Bilkisu Yusuf

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.

Quotes

• For you to be able to inform others and to educate them, you have to be informed yourself and be educated yourself.
  • Journalism (8 July 2010)

• 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)

• Advocacy succeeds through two things: consistency and tenacity. You have to be patient and keep working.
  • As quoted in A Discussion with Bilkisu Yusuf, Journalist, Executive Director, Federation of Muslim Woman's Associations in Nigeria. Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs (8 July 2010).