12 Quotes by Obiageli Ezekwesili

I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.

There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.

The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.