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Viola Onwuliri is a Nigerian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015. She was born in Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria. She attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany in 1979. She later obtained a Master of Science degree in Botany from the same university in 1982.
Onwuliri began her career as a lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1982. She later served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the university from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, she was appointed as the Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Benin. She served in this position until 2006.
In 2011, Onwuliri was appointed as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. She served in this position until 2015. She is currently the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.
As of 2021, Viola Onwuliri's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her successful career as a politician and diplomat.
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Who Is Viola Onwuliri's Husband?
Her husband is Prof. Celestine Elihe Onwuliri (m. 1978-2012)
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Viola Onwuliri Net Worth
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In 2015, the Nigerian government appointed Onwuliri as the Pro-Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University (NMU) and as its Chairman of council.
Onwuliri was the Chairperson of the African continental women's society SWAAN and worked as Principal Investigator and Project Director in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. President Goodluck Jonathan moved Onwuliri from the Foreign Office to be the Minister of State for Education in October 2014 when Ezenwo Nyesom Wike resigned.
She later became a Federal Minister with her own party and she made the news when on thursday 17 October 2013 she led the Nigeria delegation to win the seat of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in an unprecedented Global election just two years after leaving the council which was an uncommon feat that was expected to be achieved much later in around 10 years time. She was also in the spotlight when she called for Libya's ruler, Moammar Gadhafi, to resign stating that the Libyan rebel council best represented the Libyan people. The same month as Foreign Minister, she visited the scene of the Abuja United Nations bombing which killed over 20 people. She was quoted saying: "This is not an attack on Nigeria but on the global community. An attack on the world." Disaster struck with the Dana Air Flight 992 plane crash in June 2012 that killed her husband Celestine Onwuliri and over 150 others. He had been the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). As the wife of the Vice Chancellor of FUTO and the Founder and President of the FUTO Womens Association (FUTOWA) (2006-2011), she played a critical role in job creation, the development of FUTO through FUTOWA including the creation of childcare facilities for staff and students, the establishment of the child development centre and the elevation of the status of women in FUTO. She caused a stir in late 2013 as Foreign Minister when she requested that the Imo Governor at the time give an expenditure account of monies in form of allocations from the Federal Government he received on behalf of Imo State, including Sure-P Fund, Erosion control, Flood money, LGA Allocations, NDDC allocations and other Sundry monies As Foreign Affairs Minister she worked to re-establish and improve relationships with Nigerians in the Diaspora, as first step towards creating conducive environment to attract Diaspora Nigerians participation in accomplishing the Agenda of the President and to attract increased Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Direct Remittances which rose to 8billion dollars and 21 billion dollars respectively during her tenure, working to promote respect of and improve the treatment of Nigerians in the diaspora; and she became the first seating Nigerian Minister to be officially hosted at the esteemed historically Black University, Howard University.. As Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs she served from 11 July 2011- 22 October 2014 which included serving as the State-1 Minister and then the Supervising Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2013 and 2014 before being moved to the Education Ministry as its State-1 Minister.
In 2013, she won the chairmanship of the GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa. Later that year, she received the 'European Union Honorary Platinum Leadership Award in Politics on 28 November 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden.
In 2011 she was a candidate to be a deputy governor of Imo state and ran with Gov. Ikedi Ohakim, after they lost the election she was offered a Cabinet position as Commissioner by the opposing party Governor Rochas Okorocha but she politely turned it down to the surprise of many
In 2004 Viola became the first Nigerian and first African female to be elected member of the Geneva based International AIDS Society (IAS) and became its African regional representative from 2004 till 2008 and reelected in 2008 for another four years.
Viola returned to Nigeria where she took a job as a graduate assistant in 1981; in 2004 she became professor of Biochemistry 2004 at the University of Jos. During the period she and her husband, Celestine Onwuliri, had five children.
Viola Adaku Onwuliri (born 18 June 1956) is a university professor of Biochemistry and politician who served as Nigeria's Foreign Minister.
Viola Onwuliri is the first daughter of the Royal Family of His Highness Eze Cletus and Ugoeze Dorathy Oparaoji of Amuzi, Ahiazu Mbaise LGA, Imo State. She hails from Ahiazu Mbaise in Imo state, Nigeria and was born in Lagos in 1956. She attended Owerri Girls' Secondary School before the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she achieved a 2nd Class Upper 2:1 in Biochemistry. She also attended the University of Jos where she achieved a PGCE, an MSc in Applied Organic Chemistry and a PhD in Molecular Biochemistry. She then went for certificate courses at Howard University and Harvard School of Public Health in the USA.