So proud of everything you had achieved in your life mum, love you and miss you always

It a year since you left this world!
You are gone, but not forgotten!
Continue to rest in peace. 
Felicity Ukoko.. we miss you!!

You are forever missed Felicity. I still cannot believe you are gone. May your dear soul continue to rest in peace.

Dear Boss,
I miss you dearly, Your departure hurts me daily and deeply.
You were a great mentor, you taught me daily,
You loved your work so much, saving the saves of mothers and babies were your goals.
Your great broad knowledge is gone.
You repectfully pulled us along.
You are so experienced, educated and motherly.
Your last words to me will forever guide me.
Thank you

Oh dearest Mrs Felicity, the news about your demise is still a great shock for me. I really can't believe it. How can a gem such as you be gone?!

You're an exceptional woman with an amazing soul. One who's never too tired to attend to mothers' concerns on any issue whatsoever. A cheerful being who radiates and emits love, joy and happiness to all around her.

I'm sure I'll never meet anyone else like you in the rest of my life's journey .

We met in Abuja-Nigeria at a seminar organized by WBFA, WHO and other organizations during the world breastfeeding week. We were introduced to each other by Mrs Rita and with a smile on your face,you gave me a warm embrace and told me I looked so beautiful! WOW! how can I be looking "so beautiful" with my pregnancy-induced "swollen face"(cheeks,nose and lips)?! You looked through me and saw the beauty therein. Only beautiful souls such as yours possess that superpower.

The lovely memories I have of you shall forever live on in my heart.

You're in a better place now Madam. Rest on!!!

Bless you and RIP you are missed by many and it wa an honor to work with you and be your friend miss you

Miss you was an honor to work with you and be your friend god bless x

Dearest Beloved Felicity.

It is so incredibly difficult to capture the essence of Felicity in words. From the moment we first met, in London, at a White Ribbon Alliance poetry event at the residence of the Commonwealth Secretary General in early 2015, and immediately connected, Felicity became my comrade in the battle to save the lives of pregnant women in Africa and around the world. It is a measure of Felicity's enthusiam and commitment to the cause, that less than a month after we met, she was in Kwara State to meet midwives and mothers there.

As a highly experienced midwife and well respected educator, Felicity brought a wealth of wisdom, and a committed passion, to our quest to ensure that every mother was educated with the information she needed to assure her and her newborn's survival, but also Felicity was a role model and advocate for every midwife to care for mothers with respect and dignity, assuring a high quality continuum of care and counsel, from pregnancy and birth, to age.

Through Felicity's input, this translated to the Wellbeing Foundation's Mamacare antenatal and postnatal education program in over 31 health facilities across Nigeria. Felicity was passionate about helping mothers breastfeed successfully, through our Global Breast Feeding Initiative and Baby-Friendly outreaches, which again, the Foundation's midwives followed where Felicity led.

Under Felicity's guidance, and her unwavering conviction that even qualified midwives should regularly upgrade their skills, the Wellbeing Foundation brings the most modern lifesaving training for midwives in Nigeria, through the EmONC Emergency Management of Obstetric and Newborn Complications Program, in partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Johnson & Johnson, investing in anatomical model skills laboratories at medical education institutions. 

Felicity was an uncommon and unique hands-on leader, who always ensured consensus was achieved. Forever kind, friendly, courteous, lively and helpful, her considerable skills took her across the world at every level from villages to the United Nations General Assembly as she promoted the core principle we shared with the International Confederation of Midwives, of placing midwives, their skills and competence, at the heart of global health solutions.

I will miss Felicity enormously, as an ally, as a sister, as a midwife, and as a friend. I am hugely honoured to have known and worked with Felicity, and am blessed by her contributions always. I am only comforted by her last words to me, when I had thanked her for representing me on a panel discussion in Lagos, telling her "Thanks Felicity, Lifesaver" to which she replied "YE, you know I love this".

Our heartbreaking loss of Felicity, a loving mother, daughter, wife and sister, a midwife par excellence, a global advocate, an educator, an ally and a friend, a lifesaver, an angel, is Heaven's gain.

May Felicity rest in peace. Amen.

May her soul rest in peace.

Darling Felicity was a beautiful person. Her kindness and compassion was felt by all who ever met her.

Our friendship was deep, and built from love and respect of each others work and lives over the last few years. Many days and evenings spent talking about our worlds and understanding each others, over one more glass of wine. She was an inspiration.

Her loss is a shock to everyone. Its not fair, and reminds us all how fragile life is. I am so sorry for the loss and devastation everyone must be feeling right now and for the gap that has been left in everyone's heart.