Women From Nigeria

"When you do something good, they will show appreciation, and when you don’t do well, they will still show it – they will forget the good things you’ve been doing, so that’s how it"

"We are grateful for this unexpected gesture because for several years we’ve been winning the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) and I can’t remember us being honoured or rewarded this way,"

"I feel blessed, I feel fulfilled, and I feel all my hard work is there for the world to see. It means everything to me."

"The realization of returning to our local league, a goal I thought was impossible after almost 13 years abroad, has been achieved"

"I tell them about what I do when I’m down, how to get out of my own head. I give them a lot of wisdom."

"I love to see women excel, it is not every woman that is in my position or the position to come to this big event, she says."

"Making the transition from player to coach was really difficult, I’m not going to lie. There is not a lot of women coaching because when we’re done, we just want to have families. But because I have so much passion I want to stay in the game, I choose to give back to the young ladies."

"""It’s like rivals. It’s like everybody wants to be the boss of Women’s Football in Nigeria and that is how it is going to play."

"I am still in shock but I do know how hard we all worked to secure this title. Although I’m so grateful to have been awarded team MVP, it was a collective effort and every time I step out on that court with my team members, I am filled with gratitude that I get to do what I love every single day"

"Consistency and work ethic has always been my core values when it comes to the game of basketball; Especially since the goal is to continue playing at the next level. Being a member of the AFA Sports team would motivate me to do that. I’m extremely excited to be a part of something amazing. I am looking forward to what’s in store."

"To become apart of an amazing brand like AFA Sports is such a huge blessing. I’ve always looked up to athletes specifically women who had broken barriers representing brands that promote athletes to look and perform at their best. AFA Sports is a brand that does just that"

"Wrestling gave me fame, took me out of poverty and gave me a name. We didn’t have anything at home, but when I started making money, at least now we are not rich, but we are comfortable. We are now living in our own house, I bought a car for my dad, and I opened a shop for my mum."

"I find myself often thinking about how the gold medal will be represented to me… my dream finally coming true. I can’t wait to experience that moment and make history as the first African woman to win Olympic gold in wrestling."

"When you take this life too seriously, you are making things difficult for yourself. That’s why you have to find your happiness. I am always trying to be happy and smiling most of the time"

"I ended up loving wrestling passionately."

"Wrestling is not always about your strength, your physique, it’s about what is in your head. 30% of your strength, 30% of your tactics but most is your mental ability to manoeuvre your opponent. Because most of the time on the mat competitors are equal in strength."

"My coach has done so much for me. We spend a lot of time together, strength training, mat training. Sometimes he even stands in as a training partner for me. Most of the matches I have won, it’s not my strength but the intelligence of the coach."

"My dad used to tell me, ‘my daughter I believe what I can’t do anymore you can do it and make me proud.’ The only gift I can give him now is to medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The love I have for him will drive me."

"I want to wear an Olympic gold medal, like the wrestler I admire the most Jordan Burroughs. I love his style. When I was young, I used to watch his videos for hours. I want to succeed like him"

"“Here’s to even greater, here’s to even more grounds to conquer.”"

"If I am doing something that I love it has to serve me and pay my bills."

"Not necessarily. I feel that if you have a niche for yourself like your service is good, you still have your client base. I would say people don’t have the desire to eat the same thing 365 days a year. As human beings, we are not static to be eating the same things."

"When you are doing what you love, it doesn’t feel like work."

"Pushing through that means I can conquer things in this life."

"Taking up the challenge has helped shed a positive light on the (culinary) industry."

"I feel i started a trend or like I am pretty much a trailblazer because only a trailblazer will start something and other people will want to do it."

"As a girl child also, I’m not satisfied at all because it’s so crazy when you talk to a guy, some parents as well, and they are like, ‘You’re just a girl, you don’t have to do this , ou don’t have to do that.’ For me as an example, I’ve really talked about my story, what I went through, how ignorant my mother was not to let me do what I’m doing now or become this successful. She tried to stop me but should I say I was stubborn? Yes, I was somehow, to pursue my career."

"It teaches that, like Mama, even if you have many friends, let only few people into your inner space and the relationship should be based on honesty, humility, respect and openness."

"Mother is the glue that kept us together. Her hard work and resilience has been a guiding light in my life. History and rapid changes also motivated me. Attitudes, habits and cultures have changed. The sense of community is gone; thus the essence of the book is to document the values I learnt from my mother so children can learn."

"There is a lot to learn from them. By doing this, and by being a living example of good values as parents, you will have a good close knit family. We still have a lot to learn to make Nigeria great. We all have a role to play."

"There should be a strong family life at home and in school. Devote the weekends to your children; sit with them, be their friends, listen to their pains, because they have pains at their level."

"I am amazed that all that is me! Thank you for appreciating me. Do not love your children so much so you become blind to their weaknesses or cannot punish them when they err."

"Then, the teaching and nursing professions were considered the most appropriate professions for girls so, I took up a teaching appointment with St. Theresa's College."

"I began my work life as a stand-in teacher, and this was due to my very good performance in secondary school."

"An exemplary teacher and astute administrator, mentor and mother of mothers."

"Mrs Coker should go down in history as one of the best Nigeria has produced in education. When the Federal Government designated Queen’s College as the first Government College for girls, “Cokie” as she was fondly called, blazed the trail and set the standard for what would become the ethos of all Federal Government Colleges as symbols of national unity."

"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."

"With Chinaza and Uchenna we get two good offensive players that complement and spearhead our team, which also gives the squad better balance and durability."

"Linkopings FC has a long history of success and I look forward to being able to take home titles and create a professional level name here. It's a good opportunity for me to develop as a player and I am expectant about the next step in my career. I am really looking forward to start playing with the team and am glad that Linköping sees potential in me as part of the team. Now we achieve great deeds together."

"This is my job. I’ve been doing this for a while. I don’t have any fear. I will believe in myself, and what I can do. I cannot wait to be the best that I can be in this league and make a name for myself, and my family. I want to help this team as much as I can."

"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."

"She is a model of leadership, forming the character and building the competence of thousands of girls who went through her tutelage and an exemplary teacher to teachers."