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Sadly, the combination of poverty and ignorance is toxic and deadly.

— Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

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It is about squandering the commonwealth of the people, ostensibly for the benefit of the people but ultimately for the good of only a select few.

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Ekiti State became the first State in the country to domesticate the National Gender Policy.

We need to keep mentoring young women in ways that nurture them and prepare them for the harsh world of business, politics and public life. In doing this, we need to be able to set an example for them because they will practice what they see and not what they hear from us.

As women, regardless of our class, geographical location or educational status, we should be aware that we do not operate in a vacuum. We function within a context of patriarchal norms and values, which have been firmly entrenched over time, and which continue to be validated through culture, traditions and religious beliefs.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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