Founder and CEO of ErommaOse Nwokoro Foundation, Dr. Bernardette Erommaose Nwokoro was exceedingly grateful as she was honored recently with double awards for her contribution in taking young Nigerians off the street through skill acquisition programs.

At the just concluded The Achievers Awards International/Conference, TAAI which held in Tanzania, Dr Nwokoro was honored among the Under 40 Entrepreneur Awards as Distinguished Humanitarian of the year; while her Non Governmental Organizations, ErommaOse Nwokoro Foundation got the NGO of the year(Skill Acquisition and Empowerment) award.

Dr Bernardette Erommaose Nwokoro who is also an ECOWAS youth ambassador, has been an advocate for uplifting under privileged people in the society.
Through her Erommaose Nwokoro Foundation; she has trained thousands of young Nigerians on different skills, from Hotel management to hairdressing, dress making to name a few.
In April, 2025, her Foundation graduated over 100 young Nigerians who were trained in various skills an also handed out starter pack to assist them in setting up their businesses.

Dr Nwokoro is a great Woman and a force to reckon with. She is highly respected for her humanitarian passion and strong willed personality yet very private and humble. She is involved in individual charity works of which she believes is a means of fostering empathy, social cohesion, and strengthening communities.

“I love helping people because it gives a sense of purpose and helps make the world a better place for people in need”.
However, she prefers keeping her charity activities away from public eyes. Her ‘No media,’ ‘No camera’ policy is because she is a strong believer of when giving do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.

Bernardette Nwokoro Eromma was born into the family of Late Chief and Mrs PS Nwokoro From Ime-Obi Agbor Delta state.

After her primary education at Emotan primary school in Benin for 4 years she then processed to Alasi Primary school Agbor delta state to complete her primary education and her senior secondary at Marymount college, she studied Linguistics (English major) at Delta State University. She hasn’t stopped there as she is bagging her Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the Prestigious Nexford University.

She counted herself lucky when her Primary Assignment during the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC was in Ebonyi State House of Assembly.

During her Nysc days ,she was in a CDS group called the dance and drama group where she did the State so proud as they came first in the annual State competition.

After service she moved back to Lagos where she was discovered by the Isis Modelling Agency and she landed her first job as a beauty queen, winning Miss Asoebi.
From then on, it has been one job to another, from walking the Nigeria runway down to the Johannesburg Mercedes Fashion week to Arise Fashion week to mention but a few. She also co- organised some events like Miss Tourism Nigeria and beats of style.

While navigating other 9 to 5 jobs to balance up with modeling career, Bernardette Nwokoro found herself in the hospitality industry.

In 2013 she started working at the prestigious Lagos Oriental Hotel( Owned my the Wempco group) as a Banquet Sales representative.

Speaking about her experiences, she said, “I learned a lot on the job, learnt how to plan and execute events without complains. I handled weddings, conferences and meetings from start to finish with no supervision. I started working more on myself to become indispensable, someone you can rely on, someone you can trust. I grow on the job daily, from contract staff I was made full staff with benefits, and now I am the banquet sales manger at the Lagos Oriental Hotel. I then remembered during the interview back then. The then Human Resource Manager, who is now the Managing Director asked me where I saw myself in 5 years and I told him to head a Department and at that time I never knew I was speaking it into existence and now it became my reality.”

Dr Nwokoro has been honored with prestigious awards from Isis models for her outstanding performance in the modeling industry; Women Economic Forum for the Exceptional Women of Excellence Award and also from Nigeria Women Achievers award for the most outstanding personality in hospitality, Cool Wealth Award for Outstanding NGO/ Foundation of the year.
She recently got inducted into ECOLERITE INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AVANCEMENT ( FEIPA) And Doctor of Philosophy in Hospitality and Tourism Management ( Honoris Causa) From Prowess University Delaware USA.

More so, she got inducted in to the West Africa Youth Council as The West Africa Youth Ambassador.