Spotlight

Spotlighting our celebrated women 

Welcome to Spotlight... a section in which we'll feature interviews with or articles about 96 alumnae who have interesting careers, a story to tell, or who have made a difference to others' lives in some way.

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Kariba Akhidue (nee George) is a Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). She was born in Port Harcourt and hails from Buguma in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

After graduating from FGGC Abuloma in 1996, she went on to study Medicine at the University of Port Harcourt. Afterwards, she completed her internship at Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, Port Harcourt. She became a Registrar in internal medicine at UPTH in 2006 and then went on to be a Senior Registrar in 2012.

Kariba worked as a Senior Registrar until October 2015 when she had the best result in the Part 2 Fellowship Examination of the West African College of Physicians (Int. Med-Endocrinology) and was given the Award of Excellence by the Association of Resident Doctors, UPTH and became a Consultant. In December 2015 she won a grant to present her research work at the World Diabetes Congress in Vancouver, Canada. She is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians and a member of a number of professional associations incluging the Endocrine and Metabolism Society of Nigeria, Diabetes Association of Nigeria, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, European Association for the Study of Diabetes, among others.

Kariba is married to Dr Dennis Akhidue and is a mother of 3 (three) lovely children. Her hobbies are reading, singing and travelling.

Kariba was in Primrose House and would be described by many as calm, soft-spoken and intelligent. She believes that her experiences in FGGC Abuloma helped to build and mould her into this distinguished woman she has now become. She has always thought that if she could survive FGGC Abuloma, then she can survive any challenge that comes her way in life.

Federal Government Girls’ College Abuloma, Class of 96 Alumnae is honoured to be associated with this remarkable woman.

SPOTLIGHT QUESTIONNAIRE

Kariba Akhidue