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{{short description|Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Hafsat Abiola
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| birth_place = [[Lagos]], Nigeria
| nationality = [[Nigerians|Nigerian]]
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]]<br/>[[Tsinghua University]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Nicholas Costello
| children =
| mother = [[Kudirat Abiola]]
| father = [[Moshood Abiola]]
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==Early life and education==
Abiola-Costello is the eighth child of Nigeria's [[1993 Nigerian presidential election|uninaugurated]] [[president-elect]], the late Chief [[Moshood Abiola]] and late [[Kudirat Abiola]]. Her father, Moshood Abiola, was put in prison by the dictator Gen. [[Sani Abacha]] for [[treason]] after declaring himself president. The elder Abiola later died while in detention in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN – Nigerian opposition leader Abiola dies – July 7, 1998 |url=http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9807/07/abiola/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=edition.cnn.com}}</ref> While her mother was murdered<ref>{{Cite news |last=Driscoll |first=Margarette |title=They shot my mother. She fights on through me |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/they-shot-my-mother-she-fights-on-through-me-mm0w9tl93z0 |access-date=2022-09-04 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref> during a demonstration for the release of her husband in 1996.<ref>[http://naijarchives.com/the-brutal-assassination-of-kudirat-abiola/ The Brutal Assassination of Kudirat Abiola] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006062355/http://naijarchives.com/the-brutal-assassination-of-kudirat-abiola/ |date=6 October 2017 }}, NAIJArchives, Retrieved 8 February 2016</ref><ref name="Chideya">{{Cite
Abiola-Costello studied at [[Queen's College, Lagos|Queens College, Yaba, Lagos]] and then [[Phillips Academy]], [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]], Massachusetts <ref>{{Cite web |title=Hafsat Abiola
== Career ==
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Abiola-Costello is an advisory council member at the [[Fetzer Institute]], as well as the [[Nuclear Age Peace Foundation]].
In July 2011, she was appointed the [[
In 2016, she was re-appointed Special Adviser to Governor [[Ibikunle Amosun]] in Ogun State.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-17 |title=Hafsat Abiola-Costello Re-appointed As Special Adviser To Ogun State Governor |url=https://woman.ng/2016/02/hafsat-abiola-costello-re-appointed-as-special-adviser-to-ogun-state-governor/ |access-date=2022-04-16 |website=Woman.NG |language=en-US}}</ref>
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== Personal life ==
In 2001 she married [[British people|British]] economist and diplomat Nicholas Costello.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicholas Costello {{!}} EVPA |url=https://www.evpa.ngo/people/nicholas-costello |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=www.evpa.ngo}}</ref> They have 2 children, Khalil and Anabella.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-635723/nicholas-costello-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people|access-date=2021-06-08|website=www.myheritage.com|title=Nicholas Costello}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pamela Zuber|date=2015-06-02|title=Writing clip_PZ_Abiola-Costello|url=https://www.slideshare.net/PamelaZuber/writing-clippzabiolacostello-48910661}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Driscoll |first=Margarette |title=They shot my mother. She fights on through me |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/they-shot-my-mother-she-fights-on-through-me-mm0w9tl93z0 |access-date=2022-10-15 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
== Awards and recognition ==
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*''Andover Alumni Award of Distinction,'' 2013<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andover Alumni Award of Distinction |url=https://www.andover.edu/alumni/alumni-recognition/andover-alumni-award-of-distinction |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Andover {{!}} An independent and inclusive coed boarding high school |language=en-US}}</ref>
*''Goi Peace Award'', 2016<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-01 |title=2016 Goi Peace Award Laureate {{!}} The Goi Peace Foundation |url=https://www.goipeace.or.jp/en/work/award/award-2016/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=www.goipeace.or.jp |language=en-US}}</ref>
*''[[Foreign Policy]] Diplomat of the Year Award'', 2016<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=F. P. |title=Watch FP's Diplomat of the Year Awards |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/17/watch-fps-diplomat-of-the-year-awards/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Foreign Policy |date=17 November 2016 |language=en-US}}</ref>
*''[[National Civil Rights Museum]]’s Freedom Award'', 2019<ref>{{Cite web |last=BlackPressUSA/NNPA |date=2019-10-06 |title=Nigerian Activist Hafsat Abiola Selected as Honoree for National Civil Rights
== See also ==
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[[Category:People from Lagos]]
[[Category:Nigerian women activists]]
[[Category:Abiola family|Hafsat]]
[[Category:Nigerian expatriates in the United States]]
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