“You Don’t Need To Apologise”- Aisha Yesufu Tells Comedienne, Taaooma

Activist, Aisha Yesufu has advised comedienne, Taaooma, not to be worried about criticisms from her followers concerning her visit to the office of the vice president of Nigeria. Yesterday, we reported that Taaooma apologised for visiting the VP, stating that are intentions & actions were misjudged.

Reacting to this, Aisha Yesufu tweeted:

“Dear Taaooma, you do not need to apologise to anyone! You did not do anything wrong by having a meeting with the vice president. There are different ways of achieving something. It is never one way and it is okay whatever way one chooses. Intentions are what count and you know yours!”

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Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu was born and raised in Kano State, and is from Agbede in Edo State.

She experienced the difficulties of being a girl in a heavily patriarchal environment. She has said that by the time she was 11 years old, she didn’t have any female friends because they had all been married or died in childbirth, and that by the time she married at 24, most of her friends were nearly grandmothers.

She says her love of books helped her during childhood, and reading made her realise “there was a world beyond the ghetto that I was growing up in … and I wanted that life”. She applied to the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1991, but was rejected because she was a woman.

She was initially admitted to Usmanu Danfodiyo University in 1992, but after the school closed she enrolled at Ahmadu Bello University to study medicine. Yesufu left Ahmadu Bello University after the school was also closed, following the killing of a professor in 1994. She completed her education at Bayero University Kano, from which she graduated with a degree in microbiology.

Aisha is married with two kids.