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

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

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

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

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

[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.

Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies