Career
She was confirmed to the post and sworn in on July 2, 2011. and was deployed to the Ministry of Aviation on July 4, 2011. She was however relieved of her duties as Minister of Aviation on 12 February 2014. She was also active in the political campaign of former President Goodluck Jonathan, where she served as his campaign"s Director of Administration and Finance.
In 2013 she was one of the delegates chosen by the President to attend the Papal inauguration of Pope Francis together with David Mark, President of the Senate and Viola Onwuliri, Foreign Minister.
She has been involved in numerous controversies ranging from highly inflated purchase of Bayerische Motoren Werke bullet-proof cars without following due process as well as allegations that Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi purportedly lied that about she obtained an Master of Business Administration degree from Street Paul"s College. However, the News website, SaharaReporters, had on January 6th 2014 quoted authorities at Saint Paul’s College, where Mistress
Oduah claimed she studied for bachelor"s and master"s degrees, as saying they did not award her an Master of Business Administration at anytime as the university does not even have a graduate school or graduate programme. In 2015 she was one of 100 senators elected to the 8th assembly.
Only six of these were women.
The others were Rose Okoji Oko, Uche Ekwunife, Fatimat Raji Rasaki, Oluremi Tinubu and Binta Garba. Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi was born to Igwe Doctorate.O. Oduah of Akili-Ozizor, L.G.A. in Anambra State on January 5, 1962. Oduah-Ogiemwonyi received her Bachelors and Masters Degree (in Accounting and Business Administration respectively) in the United States.
Upon her return to Nigeria in 1983, she joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
In 1992, she left the NNPC to establish the Sea Petroleum & Gas Company Limited (SPG), an independent marketer of petroleum products in Nigeria.
