"Our objective is to look into issues related to communicable diseases, maternal and child health and even non communicable disease and access to quality healthcare."

"When they started working in these countries, WHO decided that they should also increase the number of countries that can use this initiative."

"The only way women’s contribution to national development can be appreciated is by electing a woman as president."

"We were awarded a research grant by World Health Organisation (WHO), to research in Social Innovation in Health"

"Social innovation in health started in 2014 and at that time WHO."

"Collaborated with London School of Tropical Medicine and discovered that certain diseases were found in Africa."

"So it is time for us to start looking within and to find solutions within ourselves and some vulnerable groups in remote areas to know some of their problems."

"Outcomes of this retreat will shape the future of the CAAPs initiative. We aim to finalize comprehensive plans, secure commitments, and outline a clear roadmap for the implementation of our demonstration projects. These projects, as models of integrated agro-industrial development, will pave the way for large-scale investments and policy innovations across Africa."

"Broader vision of the African Union to achieve sustainable development and prosperity for all its citizens."

"During my research, I found out that poverty seemed to have the face of a woman"

"When I looked at statistics, from what they were saying, it was more like everywhere you go, you could do statistics"

"When I asked myself, 'what do you really want to do', I enjoyed teaching Sunday school classes, I always loved research, I loved being in the library, I loved finding out, and I told myself, look, if this is what you want to do, if you have just one chance again in life to get it right, what would you do? So I told myself, I want to do research and I want to be in academia"

"But my mother, because she was working in the bank, and then she had more demand on her time, was quite impatient with my incessant questions"

"Food security is also heavily dependent on the seed security of the farming community and Seed sector development is essential to foster agricultural growth."

"When I was a child, I remember my mother sometimes exclaiming that I was too inquisitive. They always complained about my inquisitiveness. I always wanted to ask questions"

"It will target women who bear the burden of African agriculture."

"The difference in our heights was getting closer. So I, you know, as a child, I didn't realize I was getting taller. So I asked my grandmom, why are you getting shorter? Because to me, I could see that she seemed to be getting shorter. And then she simply told me that when people get older, they get shorter. She (grandmother) was more patient with me”"

"The project will contribute to the development of an African strategy for sustainable agricultural mechanization within the context of the Malabo Declaration."

"The potential benefits from the use of good quality seed by farmers can be enormous, and the availability to farmers of quality seed of a wide-range of varieties and crops can increase productivity, reduce risks from pest, drought and disease pressure, and increase incomes."

"It will enhance the capacity of governments to integrate agricultural mechanization in their policy frameworks."

"I'm humbled and honoured to be named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network @WXN"

"Remember that our success depends on our ability to work together, share knowledge, and leverage the strengths of each partner. The challenges we face are significant, but so are the opportunities."

"I'm a winner in the Science and Tech category, recognizing my contributions and commitment to tech advancement as well as diversity and inclusion in #STEM."

"The aim of the study was to confirm the claims by traditional medical practitioners that the selected plants can enhance memory. Beyond confirming that these plants are effective, we also targeted identifying the constituents in the plants that are responsible for the activity."

"The main predisposing factor to memory loss is aging."

"Which means every single person is at risk of losing their memory as we grow old."

"We know the various challenges which are faced in Africa in terms of accessibility to medicine, unlike in the Western world."

"If we as Africans can produce our own drugs from our own resources, the impact can only be imagined both in terms of a better wellbeing as well as economic advancement."

"This is indeed a breakthrough. First, we were able to provide scientific justification for the use of these plants in ethno-medicine. In addition, the possible chemical compounds responsible for the activity were identified."

"And it should always echoes in our ears that, there is reward for everything we are doing on earth because we would face judgement from God."

"You don't need to be a politician before empowering people who are in need just like what Prof. Durosinmi is doing."

"What we should be conscious of now is life after death because it will takes the grace of God to live extra thirty years from today."

"We must altogether assist our youths to achieve their full potentials by creating the enabling environment for them."

"We must do all we can to increase the opportunity of women to grow, to defend, protect, and facilitate children's sound, physical and psychological development through promotion of activities to alleviate poverty."

"Youths cannot make positive contributions to national development if not given opportunity to do so."

"In view of the current economic situation, the foundation further increase the value of the grants for meaningful impact in addition to some empowerment equipment."

"INSIGHT into Diversity, an online and print publication in the United States, gave me the Inspiring Women in STEM Award in 2016 in recognition of my effort in training underrepresented minorities for over two decades."

"In 2017, it was rewarding to receive the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, which allowed me to work on prostate cancer risk among men with institutions in Nigeria, including the University of Ilorin, and Covenant University."

"The black population is disproportionately affected by cancer globally. I worked with several experts and institutions"

"The Global Oncology Clinical Trials Congress for blacks is very dear to my heart given the underrepresentation of the black population in clinical trials."

"AORTIC is the premier organisation for cancer research and training in Africa. As the chair of the AORTIC research committee, I work with outstanding cancer scientists within and outside Africa to provide scientific leadership and direction for cancer research in Africa."

"You don’t have to strive to be liked but always strive to be respected for your work."

"My ammunition for overcoming this discrimination is hard work and undeniable productivity and output."

"I see the work that I do as a calling – the scientific discoveries that we achieve impact lives and that gives me the strength to wake up the next morning and keep going."

"In the United States, what I have experienced as a woman is gender discrimination. It is coincidental that the earliest recollection of gender discrimination that I experienced was made by a female professor when I was in graduate school. The female professor told me that I would not be able to finish my graduate programme because I got married and was pregnant in my first year of graduate school"

"Women in research, especially biomedical research, face many obstacles and discrimination. Earlier in my career, the perception was that a woman had to choose between having a family and a career."

"As far back as 2009, my leadership in health disparities research was recognised by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Association of Black Health-System Pharmacists with the inaugural leadership award for health disparities. I was selected by the US Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to give the inaugural Barbara Terry-Koroma Health Disparity Legacy Lecture in 2013."

"In Nigeria, while I was at the University of Ife, one of the things that I (and so many women) had to deal with was the sexual predators."

"My laboratory is referred to as a German laboratory because most (85%) of the equipment I have in my laboratory was bought wiith the German funding by by either the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation or the German Research Foundation (DFG)."