Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which,…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala