Bilkisu Yusuf Quotes

1952–2015 Nigeria

Bilkisu Yusuf, also known as Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf, (2 December 1952 – 24 September 2015), was a Nigerian journalist, columnist and editor for prominent newspapers in Abuja, Kano and Kaduna, Nigeria. She is known in Nigeria for being the first woman to direct a national newspaper operation and served as editor for two more.

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If northern Nigeria were its own country, it would have the world’s worst maternal mortality rate.

Talking about how Northern Nigeria is in terms of health and education (2010)

For you to be able to inform others and to educate them, you have to be informed yourself and be educated yourself.

Advocacy succeeds through two things: consistency and tenacity. You have to be patient and keep working.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bilkisu Yusuf (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.