Rabia Salihu Sa'id

Rabia Salihu Sa'id (born on April 21, 1963) is a Nigerian physicist, professor of atmospheric and space-weather physics, and a researcher at Bayero University Kano. She conducts research in atmospheric and space weather physics, particle physics, and electronics. Sa'id is an advocate and mentor for young women in science with the Visiola Foundation and Peace Corps; she co-founded Nigeria's Association of Women Physicists.

Quotes

Each day, my university is giving me only four hours of electricity. I can't do research in four hours!

• • Prof speak on her University days in 2015.
• Think! You are concentrating and the power goes off! You try to use the battery, and the battery starts beeping. Then you have to close it and leave.
  • Prof Rabia speak on battery in 2015.
• The ideas are gone by the time you come back. It's difficult — you have to start all over again.
  • Prof Rabia speak on ideas in 2015.
  • Ford Foundation Fellowships: Advancing Through Higher Education
• It was quite unique; different from all the scholarships.
• I’d been trying for, which was more concerned with the academic performance.
• This one wanted to know how much you have put into the community, which has shown your concern.