Uche Azikiwe

Uche Ewah Azikiwe MFR, (born 4 February 1947) is a Nigerian academic, educator and author. She is the widow of former President of Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe. Uche Ewah Azikiwe (born 4 February 1947) is a Nigerian academic, educator and author. She is the widow of former President of Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe. She is a professor in the Department of Educational Foundation, Faculty of Education at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. In 1999, she was appointed to the board of directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Quotes

• Women should be allowed to play their role, their role is to help the men to rebuild the society in any form or shape.
  • At the launching of Power Women Forum in Enugu (15 December 2020)

• if you overlook the women and their contributions, you are going nowhere, it seems as if you have two legs and you are running with just one; you won’t go anywhere.
  • How the society should start seeing women

• When I had my first degree, he wrote Mrs Uche Azikiwe B.Edu, to show you how he valued it. When I got master’s degree, he would write B. English(Education), M. Education (Curriculum) on the envelop. He did the same thing when I had my PhD. When I was able to achieve all that, he was so happy because he had asked if I would be able to combine everything. I am happy he was alive when I got my PhD in 1992.
  • [1] Sharing the extent her husband, late Nnamdi Azikiwe expressed his appreciation for her pursuit of education. June 1, 2019

• Personally, all I want is the best for Nigeria. Anyone who will stop insecurity, poverty and all sorts of indices that often make people avoid Nigeria, I am totally in support of the person.
  • [2] On her readiness to support any of the candidates who would put an end to insecurity and poverty. November 24, 2022

• That is why I will stand on behalf of Azikiwe to pray that whatever happens, Nigeria will never disintegrate. Please let us come together. It will make him happy and make some of his other contemporaries happy that Nigeria is one. Please, let our current leaders do something to make sure that Nigeria is one. One Nigeria is what we need.
  • [3] Speaking at the third Igbo Nsukka Zik’s Annual Merit Award/ Lecture in commemoration of the late president’s birthday. November 2022