– The first female train driver in Nigeria, Isa Fatima Abiola, has called on women to join the transportation industry as train drivers
– She says she decided that she would be a train driver when she was a 12-year-old girl living in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital
– Isa said people laughed at her when she started driving a train, including her male colleagues
– She has been driving trains for four years, proving to everyone who doubted her that what a man can do a woman can do better
The first female train driver in Nigeria, Isa Fatima Abiola, has shared her experience driving a train and becoming the first woman to do so in the country.
In an interview with BBC News Pidgin, she said people laughed at her when she started driving a train, including her male colleagues. Isa was a 12-year-old when she decided to be a train driver.
According to the female driver, she was walking with her grandfather when she saw a train in Ilorin, Kwara state, and she promised herself that she would drive it someday. She said people thought she would quit after a year, but she has been driving it for four years and her determination has proved them wrong.
Isa Fatima Abiola is the first female train driver in Nigeria, and she has been driving for four years. BBC News Pidgin Source: Facebook Isa said there is a need for women to join the transportation industry as train drivers because a lot of development is ongoing in the area of rail transport. The woman has a dream to be one of the best train drivers in the world and to also train more than 100 females on how to drive train.
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