The death has been announced of the mother of former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), Madam Regina Achi Nentui and his my mother-in- law, Mrs Ethel Onono.
Aged 90 years, Achi Nentui , a one-time Chairman of old Ikom County Council (now Ikom, Boki & Etung Local Governments) 1960 – 1963, she passed on Wednesday 1st July 2020, according to an obsequies by the Ndoma-Egba/Nentui families of Akparabong and Ikom, Cross River State.
She will be buried in a low key ceremony according to her wish on the 4th of August 2020 in Ikom in compliance with extant government protocols on Covid-19 pandemic.
Her body will make a brief stopover at the Ikom Local Government Headquarters, Ikom, before proceeding to the Holy Family Catholic Church, Ikom for a requiem mass followed by an interment strictly for family members.
She was among the first women from old Ikom (now Ikom, Boki and Etung Local Government Areas) of Cross River State to receive western education. She spent many years as a teacher with the Roman Catholic Mission before transferring to the Civil Service of the then South Eastern State (now Cross River and Akwa Ibom States) in 1968 during the Nigerian Civil War as a social worker. She established the Remand Home in Ogoja.
She retired in 1991 to a quiet life in Ikom, her home town, busying herself with Roman Catholic Church activities, community service and farming.
She is survived by three biological sons, Chief Kenneth Effa, a retired Executive Director, Bank of Industry, Sen.Victor Udoma-Egba and Roy Ndoma-Egba, a Development Specialist and former Special Adviser several times in the Cross River State Government.
She is also survived many grand children and great grand children including her step children include Professor Rowland Ndoma-Egba, the entire Ndoma-Egba clan and many others.
Remarkably, she was elected as Chairman of the then Ikom County Council (now Ikom, Boki and Etung Local Governments) on the platform of the defunct NCNC and served as such from 1960-1963, making her the first female Chairman of a County Council (now Local Government) in the defunct Eastern Region of Nigeria, and indeed, the entire Country. She was inducted in 2019 into The Hall of Fame by the National Centre for Women Development.
For madam Ethel Onono, she will be buried in Onitsha on August 7, 2020 after a funeral mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church,, Onitsha, Anambra state.
According to Mr Thomas Nwachukwu Onono, who issued a statement on behalf of the family, her interment will be attended by family members only.
Describing her as a remarkable woman, he said in observance of the COVID-19 protocols the burial will be devoid of ceremonies.
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