme combines “Compassion with structure and empowerment with metrics,” providing women entrepreneurs with practical tools, mentorship and accountability systems required to build resilient enterprises.
