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Wow. We do stuff in as far-flunged places as Iraq.

Jenifa_:
lol. this is exactly why Nigeria has not has a Igbo president in ages. God knows we might even never have one (if we split).

I personally will vote for Ngozi as president if she accomplishes enough as finance minister for Nigerian people. World Bank for example doesn't have a good track record of helping African people positively. and that is one reason why I don't care too much for her. who knows if she really represents Nigerian interests or World bank interests.
I would vote Fashola over Ngozi anyday. and Fashola hasn't accomplished anything according to your silly definitions of success.but he has accomplished plenty according to my definition.

Your Fasola is a hype. Erosion, flood and dirt is killing Lagos and your SW media keep hyping him, while he steals Lagos blind, in cohort with the master thief Tinubu.
I will have you know that your Fasola begins and ends in the SW, no one knows or cares about him elsewhere.
BTW, have you finished the milk in your feeding bottle? I have some baby juice for you.

Jenifa_:
I'm just starting to realize that as well. Igbo people definitely see her as God. lol

Silly Arrow going about on all Ngozi thread. I hope you do not choke with inferiority complex.

She is our ''god'', much as Tinubu the drug pusher is yours. Live with it or die trying to.

Jenifa_:
no woman is the most successful woman. tayo ogunlesi is just one of THOUSANDS of successful yoruba women. and I used that example because she was mentioned in the video on the first page.

i'm sorry if Ngozi is your idea of the most successful woman.lol

You be proper Ode. You have your Yoruba women only in your dreams

Ngozi is serving to help lift you from poverty, and to prepare herself to become the first female president of Nigeria

Bio:
BS Harvard
Ph.D. MIT
VP, World Bank
Finance Minister, Nigeria
Foreign Affairs Minister, Nigeria
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA
MD, World Bank
Finance Minister, Nigeria
Plus tens of other secondary positions she is holding.
President Nigeria (in anticipation)
Let me see you produce any female, Yoruba or not,  that can beat that status.

Jenifa_:
Zno,

your stupidity is out of this world. I have no comment for you infact.
grow up a bit and come back to open your mouth.

Your most successful Yoruba woman is a tailor and garment maker advertising herself on cyberspace. Oh! How much Oyo empire has fallen.
She is not fit to untie the shoe lace of even the MD of EMZOR pharmaceutical company, Lagos. Now run along, little sissy, your bottled food is getting cold.
Olodo! Ngozi had been a Finance minister (first naija woman) and Foreign affairs (first naija woman too) minister in the past. Both Obj and, now, GEJ had to beg her to come serve in both cases.

Obama wannabe

Not surprised, he being an Igbo man.

With this, the thread is declared dead, buried and forgotten.

Fstranger opened it to try to smear Ngozi
Now it turns out she gets better than ya'll.
Failed mission, Iragbijili

I dey laugh ohh!!!

Una no fit name one Yoruba woman that can stand soldier to soldier with Ngozi

Okay I lower the bar
Name one that can match
Oby Ezekwesili
Dora Akunyili
Arunmah Oteh (President of SEC and former VP of African Development Bank)

I know you may now be able to name one, Olufunmilayo Olapade, in this second category.

Believe it or not, Ngozi is the most accomplished woman in Nigeria, past and present.

Biography of Adenike OGUNLESI
Nigeria > Business : Adenike OGUNLESI



Biography :

Adenike Ogunlesi is a Nigerian woman who founded the brilliantly-named children's clothing business, Ruff ‘N' Tumble, in Lagos in 1996. It has become a great success story and exports along the West African coast.


Adenike Ogunlesi is the founder and chief executive of Ruff 'N' Tumble an indigenous clothing company in Nigeria that specialises in children's clothing. From a tiny shop with her and her mother as the main staff, Adenike aka Nike turned Ruff 'n' Tumble into an instantly recognizable brand. She has built a reputation for being one of the best manufacturers of children's clothing in Nigeria.

"My kids ran out of pajamas. And I used to make clothing for women. So I decided that I'd just make some pajamas for my kids. "

In her second year as an undergraduate law student at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Adenike opted out of school unsure of what to do with her life. She then reluctantly accepted her mother's invitation to work in her womens tailor shop. That experience helped her to discover who she was and what she wanted to do.She is yet another university graduate that never practiced her profession for one day. Trained as a lawyer at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, her father had wanted her to get into a high profile legal practice. But that was not to be. She refused to live out her fathers script. But her mother who made quite an in road into fashion in Ibadan in the early 60s and 70s, asked her to stay with her. Within one year, she said she discovered herself.


"I started in 1996, I was selling from the back of my car, I was selling at bazaars. Everywhere, there was a bazaar, I was there, my table and my suit case, my children and sometimes even my husband. So it all started then."

Today Ruff 'N' Tumble is a thriving business with 50 employees and distribution along the West African coast.

"We don't export now. Export to the West African coast, yes, all along the West African coast, yes, but to say, America or to England, I'm not interested in it at all. If 40 percent of the 120 million people in Nigeria are children, I have the potential of a huge market here."

