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Wuraola Esan.
Born in 1914, she attended Idi Aba baptist Girls schook in Abeokuta before heading to the United missionary college to earn a teachers' training. She was a domestic science teacher from 1930-1934 at a missionary training school in Abeokuta. At a period where education fascilities were limited to women during the colonial period, she was able to establish the Ibadan People's Girls Grammar school in Molete in 1944.
Wuraola Esan entered the political scene in the 1950's and was a member of the women wing of the Action Group. She rose in rank to become the first ever female senate member of the Nigerian National Assembly as a nominated senator from Ibadan West.
Her philosophy was that a woman had to be twice as effective and efficient as a man to get recognition. She championed the cause for emancipation and empowerment of women and was the voice for education and progress of women.
In 1975, she was awarded the highest chieftaincy awarded to women in Ibadan-IYALODE of Ibadan. She was a politician, a female activist and educator.
She died in 1985.

culled from :women.ng

When was she elected as the member of the national assembly

Nice.

With all yorubas education they could not lead nigeria to success.

una dey turn history upside down. The first elected female senator in Nigeria is Franca Afegbua of the old Bendel state.

https://www.nairaland.com/643690/nigerias-first-legal-female-senator/2

Elose11:
una dey turn history upside down. The first elected female senator in Nigeria is Franca Afegbua of the old Bendel state.

https://www.nairaland.com/643690/nigerias-first-legal-female-senator/2

she was the first female senator
You are the one turning history upside down

She wasn't elected though because during her time senators were not elected

juman:
Nice.
With all yorubas education they could not lead nigeria to success.

Igbo people

sunshineG:
she was the first female senator
You are the one turning history upside down

She wasn't elected though because during her time senators were not elected

If she was not elected, then she was not a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria. Where is your source, by the way? I quoted mine.
Infact, daily trust newspaper described her as the first elected female black senator in the world.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/the-arts/17007-women-foundation-of-nigeria-launches-franca-afegbua-s-memoirs

ok

Elose11:
If she was not elected, then she was not a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria. Where is your source, by the way? I quoted mine.

bro I will give you mutiple sources
You mean a senator must be elected
do you know the history of nigeria at all
Do you think the senators in the first republic were elected

Mind you her daughter was also the first female professor of law in Nigeria,
http://woman.ng/2015/01/first-women-first-nigerian-woman-senator/

[PDF] Wuraola Esan as Educationist - IOSR journals
www.iosrjournals.org › papers › Version-2

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wuraola_Esan

Elose11:
If she was not elected, then she was not a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria. Where is your source, by the way? I quoted mine.
Infact, daily trust newspaper described her as the first elected female black senator in the world.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/the-arts/17007-women-foundation-of-nigeria-launches-franca-afegbua-s-memoirs

there is nothing that claimed she was the first woman to be a senator stop spreading lies sir

Elose11:
If she was not elected, then she was not a senator of the federal republic of Nigeria. Where is your source, by the way? I quoted mine.
Infact, daily trust newspaper described her as the first elected female black senator in the world.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/the-arts/17007-women-foundation-of-nigeria-launches-franca-afegbua-s-memoirs

that is another evidence
She was listed among pioneers

http://reportsonnaija..com/2012/06/some-of-nigeria-woman-pioneers.html?m=1

Empowering

ibkayee:
Empowering

my 1st love

Piiko:
my 1st love

Wuraola Esan?

ibkayee:
Wuraola Esan?

really??

ibkayee:
Wuraola Esan?

lol