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.

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

I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

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.

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.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.