Nigerian female billionaire Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has passed a good statement which has been considered by many as one that’s worthy of taken as best advice to Nigerian women and Africa parents at large.
The Nigerian-American economist and international development expert who sits on the boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, and the African Risk Capacity says “Investing in women is smart economist…”
The bilionaire also added that, in as much as investing in women is a smart economist, it is way smarter when girls are supported and pushed to the upstream at their younger age.
She added that “… and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economist.
Okonjo-Iweala who spent a 25-year career at the World Bank as a development economist, scaling the ranks to the Number 2 position of Managing Director, Operations has also been appointed as the new World Trade Organition (WTO) Director-General.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala current net worth is estimated and purged at $49.3B
A woman of such worht is advising Africa parents to invest in theri girls and on a larger sclae, telling Africa to invest in women in general.
