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Amina Titi Atiku-Abubakar
Second Lady of Nigeria
In role
May 29, 1999 – May 29, 2007
PresidentOlusegun Obasanjo
Preceded byMrs. Akhigbe
Succeeded byPatience Jonathan
Personal details
Born
Amina Titilayo Albert

June 6, 1949
Osun State
SpouseAtiku Abubakar (Married 1971 till date)
Alma materKaduna Polytechnic

Amina Titilayo Atiku-Abubakar is one of the wives of the former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar. She's an advocate of women and child rights. She is the founder of Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF) and the initiator[1] of the private bill that led to the establishment of National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Early life and education

Titi Amina Atiku Abubakar was born into a Christian home to Albert Yoruba family from Ilesa,[2][3] Osun state. Her primary and secondary education was at a missionary school,[4] a Roman Catholic institution. She was raised in Lagos and later married Atiku Abubakar, before attending Kaduna Polytechnic.[5] Apart from English, she speaks Yoruba and Hausa languages fluently.[6]

Career and advocacy

She was a lecturer at Kaduna State Polytechnic.[7]

While in Rome to further her education in 1986 and 1987, she saw many Nigerian girls on the street. After making inquiry, she realized that many of the girls served as prostitutes for their madams,[8] and quite often were not paid. She also found out that they were deceived with promises to work in Italy, and this prompted her to pledge to combat such incidences upon her return.

In 1999, when her husband, Atiku Abubakar became Nigeria's Vice President, she used the opportunity to start an advocacy to end forced prostitution and other forms of human trafficking. First, she founded Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), and then sponsored a private bill for strict punishment for traffickers, and for the establishment of a federal agency, the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, responsible for fighting trafficking of persons in Nigeria. She also ran education courses welcoming girls and rehabilitating them and repatriating them from different countries back home.[9]

Awards

  • Annual Nigerian Women's Award (2002)[10]
  • D'linga Award (2010)[11]

Publications

Amina Titi Abubakar is the author of anumber of publications including:[12]

  • Educating the Nigerian Child[13]
  • Empower Law to Fight Child Slavery[14]
  • Let Us Celebrate Humanity: A collected speeches on women's right and human trafficking[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF)". The Communication Initiative Network. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  2. ^ "My battle to marry Atiku Titi Abubakar - OnlineNigeria.com". nm.onlinenigeria.com. Online Nigeria. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  3. ^ "The News, Volume 18". Nigeria: Independent Communications Network Limited. 2002. p. 96.
  4. ^ "Hajiya Titi Abubakar: Working to restore human dignity". www.weekend.peoplesdailyng.com. People's Daily. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  5. ^ Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo (2006). Atiku: the story of Atiku Abubakar. Africana Legacy Press.
  6. ^ Josiah Emerole (2002). Amazing crusade: media portrait of the Titi Atiku Abubakar war against human trafficking. Vol. 1. s.n. (Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation).
  7. ^ "Hajiya Titi Abubakar: Working to restore human dignity". www.weekend.peoplesdailyng.com. People's Daily. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Hajiya Titi Abubakar: Working to restore human dignity". www.weekend.peoplesdailyng.com. People's Daily. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  9. ^ Sufuyan, Ojeifo. "My battle to marry Atiku Titi Abubakar - OnlineNigeria.com". nm.onlinenigeria.com. Online Nigeria. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  10. ^ "Nigeria: Titi Atiku, 16 Others Bag Women Awards". This Day (Lagos). All Africa. 29 May 2002. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  11. ^ Ojoma, Akor (28 June 2010). "Nigeria: Titi Atiku, Osaze, 73 Others Win d'Linga Award". Daily Trust (Abuja). All Africa. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  12. ^ "African Books Collective: Educating the Nigerian Child". www.africanbookscollective.com. African Book Collective. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  13. ^ Atiku-Abubakar, Amina Titi (2005). Educating the Nigerian Child (Paperback) by Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar, Chris Chirwa: Spectrum Books Ltd ,Nigeria, Nigeria 9789780294229 Paperback - The Book Depository. Nigeria: Spectrum Books Ltd ,Nigeria. ISBN 9780294228. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  14. ^ Atiku Abubakar, Amina Titi (2001). Empower law to fight child slavery. Nigeria: WOTCLEF.
  15. ^ Atiku Abubakar, Amina Titi; Fagbohungbe, Tunde; Fabiyi, Sayo. Let us celebrate humanity: a collected speeches on women's right and human trafficking, volume II. WOTCLEF. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
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