Nigeria, April 2 -- Ibilola Amao is the Principal Consultant at Lonadek Global Services. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mrs Amao shares her journey, challenges as a woman in leadership, and commitment to empowering the next generation of women in STEM and beyond.

PT: Can you tell us about your professional journey and how you became a CEO? Mrs Amao: I am a Civil & Structural Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD). After training with Babie, Shaw & Morton Consulting Engineers in the UK, I returned to Nigeria for my NYSC and, by coincidence, set up Lonadek.

I am a Chartered Engineer with core expertise in Engineering Technology, Asset Performance Improvement, and Information Management.

I am a Fellow of...