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Nigeria's first female mechanic

doing but for me to become the first female mechanic in Nigeria I had to work five times harder than the way the men would work prove myself many people they don't know me by my...

Course: Remarkable lives and personal changeSection: Women breaking barriersSubtitles: en

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4:23

I knew what I was

4:23

doing but for me to become the first

4:25

female mechanic in Nigeria I had to work

4:28

five times harder than the way the men

4:30

would work

4:32

prove myself many people they don't know

4:34

me by my name is Lady mechanic

4:36

everywhere I go now a lot of guests

4:39

wants to come to Nigeria to learn how to

4:41

discuss

4:43

it's the best job in the world for any

4:47

woman I say

4:50

foreign

4:59

80 years of age

5:02

[Music]

5:07

I bench press

5:10

110 pounds

5:13

I started training at age 71.

5:18

I was named the oldest female

5:22

competitive bodybuilder at the Guinness

5:25

Book of World Records

5:31

my sister and I started exercising

5:34

together

5:36

I had never done any type of exercising

5:41

before

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