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

— Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala

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It's about our common good, because these variants will come back if people are not vaccinated.

It’s not just about empowering women, it’s about economic growth.

We have a choice. Either we converge downwards by allowing the virus to drag us all back down, or we converge upwards by vaccinating the world.

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

Africa represents our fastest-growing region in the world. If you want to be relevant, you need to be in this part of the world.

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