“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.”
Quote by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a prominent economist and public administrator from Nigeria. She has held senior positions in both the public and private sectors, including serving as Nigeria's Minister of Finance and later as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Okonjo-Iweala has extensive experience in international development and has been instrumental in economic reforms across Africa. more
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