Women are key to poverty eradication in Nigeria — Onari Duke

Onari Duke, the former first lady of Cross River state, is a legal practitioner, an entrepreneur, a certified mediation/dispute resolution consultant and philanthropist. She is the managing partner of the law firm of Duke&Bobmanuel and serves as the executive Chairman of Allied Merchants & Brokers limited, a merchandising and brokerage firm.
Mrs. Duke also serves as a country Director of Empretec Nigeria foundation, a United Nations centre for trade& development (UNCTAD) private sector support initiative to help Nigerians achieve higher levels of productivity and competitiveness among small and medium- scale enterprise. In this interview with Esther Onyegbula, she talks about what she has been up to since she left the Cross-Rivers state government house.