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Mercy Abang Quotes

born 1984 Nigeria

Mercy Banku Abang (born 20 September, 1984) is a Nigerian journalist. She is known for her self-funded journalism focused on vulnerable populations.

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We need men to look at what women can offer and to hand them the baton to thrive.

She condemned police and military “brutality” across the country, and a “generalised system of impunity.

I take a deep breath and think outside the box.

Tweeting for me is a hobby and not what I do my whole life. I’ve had people ask me if I have a day job and if I go.

I think it was while I practised as a field reporter on television; I went for an assignment and I needed the speech.

It’s the number of people who don’t know me that I can join in to do a thing or two for those who need them even more than I do.

I’d say I am lucky being married to a man who understands what I do and sure does appreciate me as a wife who sometimes moves from city to city.

How she balances her job and the home front without any suffering (2014)

Challenge is not forgetting who you are and what you stand for and also ensure that when you are a plumber you wear the hat of one and when you then become a mechanic the next day, you do same.

Monitoring elections. I mean the entire process of democracy and where we are today as a people and a nation.

On the 5th of January 2018 scores of people went missing with 9 soldiers killed when Boko Haram attacked Kannama near Geidam. The likes of Falmata Shettima continue to live precarious lives in spite of the seeming degrading of Boko Haram.

Experts say most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of the child, most often brothers, fathers, uncles, or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances, such as “friends” of the family, babysitters, or neighbours; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases.

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