Helen Esuene

Helen U. Esuene (born 23 November 1949

Background 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 an 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.

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