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When you have a big sister like me, your problem will never be cash but how to spend your money.

— Dora Akunyili

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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

The most serious challenge was corruption and conflict of interest.

I am convinced that Nigeria should remain as one nation after 100 years despite her challenges because our common values overwhelm our differences.

Mr Chairman, distinguished delegates, I leave you with the words of these Greek proverb “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

Women tend to be less corrupt and more focused. There are many more great women leaders out there who need to be given a chance.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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