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Grace Alele-Williams Quotes

1932–2022 Nigeria

Grace Alele-Williams (16 December 1932 – 25 March 2022) was a professor of mathematics education, who made history as the first woman to become vice-chancellor at the University of Benin and first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate degree.

Nigeria
Academics
Educators
Mathematicians
Scientists

Also known as: Grace Alele Williams

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Ask yourself over and over again, has the Chibok affair become too late to think about?

After creating the “political class,” journalists failed to set parameters for person in that class.

Play hard and keep straight, and continue getting quality education, well informed, so that in any situation you have something positive to contribute.

Let us stop this system of putting people in positions just because of the contacts they have. That is a major reason why we remain a poorly governed and undeveloped country.

To the elderly ones, you are retired but don't be tired. Just keep doing what you were doing.

As long as we are celebrating a woman vice chancellor because she is the first or a woman chief judge because she is the first, then we have not arrived. We look forward to the time when we will have many women in such positions and we will be celebrating so many of them.

The excitement I felt on receiving the news from Professor Jubril Aminu (Minister of Education) had more to do with seeing it in terms of opening up the field for women than anything else. I saw it as an opportunity to show that women too could rise up to the occasion.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Alele-Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.