Onyeka Onwenu’s Midas touch

Whenn music cum screen diva, Onyeka Onwenu was appointed Director General of the National Council for Women Development (NCWD), some people felt that she deserved much better. For them, not only is the ‘Elegant Stallion’ highly educated with a Master’s degree in Media Studies, she is also a mega star who deserved a bigger portfolio.
On the contrary, others welcomed Onyeka’s appointment as the NCWD boss, saying she is a natural women’s rights advocate.
Truly, through her music and the roles she eloquently portrays in Nollywood films, Onyeka never fails to pass the message that women should be well treated, even as she always emphasises that women can as well deliver the goods in whichever vocation they find themselves. Folks then posited that the talented singer and actress would be like fish in the water at the NCWD. And this is not farther from the truth going by her achievements so far.
A visit to the once moribund Women Development Center shows that major renovation work is ongoing. Beyond the face-lift, lots of people will agree that Onyeka has brought intellectualism to gender issues, just as she is using star power to glamourise events organised by her agency. The topnotch packaging of this year’s edition of the International Day of the Girl Child held a few weeks back is a good example of the new way things are done at the National Council for Women Development.