Adenike was featured in the Africa Open for Business documentary and was recognized as the Fate Foundation Model Entrepreneur in 2005.
She is a mentor to Junior Achievement of Nigeria and the Fate Foundation.


Mrs Adenike Ogunlesi (Ruff 'n' Tumble) Mrs Adenike Ogunlesi, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Ruff 'n' Tumble, the burgeoning garment making for children is yet another university graduate that never practiced her profession for one day. Trained as a lawyer at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, her father had wanted her to get into a high profile legal practice. But that was not to be. She refused to live out her fathers script. But her mother who made quite an in road into fashion in Ibadan in the early 60s and 70s, asked her to stay with her. Within one year, she said she discovered herself.

^^^^^^^
Jenifa

That above is your version of successful woman. The woman you cite for me. Even my senior cousin who is an Ariaria trader who flies to Dubai, England, USA, China, South Africa every other week is more successful.

Jenifa_:
I definitely do not think that there is a single most accomplished person in Nigeria or any particular country. People have different areas of interest and the accomplished ones excel at it.
you should try rewatching the video.  at min 17:45, the only other woman Ngozi mentions as an example of successful African women is[b] Adenike Ogunlesi. [/b]a Yoruba woman.

Adenike Ogunlesi

By: Errol Mars

Company: Ruff 'n' Tumble

Position: Founder, CEO

Industry: Apparel

Country: Nigeria

Adenike Ogunlesi

Adenike Ogunlesi is the founder of Ruff 'n' Tumble, [b]a childrens clothing line in Nigeria. From a tiny shop with her and her mother as the main staff, [/b]Adenike aka Nike turned Ruff 'n' Tumble into an instantly recognizable brand. She has built a reputation for being one of the best manufacturers of children's clothing in Nigeria.

"My kids ran out of pajamas. And I used to make clothing for women. So I decided that I'd just make some pajamas for my kids. "

In her second year as an undergraduate law student at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Adenike opted out of school unsure of what to do with her life. She then reluctantly accepted her mother's invitation to work in he[b]r womens tailor shop[/b]. That experience helped her to discover who she was and what she wanted to do.

"I started in 1996, I was selling from the back of my car, I was selling at bazaars. Everywhere, there was a bazaar, I was there, my table and my suit case, my children and sometimes even my husband. So it all started then."

Today Ruff 'N' Tumble is a thriving business with 50 employees and distribution along the West African coast.

"We don't export now. Export to the West African coast, yes, all along the West African coast, yes, but to say, America or to England, I'm not interested in it at all. If 40 percent of the 120 million people in Nigeria are children, I have the potential of a huge market here."

Adenike was featured in the Africa Open for Business documentary and was recognized as the FATE Foundation Model Entrepreneur in 2005.

Jenifa_:
Lots of Yoruba women are more accomplished than Ngozi.
Ngozi herself will be the first one to admit to that.

I feel sorry for you that you value your worth based on what western institutions you are accepted in. u need to grow up. I do not believe for one second that you are a professor. maybe if you said TA then I might believe.

Believe whatever frigging thing you like. I give no rats ar.se to any of your belief because you are one damn inconsequential, faceless entity.  BTW, if you claim any Yoruba woman is more accomplished than Ngozi, please provide the person's name so we can clap for her.

aloy/emeka:
Is  prof Nnaji not an Engineer?. What will he possibly[b] contribute in the economic sector[/b]?. Also, is Dora not  a pharmacist? What can she possibly contribute to the economic sector?.   

Wow! written like a true genius.

May be we need to first define what economy means

gogo13233:
Please Aganga is way below the class of the people u listed here, imagine putting aganga side by side with soludo, haba Nigerians

I dont know who you are oh! But God bless you for this factual statement.

Re: Nigeria Is Trying To Develope Without Industrializing.

How possible is that? Develop with industrializing?
It's like jumping before crawling

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was educated at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with an A.B. in 1977, and earned her Ph.D. in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born June 13, 1954) is the newly appointed Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to this appointment, she was the Managing Director of World Bank (October 2007 - July 2011) and has also held the position of a Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Nigeria, between 2003 and 2006. She is notable for being the first woman to hold either of those positions. She served as finance minister from July 2003 until her appointment as foreign minister in June 2006, and as foreign minister until her resignation in August 2006. Okonjo-Iweala was considered as a possible replacement for former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.[1][2] Prior to her appointment as the Minister of Finance, she was the second highest paid employee of World Bank with disposable income of $351,740.[3]

She is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.[11] Okonjo-Iweala also serves on the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity and on the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.[12

Harvard will actually be begging her to come over

Ngozi;

Honors and awards

    Time Europe Hero 2004[8]
    This Day Nigeria Minister of the Year 2004[8]
    Euromoney Magazine Global Finance Minister of the year 2005[8]
    Financial Times/The Banker African Finance Minister 2005[8]
    Nigerian of the Year 2006.[13]
    Honorary Doctorate from Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
    Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland.
    Honorary Doctorate from Colby College, Maine, USA.
    Honorary Doctorate from Northern Caribbean University, Mandeville, Jamaica.
    Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA.

hahah! Ngozi was even honored with a doctorate by Brown University, an Ivy League