Betty Abah
Betty Abah (born March 6, 1974) is a Nigerian journalist, author and a women and children's rights activist. She is the founder and Executive Director of CEE HOPE, a girl-child rights and development non-profit organization based in Lagos State. She studied English and literary studies from the University of Calabar in 1999, where she earned her first degree and further studied English literature in the University of Lagos in 2012, where she got her master's degree.
Quotes
[edit]- The girl child is just like an egg that can easily be damaged through teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse etc, hence, the need to protect them.
- Your dreams will come true.
- [1] Speaking on the Girl Child (October 19 2021)
- When the legendary Nelson Mandela made his famous quote ‘there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children' he most likely had the humanity-indicting apartheid system in mind. Were he alive now and a Nigerian, he would have replaced the last strand of the sentence with ‘the way in which it allows the tobacco industry, merchants of death, to toy with the lives and destinies’ of its children.
- "Our Threatened ‘Pikins” And The Tobacco Profiteers By Betty Abah", Sahara Reporters (July 20, 2014)
- When you know your stand and stay consistently by it, eventually you will prevail.
- IIDN Feature: Betty Abah on her journey of tackling equity shortfalls in Lagos slums", Initiative for Inclusive Dialogue in Nigeria (March 20, 2018)
- Most people who violate the right of others are cowards. Once you draw attention to their crimes, once you stand up to them they withdraw and people are safe
- [2] speaking on human rights 2019
- The poor also have rights to the city and there are more humane and inclusive ways of running ‘a mega city’ than the brutal and sledgehammer approach that currently obtains here.
- [3] Speaking on human rights
- ... A country is deemed great that truly cares about its children aka pikins, and the most vulnerable.
- "Our Threatened ‘Pikins” And The Tobacco Profiteers By Betty Abah", Sahara Reporters (July 20, 2014)
