Director GMIL
Amb. Angela Tony-Iji is a media practitioner, with a passion to impact her generation, driven by the desire to mentor, empower youths, women and children through initiatives geared at bringing meaningful development and positive change. She is a serial entrepreneur and a social crusader.
She is the CEO of Jela projects Limited, a company that handles both media consulting and publishing, training and general contracts as well as bakery and lounge, she’s an event manager, organizer and mobilizer extraordinaire. Highly experienced in social sector activities.
She is the founder SEED Rehabilitation Foundation involved in rescuing of trafficked girls/children as well as campaigning against all forms of human trafficking, child labour, violence against women, and other forms of modern slavery ravaging her immediate community and region, as well as caring for the indigent and voiceless in the society.
She’s the convener of Lagos women Dance, the largest women fitness fiesta in Africa, an initiative that bring women together annually and periodically to destress, celebrate women, sensitize women on fitness, health, business self love and networking tagged “from fitness to business”
She has held various positions and performed meritoriously in the discharged to her duties to the various media and corporate organisations worked for.
The Top10 Magazine and Leadership Newspaper as a general manager southern operation and as director Business Development and special projects as well as program consultant at center for values in leadership.
She is a graduate of Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto, with BA in Literature in English, Diploma in Mass Communication and Higher Diploma in Mass Communication from Benue state University and Usman Danfodiyo University Sokoto respectively.
As a humanitarian, she is ever willing to sacrifice time, talent, treasure and other resources in the service of humanity and the betterment of society.
Her interest lies in volunteering her talent, time and treasure in all following areas of peace programs/projects, including but not limited to: Community Development; International Harmony and Cultural Understanding; Peace building and Conflict Resolution; Good Governance and Human Rights; Gender Mainstreaming and Social Protection; Skills Acquisition and Youth Empowerment; Entrepreneurship and Job Creation; Human Development Issues; Environmental Sustainability and Food Security. A passionate grass roots personality.
She organises an annual cooking competition and other skill acquisition by her NGO called Igede Agba cooking competition to empower young Igede girls to discourage them from migrating to other cities where they are being used as domestic help, prostitutes, molested and at times killed. She has come to the rescue and empowerment of such stranded and lost girls at the Lagos end at various times.
She is a wife, biological mother of two handsome boys and other children who prove themselves worthy of being called sons and daughters. She works tirelessly to rescue situations, she’s a workaholic and good at everything she chooses to do per time.