Nigeria: Ezekwe Champions Results-Driven Women's Enterprise Accelerator

Group CEO of an oil and gas facility maintenance service company and Chairman of Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce Professional Services and Consultancy Trade Group, Emeka Ezekwe, has reaffirmed that sustainable economic transformation begins with equipping women with practical business capabilities rather than dispensing short-term interventions.

Speaking while coordinating the Cohort 1 Business Development Workshop of the PHCCIMA/WCCIMA Women Economic Empowerment Programme in Port Harcourt, Ezekwe described the initiative as a structured and measurable economic activation model deliberately designed to move beyond conventional empowerment approaches.

Ezekwe who is also the Program architect and Coordinator of the PHCCIMA/WCCIMA Women Economic Empowerment accelerator Programme- Cohort 1, said the programme combines "compassion with structure and empowerment with metrics," providing women entrepreneurs with practical tools, mentorship and accountability systems required to build resilient enterprises.

"A woman who earns consistently stabilises a family. When 60 women earn consistently, communities are transformed," Ezekwe stated.

Ezekwe disclosed that the accelerator incorporates business tracking mechanisms, mentoring frameworks, performance evaluation and clearly defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), with targets of achieving at least 70 per cent business survival and expansion, alongside projected income growth of 40 per cent among beneficiaries.

Declaring the workshop open, President of the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA), Dr. Chinyere Nwoga, reiterated the Chamber's commitment to advancing women-owned enterprises as critical drivers of economic growth and community development. She emphasised that empowering women through enterprise development remains central to PHCCIMA's mandate of promoting inclusive and sustainable prosperity.

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