Kingibe Ireti Heebah

Ireti Heebah Kingibe (born 2 June 1954) is a Nigerian civil engineer and politician. She was elected Member of the Senate representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the 2023 Nigerian Senate elections under the Labour Party.

Her early life and education began at Emotan Preparatory School in 1966, followed by Queen’s College Lagos (1966–1967) and Washington Irving High School (1970–1973). She earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota between 1975 and 1980.

Kingibe’s career includes roles as a quality control engineer (1978–1979) with Bradley Precast Concrete Inc., an engineer (1979–1991) with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and project supervision (1981–1982) with the Nigerian Air Force in Ikeja, Lagos. She later worked as a planning engineer (1982) with New Nigeria Construction Company, Kaduna, and as a consultant (1985) for Belsam Limited. From 1990 to 1994, she served as regional engineer for Lodigiani Nigeria Limited in Lagos. Currently, she is a senior partner at Kelnic Associates, Abuja.

Kingibe entered politics in 1990 as an adviser to the SDP’s national chairman. She ran as an FCT senatorial candidate for the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2003, later defecting to the PDP in 2006. In 2014, she joined the APC but withdrew her candidacy in 2015. She joined the Labour Party in 2022, became its FCT senatorial candidate, and won the 2023 Nigerian Senate election. Before the election, she pledged her basic salary to a fund aimed at addressing infrastructural deficits in rural FCT communities.