Boma Ozobia at BD Conference

For women generally, in Nigeria and all over the world we face a lot of barriers so how important do you think it is to inspire women everywhere to go forward and attain high goals?

You can’t over state the importance of that particularly in the challenging times we are facing in Nigeria as a country. You know we are dealing with insurgency, we are dealing with EVD, and we have doctors on strike at the moment. It’s easy to get disillusioned and to feel discouraged. So this sort of inspirational and sort of positive engagement can only help particularly in these challenging circumstances and sometimes women feel that there are more against us than for us and sharing experiences, hearing that you are not the only one who’s faced it, these are the tools with which I dealt with it, that sort of information helps…