Governor Monday Okpebholo has appointed seasoned and respected  lawyer, Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo, as the Director General of the Edo State Health Insurance Scheme.

Ikpea-Enaholo is a highly resourceful individual who worked at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) as Principal Legal Officer before her foray into business. She is an intellectual with academic exposures locally and internationally.

Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo’s appointment as the DG of the Edo State Health Insurance Scheme testifies of her exceptional accomplishments while she served at NIMASA and strides as a businesswoman after she briefly left public service.

The masters degree holder in Maritime Law founded the Royal Oaks Events Centre located in the Lekki axis of Lagos State in 2019, and has built it into one of the leading events centres in Nigeria within few years despite being known an expert in the maritime sector. For her First Degree , Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo’s possesses a Bachelor of Law Degree (LL.B.) from University of Kent, Canterbury, in the United Kingdom.

She is a holder of Master of Law,  Maritime Studies,  International Maritime Institute, Malta, from 2013  to 2014.

She also has a Master of Law,  Maritime Law Enforcement,  University of Bristol from 2005 to 2006.

Her First Degree, a Bachelor of Law,  University of Kent at Canterbury, was gotten from 2002 to 2005.

For her A levels, Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo graduated from Padworth College for Girls,  England from 2000 to 2002.

With such high level qualitative education under her belt, she possesses the requisite ingredients necessary for her to make her next point of service a distinguishing one. In fact, with her appointment, Governor Okpebolor has scores a major point, as Ikpea-Enaholo brings her full weight of experience, knowledge, expertise and links to bear positively on residents of Edo State.

As a player in the events industry before her latest appointment,  Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo,  introduced new ideas and trends that best suited her clients. She literally took events-hosting to new dimensions in the country. According to her, she assembled “a strong team of experts in different sections of the event industry and we try to develop and test possible event trends and ideas that will not only suit us but our clients as a whole.”

Ikpea-Enaholo’s journey in both public and private sector is an inspiration to aspiring young entrepreneurs and leaders. She has demonstrated that quality service delivery is her passion. Over the years, she has mounted her pedigree and reputation as someone who is consistently able to achieve her goals despite obstacles and opposition; determined, ambitious, and always prepared to work hard to succeed.

She will bring a new dawn into the commission to guarantee Edo residents quality and top-notch service delivery in the state’s health insurance scheme, to achieve the Universal Health Coverage goals and provision of adequate financial access to healthcare. More so, much will be accomplished in reducing out-of-pocket spending for the people and improve their access to effective, efficient and sustainable healthcare.

Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo’s perspective and philosophy about confronting challenges in whatever form they come will be the game changer in the state’s health commission. The lawyer brings the business mindset into every bit of her work space, revealing that “each challenge I face is more like an opportunity to further improve on my customer service and quality of my service delivery.”

As the Director General of the Edo Health Insurance Commission, Augusta Ikpea-Enaholo, who has a compassionate disposition to persons, is expected to transform her new place of work into a thriving and qualitative organization.