"My parents lost everything, all their savings, because……" — 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 Igbos."
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17 Quotes by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they…
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When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
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The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best…
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Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side…
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I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed,
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Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
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Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know…
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[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it…
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I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to…
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Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do…
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One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very…
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Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So…
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