"Our Threatened ‘Pikins” And The Tobacco Profiteers By Betty Abah", Sahara Reporters (July 20, 2014)
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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.
— Betty Abah
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About 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.
About 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.
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