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• Daisy Ehanire Danjuma was born on August 6, 1952, in Benin-City, Edo State.

• She attended Government Secondary School in Benin-City, before studying at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where she graduated with a LLB in Law in 1976.

• In 1977, she was called to the Nigerian Bar as a practising lawyer.

• She undertook her national youth service as a State Counsel with the Ministry of Justice of Lagos State, and was a legal counsel to the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria. She worked as an Executive Assistant at the Nigerian Acceptances Limited (NAL), a Merchant Bank, from 1977 to 1978. She was Company Secretary/Legal Adviser to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) from 1982 to 1992. Danjuma was elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2003-2007) representing Edo South.

• Daisy Danjuma is a Nigerian politician who was the senator representing the Edo South Senatorial District of Edo State at the Nigerian Senate from 2003 to 2007. As a senator, she served as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs and Youth Development; Member, Senate Committees on Health, Education, Finance and Land Transport.

• She is happily married to a former minister of defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), founder of the oil exploration company, South Atlantic Petroleum.

 

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