The Girls in Vitality Community (WIEN) has known as on its members to stay revolutionary of their enterprise growth abilities to help Nigerian vitality panorama.
The group expressed its want to strengthen partnerships and actively take part in a number of vitality conferences, exhibitions, and trade occasions.
The WIEN mentioned it’s going to proceed to form the way forward for the vitality trade, making it extra inclusive, revolutionary, and sustainable within the coming yr 2026.
That is regardless of the Community re-electing Eyono Fatayi-Williams as president to steer the group’s affairs for the following two years.
On the 4th Annual Basic Assembly 2025, held in Lagos, WIEN ratified the brand new executives, expressing enthusiasm within the growing variety of girls in management positions within the midstream and downstream, whereas the proportion within the upstream can also be rising.
Talking at a press convention previous the AGM, Fatayi-Williams said that the group had grown in measurement, significance, and affect over the past 5 years and is dedicated to persevering with to create a platform for ladies to excel throughout the vitality worth chain.
“Whereas we have a good time our successes, we additionally acknowledge the challenges that stay. Our story continues to be being written. The following chapters have to be bolder, louder, and much more impactful. The journey is ongoing, and there may be nonetheless a lot work to be carried out”, she said.
Waiting for 2026, she inspired all members to proceed dreaming massive, setting daring and defining targets, and breaking via glass ceilings.
Echoing the numerous progress in membership, Fatayi-Williams mentioned WIEN has surpassed the 1,000 mark, reaching a formidable 1,108 members.
In line with her, the company membership can also be rising with 4 new company members welcomed this yr: Company NNPC Retail Restricted in February, Lonadek International Providers in July, Tenaris Nigeria in August, and TotalEnergies final month.
Amongst its important neighborhood impacts, she mentioned, WIEN had in 2025 prolonged its sensitisation to the grassroots with STEM-focused profession gala’s in Lagos and Port Harcourt for women in authorities secondary colleges. By means of profession talks, hands-on classes, and interactions with feminine function fashions, we opened doorways of risk for younger ladies, serving to them see vitality and STEM not as distant goals, however as attainable futures.
She added: “WIEN’s affect inside the Nigerian vitality panorama was strengthened via its continued partnerships and energetic participation in a number of vitality conferences, exhibitions, and trade occasions.
“As well as, WIEN participated in key stakeholder engagements, together with the NCDMB Stakeholders Engagement Discussion board and the CGE Africa Stakeholder Dialogue, guaranteeing girls’s voices stay current and influential in nationwide and continental vitality coverage conversations,” she said.
She pressured that the group’s promotion of ladies’s participation and management within the vitality sector includes equipping them with the abilities, insights, and confidence to excel.
“This yr, WIEN delivered a sequence of masterclasses, webinars, and well being talks overlaying subjects akin to Life After Subsidy, Monetary Administration for Proprietor-Managed Companies, Finance Funding, Cybersecurity, FIRS e-Invoicing, AI, and Psychological Well being and Hormonal Administration. These platforms have helped construct capability and foster mentorship, networking, and actionable studying for our members.
“In September, WIEN had the distinction of paying a courtesy go to to the workplace of the Particular Adviser to the President on Vitality. This engagement was each productive and strategic, resulting in the event of a database of women-owned companies that the federal government can promote, in addition to figuring out girls prepared for board and government management positions.
“WIEN deepened its help for women-owned and women-led companies via a brand new partnership with eTranzact Worldwide Plc, certainly one of Nigeria’s main fee and know-how infrastructure suppliers. By means of this partnership, our company members and enterprise house owners will profit from discounted charges for the FIRS e-Invoicing resolution.
“This partnership displays our shared dedication to empowering girls in enterprise, easing the price of compliance, and strengthening the competitiveness of women-led enterprises in Nigeria’s evolving digital financial system,” she said.
The manager secretary, WIEN, Asanimo Omezi, mentioned the group additionally has a sequence of programmes lined up for 2026 to empower girls to have the ability to attain strategic positions within the oil and gasoline worth chain.
Omezi mentioned the Community is at present working with the workplace of the particular adviser to the President on Vitality to develop a database of women-owned companies that the federal government can promote, in addition to figuring out girls prepared for board and government management positions.
The chairman, Board of Trustee, WIEN, Dr. Cecilia Aqua-Umoren, mentioned the previous yr has been certainly one of progress, strategic engagement, and continued visibility for WIEN throughout the vitality sector.
“Our programmes, partnerships, and advocacy efforts have additional cemented our function as a number one voice for gender range and inclusion inside Nigeria’s evolving vitality panorama,” she said.
Aqua-Umoren applauded the executives for his or her excellent achievements.
The newly elected executives are: Eyono Fatayi-Williams (President); Ihuoma Chukwuka (Board Secretary); Dorothe Eboh (Academy Director); Lola Oyenekan (Enterprise Improvement and Publicity Director); Adebisi Adeola (Finance Director); Rita Obiageli Kwentoh (Sponsorship Director).
Others are: Yetunde Odejobi (Vice President- Gasoline); Bassey Adie (Conferences and Partnership Director); Ifeoma Ukabiala (Vice President, Upstream); Damilola Owoloabi (Membership Director); and Sherifat Adegbenro (Vice President – Energy and Renewables
