Luanda- Angola’s Vice-President of the Republic Esperança da Costa Thursday praised the former Minister of Petroleum, Albina Assis, whom she considered one of the pioneers in the management of relevant institutions in the country.
To Vice-President, the former Oil minister has “an enviable path”, so the tribute “represents the appreciation of the role of women, from the struggle for national liberation to the contribution of the country’s level of development, especially in recent decades ”.
Esperança da Costa, who was speaking to the press in Luanda, on the sidelines of the tribute ceremony to Albina Assis, noted that the former minister of Petroleum, from 1992 to1999, is a highly competent intellectual, who assumed, from a very young age, several challenges, especially in the area of teaching and academia, and management and politics.
Among the relevant institutions that Albina Assis worked with, the Vice-President highlighted the Bromatology Laboratory, which dealt directly with the standardization of food products, the Luanda Refinery, Sonangol, where she was the first woman to head the national oil company, and the only female minister in the sector.
“In all these moments she fulfilled her task in a very objective way, with focus, courage, and experienced all these challenges. Today, she represents a great example even for the youth,” Esperança da Costa told a ceremony to honour the ex-Oil minister in recognition of her commitment.
The Vice President of Republic said that she met the engineer Albina Assis in the 1978’s, while promoter of the then pre-university course at the Faculty of Science at the Agostinho Neto University, being for her , a great defender of solidarity in the country.
Albina Assis was honoured with her name engraved in the auditorium of the new facilities of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Petroleum (Mirempt).
A chemical engineer, Albina Assis is currently the president of the Association for the Development of Rural Communities in Angola and of the Food Bank, besides being the general commissioner of Expo-2025, a role she holds since 2005.
Albina Assis was born on June 3, 1945, in Luanda. She completed her degree in Chemical Engineering at the Agostinho Neto University in 1982, along with other professional courses taken in the United Kingdom, Antwerp (Belgium), France and Brazil.
In addition to vice president, the event was attended by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, the vice president of the ruling MPLA party Luísa Damião, former oil ministers, among other individualities.
Source: Angola Press News Agency