"As a teacher, I worked tirelessly, ready, besides my normal class, to give extra lessons, help small groups and even individuals. I loved teaching so much I wished I didn't have to be paid for it. It was a living as well as a love."

"I am sorry for those who take up teaching as a stopgap. Whoever wants to be a teacher must be ready to put everything into it. And the rewards are plentiful, in heaven and also here on earth."

"I have always wanted to be a teacher. I was not interested in money or cars. I was only interested in teaching and training the young ones."

"I have been told that I have nothing to do with the celebration except to be present. My girls have taken me over."

"We are fortunate and proud to have Udy as a senior executive within our University. As a global, inspirational leader, Udy demonstrates that vision in all she does and deserves to be on the Inspirational diversity leaders list."

"IN 2015, I founded Affiong Etuk foundation for inclusive health and it was necessary because my mum, being a nurse, practiced in the 60s/70s/80s and then I took after her."

"I am delighted. Words cannot express how proud I am to be included in such distinguished company."

"I have trained at least 7, 500 people; I run town halls, gather people in a stadium and just tell them about Dementia and its symptoms. I am also teaching people to utilise the residual memory of patients for public good."

"People will look at this and see hope. It is about changing perceptions of what a professor looks like and creating role models for future generations."

"If this became a seminal part of the national curriculum and other community and educational settings across the country, then it would mean we are not only able to create more understanding in society, but we would be able to tackle racism and division more effectively."

"The Phenomenal Women exhibition showcases the hard work, resilience and success of black female professors in the UK."

"This event will set into sharp focus the importance of learning about black history and Britain’s colonial past."

"It was expensive to train to do anything else but I got scholarships all the way through school, and received funding to do my training."

"Winning those awards meant a lot to me, mainly because at the time there was a real perception that nursing was for people who did not get the grades to go to university."

"Thirty individuals may be cramped into one small room, what the government should endeavour to do moving forward is to subsidise the costs of fruits and vegetables or make it free to the poor in the society so that they can have access to the nutrients and other minerals to fortify their immune system so they can stay healthy."

"I also feel we must look inward too for Afrocentric solutions to this pandemic. We do not need to copy and paste what the West is doing."

"Speechless and Stunned I lack words to describe such an inspiring leader. Your Excellency, you will be sorely missed. Thank you for all you did, the many lives that you transformed, the society too was changed."

"My experience of COVID-19 is weird as I believe I had it. Though I did not get tested as I was told at the University College Hospital (UCH) that they had no capacity for testing. I was asked to go to Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Lagos."

"Prime Oyo Role Model is a part of OYOMESI character education strand designed to honour the people who have excelled in their chosen profession and contributed to the development of education and society at large."

"We have a digital literacy centre where pupils are given further education. Every pupil has different talents and abilities. While some are academically gifted, others are excellent in other areas. Oyo State is now rewarding teachers in every school where the WAEC result is above average."

"Responsibility of an educator is to provide equitable and sustainable education and the use of strike as a tool to ensure demands are met is unprofessional."

"The problem we have in Nigeria is that, most of us in the education sector got there because we couldn’t make our first choice ambition in other fields (then we find our ways into the classroom), whereas in the developed parts of the world, people that are in education would absolutely die for it."

"The progress of earlier graduates paved the way for a new generation of black, female Rhodes Scholars."

"They are still static. I submit that the women of Nigeria were not much more under subjection of men in the olden days than they are now. In no part of the world today are men much more pampered and spoilt than they are in Nigeria. Does one ever see a group of women standing and sitting in the street corners of Lagos? No, the loafers are the men. They are the ones who have the time for Ayo, Ludo and Draughts. A strange thing happens; say an arrest is made; a crowd collects. Whom does one find in the crowd? – Men. It is the men who seem to have the time to waste."

"Women are now seen in the offices and shops. They work as nurses, health visitors, midwives, teachers, telephonists. Year after year, more openings are given to women. Two girls are now in training at the Higher College as dispensers."

"I would have considered coming to address what I knew would be a large and critical audience as the greatest ordeal I have ever had to go through if it was not for the fact that I had three points which urged me to accept the invitation of the Youth movement. The subject ‘The Emancipation of Women in Nigeria’ is one in which I am naturally deeply interested and one about which I feel most keenly."

"Some would ask what would be the advantage to Nigeria if women were wholly emancipated. I should like to submit four immediate obvious results: Abuse of power by men and arrogance will lessen; opinion of women would be more beneficial and influential, for there are certain matters which women could tackle better than men; better and happier homes and a better nation."

"Tossed in a sea of intellect with highly earnest students mitigate the dangers of the individualistic and capitalistic attitude gradual process of introducing people into a foreign country and to foreign life."

"Someone had to be first."

"Brains have no sex … You can do as well and even better than some boys."

"Gradual process of introducing people into a foreign country and to foreign life."

"She has become the portrait of a new Nigeria we all yearn for; a Nigeria where merit is honoured above mediocrity; where the marauding mob of gangsters and corporate goons will never ever have their way."

"Despite tremendous lobbying and financial inducement, she gave democracy a new meaning as the returning officer by standing for equity, fairness, and righteousness."

"Fundamentally, our greatest resource capital as a nation is our women, who are keenly and immensely nurturing with all dedication our imperfect nation to perfection. Professor Nnenna Oti exemplifies their world and our untapped richness."

"I have never in my life participated in an election. But duty came calling. I made enquiries from Abuja, and I said ‘if I perish, I perish."

"I consider it a great disservice to our people and generations any attempt in the slightest guise, to do anything that could now or later jeopardize our common interest."

"I particularly note the inclusion of a ‘junior’ staff with a track record of truancy, unrepentant repeated acts of gross misconduct amply qualifying him for instant dismissal from service according to the University of Uyo Condition of Service."

"The present height attained by the University of Uyo has been the accumulated results of immense corporate and individual sacrifices by patriots and people of great minds over several decades. I consider it a great disservice to our people and generations any attempt in the slightest guise, to do anything that could now or later jeopardize our common interest."

"Access to uninterrupted internet facility is imperative to ensure quality education in Nigeria."

"I suggested that every teacher should be encouraged to use much of the available software in their daily class instructions."

"It would be impossible to guarantee a high-quality education for Nigerian youths if they remained disconnected from the rest of the world."

"Scholars are conscious of what they lose by not being connected with the rest of the world."

"Once internet access was in place, the creation of digital local content would stimulate rapid use of technology."

"For instance, Microsoft Word, Excel, CorelDraw and PowerPoint programmes should be integrated into appropriate teaching and learning events."

"Significantly, she epitomises the finest and most dedicated intellectual culture of our beautiful nation. She signifies centuries of cutting-edge scholasticism, the foundation of which our great forefathers laid."

"The college has recorded remarkable achievements in the last 12 years since the introduction of covenant service in the campus."

"I want to announce that despite the June 12, 13 mayhem and arson which had engulfed the university of uyo, such great strides included the resumption of works on all capital projects, university table water factory, signing of MOU with various corporate bodies for collaboration, National and International awards of excellence by staff and students, and the movement of the university administration to the Main Campus among other feast."

"I described the covenant service as a “Life Changing Fellowship” urged the university community to keep faith with God and remain focused and read the path of growth and progress."

"I regretted the ugly event of June 12, 2013 and stressed that it could have been worse but for God’s Favour and mercy upon the university."

"The pastor and the mother in me will not permit me to do anything that will adversely affect the future of our children."