Mercy Abang

Mercy Abang in 2017

Mercy Banku Abang (born 20 September, 1984) is a Nigerian journalist. She is known for her self-funded journalism focused on vulnerable populations. She is described as one of Nigeria's most syndicated freelance journalists and Nigeria's most syndicated storyteller.

Quotes

• 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.
  • Her reply when asked if she gets time to rest and have her alone moments (9 August 2014)

• 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.
  • The most emotional part of doing her work (9 August 2014)

• 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.
  • Mercy Abang‎: Sexual predators on the prowl, Nigeria​n kids the target (26 December 2017)

• 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.
  • Talking about Most challenges faced when working either in politics, advocacy or media. (August 2014)

• We need men to look at what women can offer and to hand them the baton to thrive.
  • Rising above challenges (9 August 2022)

• 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)

• 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.
  • Quoted from one of her reports titled: Restoring Hope to Boko Haram’s Theatre of War (12 February 2018)

• Monitoring elections. I mean the entire process of democracy and where we are today as a people and a nation.
  • Particular experience of her job that has made the most impact on her. (9 August 2014)

• She condemned police and military “brutality” across the country, and a “generalised system of impunity.
  • UN calls for urgent action to end violence in Nigeria (2 September 2019)

• I take a deep breath and think outside the box.
  • Her feelings when she meets gridlocks (August 2014)

• I think it was while I practised as a field reporter on television; I went for an assignment and I needed the speech.
  • Embarrassing moment in the course of her work (August 2014)