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

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.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

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

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

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