Women Issues Communication Services Agency
... empowering women to succeed
... empowering women to succeed
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The Wise People of WICSA
WICSA is run by a crop of volunteers below:
JOY KESHI WALKER - FOUNDER, CEO
Joy Keshi Walker is an advocate and international communication consultant to governments and non-
governmental organizations globally that promote women’s issues. In 1998, she founded a non profit
organization, “Women Issues Communication Services Agency (WICSA)” an interventionist group
dedicated to bridging the communication gap between advocates of women issues and their target
audience using the Arts.
WICSA developed educational Art exhibits and lecture series that have traveled worldwide. The
exhibits have shown in Africa, British, European and German (Bundestag) Parliaments with positive
results. Joy worked in conjunction with FORWARD GERMANY, to take the exhibits all over the
world.
Since coming to the United States from Nigeria, Joy has worked as a teacher and a vacation guide and
earned an Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2008.
She enjoys spending time with her children and volunteering in her church.
What I learnt from the Exhibition
The critical path to freeing women, especially from developing nations, is through financial
independence attained by job training and self-sufficiency programs.
MABEL OLUFOLAKE SOMORIN (Mrs) - Copy Director/ Lowe Lintas
A graduate of Communications Studies from Aberdeen College, Scotland, Mrs. Somorin also holds a
Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising Administration from Watford College Herts, England.
A seasoned creative thinker with cutting edge copywriting skills, Mrs. Somorin parades an impressive
portfolio with wide ranging creative experience on diverse multi-national and local brands.Having
previously worked in two top Nigerian Advertising Agencies, she joined Lowe Lintas in May 1994and
has attended creative management and leadership courses in Nigeria and has been exposed
tointernational TV shoots in London, UK and Cape Town South Africa.
Presently Mrs. Somorin is a Copy Director in Lowe Lintas and a full member of the Advertising
Practitioner Council of Nigeria (APCON).
A founding member of W.I.C.S.A – Women Issues Communications Services Agency , Mrs Somorin
continues to organize programs that focus on stopping unhealthy widowhood practices as well as end
prostitution.
Career High points:
• Led the Lowe Lintas creative team to win the Nigerian Breweries Pitch and sustain the account
in Feb. 1999.
The lead copywriter on the Lowe Lintas team that won a Bronze medal for Maltina “Sip It” campaign
at the maiden edition of the LAIF Awards (Lagos Advertising and Ideas festival) in June 2006Mrs.
Somorin is a full member of the Advertising Practitioner Council of Nigeria (APCON). Mabel is
married with children.
• Made a presentation during the WICSA forum at the conference of Women in Africa and the
African Diaspora (WAAD) at IUPUI Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
CHI - CHI ANWULI KESHI
Under Construction
IFEANYI ADA MAHA
Ifeanyi Ada Maha - Usifoh is an attorney, who holds a bachelors and masters degree in Law from the
Universities of Benin and Lagos respectively (both in Nigeria) and was called to the Nigerian Bar in
1987. She has a hands on post qualification experience of well over twenty two years spanning
investment banking, strategy development & implementation, Trusteeship, Pensions, Human Capital
management, commercial legal practice (with a bias for secured credit transactions) and human rights
advisory services. With a keen eye for opportunities to deepen her skill curve, Ifeanyi has attended a
broad spectrum of training programs and workshops that cut across her career path.
Ifeanyi has actively participated in a number of the self regulatory organizations in Nigeria. She is a
Fellow and Council member of the Association of Pension Funds of Nigeria. Her other professional
memberships include the Chartered Institute of Management of Nigeria and the Direct Marketing
Institute of Nigeria. She has served on various Committees of the Association of Corporate Trustees,
Association of Issuing Houses (Underwritters) of Nigeria and the Nigerian Securities & Exchange
Commission’s Capital Market Committee’s Sub Committee on the Reactivation of the Nigerian Bond
Market.
Presently, Ada is the Managing Director/CEO of Fruitful Gleans Limited, an ago - allied company.
Her wealth of experience continues to enhance the talent pool of Eterne Asset Managers Limited,
where she chairs the company's board. Her board memberships also include companies in the
engineering, textile and real estate sectors.
In the course of her career, she was an Executive Director in FutureView Financial Services Limited
and Greenwich Trust Limited, both renowned Nigerian investment banking companies. Penultimate to
which she was the Managing Director/CEO, Cornerstone Trustees Limited and the Executive
Director of its subsidiary company – Cornerstone Leasing & Investments Limited. Both companies
being subsidiaries of Cornerstone Insurance Plc, a top Nigerian publicly quoted insurance company.
For well over six years alongside being the Company Secretary, Ifeanyi also headed the Trusts and
Legal Services departments of Habib Nigeria Bank Trustees Limited (now Platinum Habib Bank
Capital and Trusts Limited, pursuant to the 2005 consolidations in the Nigerian banking sector that
culminated in the merger of Habib Nigeria Bank Plc and Platinum Bank Plc). She has also worked in
the telecommunications sector, having worked as the Company Secretary/Legal Adviser to Satcom
Nigeria Limited (Telecommunications Engineers), an affiliate of GAI & MECA Inc, Houston, Texas.
Ifeanyi was the Managing Partner of Ada Maha & Associates (Legal Practitioners), before her reentry
into the financial services sector in 1999.
A keen social worker, in 2001 in recognition of her commitment to the cause of refugees, she was
honored with the conferment of ambassadorship by the African Refugee Foundation (AFEF).
An avid collector of art, Ada loves gardening, sewing and baking.
WICSA is run by a crop of volunteers below:
JOY KESHI WALKER - FOUNDER, CEO
Joy Keshi Walker is an advocate and international communication consultant to governments and non-
governmental organizations globally that promote women’s issues. In 1998, she founded a non profit
organization, “Women Issues Communication Services Agency (WICSA)” an interventionist group
dedicated to bridging the communication gap between advocates of women issues and their target
audience using the Arts.
WICSA developed educational Art exhibits and lecture series that have traveled worldwide. The
exhibits have shown in Africa, British, European and German (Bundestag) Parliaments with positive
results. Joy worked in conjunction with FORWARD GERMANY, to take the exhibits all over the
world.
Since coming to the United States from Nigeria, Joy has worked as a teacher and a vacation guide and
earned an Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2008.
She enjoys spending time with her children and volunteering in her church.
What I learnt from the Exhibition
The critical path to freeing women, especially from developing nations, is through financial
independence attained by job training and self-sufficiency programs.
MABEL OLUFOLAKE SOMORIN (Mrs) - Copy Director/ Lowe Lintas
A graduate of Communications Studies from Aberdeen College, Scotland, Mrs. Somorin also holds a
Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising Administration from Watford College Herts, England.
A seasoned creative thinker with cutting edge copywriting skills, Mrs. Somorin parades an impressive
portfolio with wide ranging creative experience on diverse multi-national and local brands.Having
previously worked in two top Nigerian Advertising Agencies, she joined Lowe Lintas in May 1994and
has attended creative management and leadership courses in Nigeria and has been exposed
tointernational TV shoots in London, UK and Cape Town South Africa.
Presently Mrs. Somorin is a Copy Director in Lowe Lintas and a full member of the Advertising
Practitioner Council of Nigeria (APCON).
A founding member of W.I.C.S.A – Women Issues Communications Services Agency , Mrs Somorin
continues to organize programs that focus on stopping unhealthy widowhood practices as well as end
prostitution.
Career High points:
• Led the Lowe Lintas creative team to win the Nigerian Breweries Pitch and sustain the account
in Feb. 1999.
The lead copywriter on the Lowe Lintas team that won a Bronze medal for Maltina “Sip It” campaign
at the maiden edition of the LAIF Awards (Lagos Advertising and Ideas festival) in June 2006Mrs.
Somorin is a full member of the Advertising Practitioner Council of Nigeria (APCON). Mabel is
married with children.
• Made a presentation during the WICSA forum at the conference of Women in Africa and the
African Diaspora (WAAD) at IUPUI Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
CHI - CHI ANWULI KESHI
Under Construction
IFEANYI ADA MAHA
Ifeanyi Ada Maha - Usifoh is an attorney, who holds a bachelors and masters degree in Law from the
Universities of Benin and Lagos respectively (both in Nigeria) and was called to the Nigerian Bar in
1987. She has a hands on post qualification experience of well over twenty two years spanning
investment banking, strategy development & implementation, Trusteeship, Pensions, Human Capital
management, commercial legal practice (with a bias for secured credit transactions) and human rights
advisory services. With a keen eye for opportunities to deepen her skill curve, Ifeanyi has attended a
broad spectrum of training programs and workshops that cut across her career path.
Ifeanyi has actively participated in a number of the self regulatory organizations in Nigeria. She is a
Fellow and Council member of the Association of Pension Funds of Nigeria. Her other professional
memberships include the Chartered Institute of Management of Nigeria and the Direct Marketing
Institute of Nigeria. She has served on various Committees of the Association of Corporate Trustees,
Association of Issuing Houses (Underwritters) of Nigeria and the Nigerian Securities & Exchange
Commission’s Capital Market Committee’s Sub Committee on the Reactivation of the Nigerian Bond
Market.
Presently, Ada is the Managing Director/CEO of Fruitful Gleans Limited, an ago - allied company.
Her wealth of experience continues to enhance the talent pool of Eterne Asset Managers Limited,
where she chairs the company's board. Her board memberships also include companies in the
engineering, textile and real estate sectors.
In the course of her career, she was an Executive Director in FutureView Financial Services Limited
and Greenwich Trust Limited, both renowned Nigerian investment banking companies. Penultimate to
which she was the Managing Director/CEO, Cornerstone Trustees Limited and the Executive
Director of its subsidiary company – Cornerstone Leasing & Investments Limited. Both companies
being subsidiaries of Cornerstone Insurance Plc, a top Nigerian publicly quoted insurance company.
For well over six years alongside being the Company Secretary, Ifeanyi also headed the Trusts and
Legal Services departments of Habib Nigeria Bank Trustees Limited (now Platinum Habib Bank
Capital and Trusts Limited, pursuant to the 2005 consolidations in the Nigerian banking sector that
culminated in the merger of Habib Nigeria Bank Plc and Platinum Bank Plc). She has also worked in
the telecommunications sector, having worked as the Company Secretary/Legal Adviser to Satcom
Nigeria Limited (Telecommunications Engineers), an affiliate of GAI & MECA Inc, Houston, Texas.
Ifeanyi was the Managing Partner of Ada Maha & Associates (Legal Practitioners), before her reentry
into the financial services sector in 1999.
A keen social worker, in 2001 in recognition of her commitment to the cause of refugees, she was
honored with the conferment of ambassadorship by the African Refugee Foundation (AFEF).
An avid collector of art, Ada loves gardening, sewing and baking.
To see the Art exhibits, please click here