Tuesday, September 29, 2009

About Me



Friends call her mother Theresa, Counselor, Good Samaritan, “Obama Mrs.” and a voice for the Edo youths and Nigeria at large. Elizabeth Era was born in Ibadan in Oyo State, of Nigeria. She hails from Esan West Local Government Area, Ekpoma, in Edo state.

She did her primary education in Army Children Primary School Benin City, Edo State, where she obtained her School Leaving certificate in 1992, wrote her common entrance exams and got admitted into Secondary school.

Elizabeth has always been a leader right from her Secondary school days, she was an office girl in her JSS1 and a member of Federal Road Safety Club(FRSC), she was a Special Marshal and also the secretary of the organization at City Institute of Commerce in Edo, she later left for Modern Secondary Commercial School in Uyo Akwa Ibom State where she wrote her Junior School Certificate Examination(JSCE) and was later given the post of her school time keeper in SS1 and also the class captain of her class in SS2, she later became the school’s senior prefect in SS3. while in Secondary School in Uyo, she was also member of some remarkable organizations and also held some posts in these organizations. She was the provost and later became the secretary of Save The Children Campaign Organization (STCC), a very strong member of Student Union Fellowship that changed the lives of so many students in her school during her time in that school, she was the head of the debate team in her school from SS1 to SS3 and never lost any competition both within and outside the state, all through her tenure as the head of debater’s club in her school. All these positions wouldn’t have been possible but for hard work and her dedication to her studies and crave to serve humanity and to make a remarkable difference amongst her pairs.

She attended expert computer college in Edo state where she obtained her first Diploma Certificate in introductory computer science in 1999 to 2000, later went for Diploma in Desktop publishing and computer Science in Vienna Computer College in Edo State, from 2000 to 2001. She got admission into the University of Benin in Edo State, where she studied Banking and Finance from 2001 to 2004.

She later wrote JAMB in 2005 and got admission into the University of Uyo, Akwa ibom State, where she is presently, as a final year student in the department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, UniUyo. She was FACE OF NIGER DELTA (FOND) 2006 in her 200 level and was the founder and initiator of THE ACTIVE YOUTH ORGANIZATION OF NIGERIA (TAYON) which was her pet Project, after she had handed over the crown to her successor in 2007. TAYON till date is still functioning in the University of Uyo before she later went for a tv reality show programme that was organized by HiTv and D’Banj known as KOKOMANSION TV REALITY SHOW.