In her book, Igbo Women and Economic Transformation ... the state government renamed Calabar Airport, the Margaret Ekpo International Airport.

In 1953, Ekpo was nominated by the NGNC to the regional House of Chiefs, and in 1954 she established the Aba Township Women’s Association. As leader of the new market group, she turned it into a ...

Margaret Ekpo's death marked an eclipse of the last of women titan in the country. A statesman and foremost politician, she operated on the same level with the likes of Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti ...

Margaret who was the sixth of nine children (and the only surviving child now) met and married John Udoh Ekpo who was from Ikot Eyo in Eket, in present-day Akwa Ibom State. They had two children ...

History will forever be kind to them. Flora Nwapa, Margaret Ekpo, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti There is no better time than now to revisit the profiles of women who believed in what they were fighting ...

CALABAR—The Cross River government has vowed to unmask those it described as fifth columnists who were behind last Wednesday’s incident at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport in ...

One of the leading figures in Nigeria's fight for democracy was Margaret Ekpo, a feminist politician and trades union leader. After Nigerian independence in 1960, Ekpo became an MP and a hero to a ...