Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani has been appointed as the new coordinator of the Ondo State secretariat of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
A seasoned Public Relations practitioner, Ani is from Enugu State, and had her early education at Community Primary School, Idedu Amokwe, between 1970 and 1975.
She proceeded to Queen of the Rosary Secondary School, Nsukka in 1976 and obtained her West Africa School Certificate in 1981 after which she enrolled at Institute of Management Technology, IMT, Enugu, for her Ordinary National Diploma in Mass Communication.
She later went to Anambra State University of Sciences and Technology (now ESUT) for a degree programme in the same course.
She also obtained an MSc in International Relations from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka 2009.
After her first degree, administrator obeyed the clarion call and was mobilised and subsequently deployed to Lagos State during the 1992/93 service year for the mandatory one year service to the fatherland.
Her place of primary assignment was the Corporate Headquarters of the Nigerian Breweries Plc, Iganmu, Lagos, where she distinguished herself as ‘baby image maker’ but who today has become a successful guru in Public Relations.
Her foray into the public service started in 1993 when she was employed by the National Youth Service Corps as Public Relations Officer II and worked at the Directorate Headquarters until 1995 after which she was transferred to NYSC FCT secretariat.
There, she learnt the rudiments of the Public Relations practice on the field until 2004.
Her second journey to the Directorate Headquarters occurred in 2004 where she stayed till 2017 and sharpened her image making skills.
After acquiring broad knowledge under different seasoned administrators, the management asked her to proceed to NYSC secretariat in Enugu as Head, Press and Public Relations in 2018.
A devout Catholic who is widely travelled, Ani is lover of good music and enjoys travelling and reading among other things.
The new coordinator for Ondo State is married to a retired Director of NYSC, Ozo Anthony Chinwuba Ani, who is generally regarded and accepted as architect of modern NYSC because of the innovations he brought to the scheme when he was in the service.
They are blessed with four children.
The twentieth Chief Executive Officer of the scheme in Ondo State and the seventh female to be so appointed, her philosophy of life is live and let others live.
She also belives that everyone is important and deserves respect.
The new coordinator holds the traditional title of Lolo having been married to a community leader and grassroots mobiliser who holds the prestigious title of Ozo in Igbo land.
