The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) is a non-profit, non-governmental, educational service organization and a division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). It is an umbrella body for female engineers covering all engineering disciplines.
Our mission is to stimulate women engineers to achieve professional growth and to provide a mentorshipplatform for women engineers as well as to be a potent voice for the advocacy to get the Girl-Child to take up the study ofScience,Technology, Engineering and mathematics (STEM) tailored towards the Engineering profession.We have mappedseries of programs to achieve our goal including the “Invent it ,Build it “scheme. The target is the Girl-Childin upper primary school (classes 5 &6).
We celebrate Nigerian women whoare pressing for the progress of the emergent Nigerian Woman.
We plan to recognize female engineers who have distinguished themselves in the profession as well as other illustrious females in sundry professions, who have impacted our advancement as a society and have thus, become worthy examples of inspirational figures for the Girl-Child.
As we (APWEN) celebrate these eminent women, we are full of hope that more women would follow in their footstepsby exploring and exploiting local and global opportunities to attain new heights and raise the bar in their chosen fields. Competence, collaboration, performance and moral courage, are the watchwords.
Todays’ celebrants have attained the status of role models based on their professional track record, experience and commitment to the advancement of their professions and indeed our society at large.
Award Date: March 8 (Thursday), 2018
Venue: Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Alausa, IKeja, Lagos
