Pakistani female education activist, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, has expressed satisfaction with the Nigerian foods and culture, describing the country’s puff puff as amazing and the best she has ever eaten.

She stated this while speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Friday, July 14, 2023.

Yousafzai said she ate Nigerian puff puff just before her speech at the United Nations, noting that the puff was “amazing.”

The Nobel laureate said, “I traveled so much around the world that every place seems like home. For me, I feel like I am a global citizen. We should celebrate each other’s cultures and traditions and enjoy the food. I mean, I love jollof rice, plantain, and the food here.

“I also tried puff puff, it was amazing. Just before my speech at the UN, I was so hungry and I had like five minutes. And then I ate one puff puff and that was amazing. It was the best thing I took before the speech,” she stated.

Recall that Yousafzai is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.

She is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native homeland, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen.

In 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban militants, who were enforcing a ban on girl-child education.

But, the girl child-education advocate delivered a powerful speech at the UN on July 12, 2013 to mark her 16th birthday.

The UN would later declare July 12 ‘Malala Day’ in 2014 — in honor of her advocacy and support for girl-child education across the world.

Yousafzai visited Nigeria this week, where she met with Vice President Kashim Shettima.

She called on political leaders to invest more in girl-child education.