How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester. - Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili

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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

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About Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili

Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili (born 28 April 1963) is an economic policy expert, an advocate for transparency, accountability, good governance and human capital development, a humanitarian and activist. She is a former vice president for the World Bank (Africa region), co-founder and founding director of Transparency International, co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement and has served twice as federal Minister in Nigeria.

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Native Name: Obiageli Ezekwesili
Alternative Names: Madam due process Oby Ezekwesili
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There is no way the movement can be abandoned. Have you not noticed how frequently we change leadership? It is a model for how to run institutions in Africa. This is a movement that has been on the basis of the sweat of Nigerians. We told ourselves from the very beginning that we will not take a dime from anybody.

But education is the heartbeat of human capital development. When we say human development, we are talking of education and health. We need healthy human beings who you then give education. That is human development. The programme that we have is very interesting. Number one matter for us in the education reform programmw is to completely change the position of the teachers in our education system because research has showed us that almost 60 per cent of learning outcome is determined by the quality of the teacher in the class room.

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