Grace Alele-Williams Quotes

Grace Alele-Williams OON, FMAN, FNAE was a Nigerian professor of mathematics education, who made history as the first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate, and the first Nigerian female vice-chancellor at the University of Benin. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. December 1932 – 25. March 2022
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Famous Grace Alele-Williams Quotes

“After creating the “political class,” journalists failed to set parameters for person in that class.”

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/journalists-not-evaluating-politicians-alele-williams/ Speaking at a meeting organised by Initiative for Moral Rectitude in Society (IMRS).

“To the elderly ones, you are retired but don't be tired. Just keep doing what you were doing.”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/0y3EdD7sKow Prof in an interview on words to the young and elderly.

“Play hard and keep straight, and continue getting quality education, well informed, so that in any situation you have something positive to contribute.”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/0y3EdD7sKow Prof in an interview on words to the young and elderly.

“Ask yourself over and over again, has the Chibok affair become too late to think about?”

Source: https://www.youtube.com/mRi3f0V_kM4 Prof Grace Alele seeking for the return of Chibok girls in 2017.

“Let us stop this system of putting people in positions just because of the contacts they have. That is a major reason why we remain a poorly governed and undeveloped country.”

Source: https://guardian.ng/features/how-to-have-more-female-vice-chancellors-in-nigerian-varsities/Prof Grace Alele on allowing qualified people in position regardless of the gender.

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