what would a surgeon come and tell
students probably most surgical students
are in th I’m chica talking and then I
inflected and I said okay but I’m not a
surgeon that’s what I do I’m not a woman
that’s my gender I’m not a Muslim
that’s my religion and I said my
identity is not a mother because I have
six kids or a wife because I happen to
have a husband who by the way is a house
I magnin could divorce me tomorrow
I thought I should speak on reflections
and reflection I’m not reflecting what
has happened I’m talking about
reflections and by the way for those of
you who are scientists I’m not talking
about reflection in physics I’m talking
of reflection in humanities and so
therefore why reflection why did I
choose to talk to students about
reflection I’m choosing to talk to
students about reflection because
reflection is perhaps the singular most
important thing that differentiates
human beings Homo sapiens from all other
animals all living things we learnt in
biology eat they have some water there
rest they reproduce they breathe we do
everything a dog does we do everything a
cat does the only thing we do that these
animals don’t do things that have to do
with our medial prefrontal cortex our
circular area and that is about thinking
thinking and I’m choosing for us to talk
about reflections because unfortunately
while today we saw the value and the
beauty of technology we saw how we got
prices for tweeting we got how right now
as I’m speaking it’s possible because
I’ve been tweeting thousands and
thousands of people will be watching yet
it comes with its side effects and as a
doctor I’ll tell you that there’s no
singular thing on earth that does not
have side effect in fact for those of
you who are Muslims
I can make joke about Muslims because I
happen to be one and I will not be
misconstrued for those of you who are
Muslims and who spent three five hours
in the night praying because there’s an
upcoming exam you put your forehead on
the floor over time you have a mark that
signifies you pray long long hours but
that’s not equivalent to passing exams
so
opportunity costs what do you want to do
now I’m also choosing to talk about
reflections because it is reflections
that has made me who I am and I’m
telling you that there’s no singular
person on earth that has ever turned the
wheel or discovered something with our
reflections and I’m choosing to talk
about this because this is the one
attribute of a humanist that we are
almost on the verge of losing imagine
your life all of you when you wake up in
the morning for those of you who are
Muslims jobs before you rush into the
toilet to have to ease yourself and do
ablution you look at your food to see if
there was an urgent message for those of
you who are Christians you look at your
phone before you kneel down to pray and
sometimes even after the ablution you
look at your phone you sit in class you
tweet Instagram Facebook everything you
do everything that technology allows the
only thing we do not give ourselves
permission to do is to reflect now what
this is I want to put forward to you is
that it doesn’t matter how you read it
doesn’t matter how you tweet it doesn’t
matter how much you’re in social media
you cannot make progress without
reflection because that’s the difference
between your yesterday and today and
that’s the barrier between your today
and tomorrow so therefore I had work for
mr. gates so I had worked very closely
and had seen how he thought for those of
you that are doing economics at what
pretty closely with Jeffrey Sachs and
had seen him a lot of people who make
things happen take time off to think
thinking is the only thing that makes us
move from stage a two-stage be
the question I want to ask is how much
time do you take tape to simply think
when I told my friends that when I am on
vacation especially when I was in the
Gates Foundation because it’s intense
you go to work you close at 5:00 and
that’s when Seattle wakes up so you
literally literally I work literally
almost 14 hours everyday 15 hours every
day but when I’m on holiday and
literally switch my computer off put off
my computer put off my everything put it
in the wardrobe lock it up and that is
it no phone no tweeting no emails no
nothing and that for me is a singular
most important part of my time and my
life as I progress I’m using this to
raise a story of a lot of people ask me
how do you do what you do you can only
follow your passion we’ve had about
passion we’ve heard about dreams we’ve
heard about making impact in the lives
of people you can only find that little
niche that is yours when you reflect and
having time to reflect is not about
talking about it if you tweet about
reflection is important I’m not sure
you’ve gotten anything what will make a
difference is when you go to bed tonight
the last one hour of your day don’t look
don’t look at your accounts don’t look
at anything simply switch off lie on
your bed reflect on what you’ve had
today and then you would have done
justice to the people who invest that
time today share in their lives with you
now I as a young girl growing up I had a
dream I wanted to be a pilot and at that
time no girls were taken into the pilot
in school and there were only two two
professions that the best students in
the school do
you’re either a doctor or an engineer if
you’re in the sciences and if you under
add to your lawyer an accountant and I
was a science student so I was divided
between medicine and engineer and I was
offered both opportunities so I took to
go and study medicine and I did study
medicine but while studying medicine
what did I find
luckily I was very well privileged to
have learned early in life that when you
go to communities what you see is really
the reality of the life of the people
training as I said I did my
undergraduate thesis on the psyche of a
general fistula because I was amazed at
how could a woman be going all over the
place and she’s smelling urine I was
disturbed I decided to study obstetrics
and gynaecology so here I came to a B
you spent six years as postgraduate I
didn’t repeat that’s a minimum day yes
you spend to become a gynecologist so
six years I then became a surgeon and
then I was treating one person at a time
one surgery at a time one patient at a
time that’s not me I reflected is that
how many days do I have and how many
days am I going to how many patients am
I going to see I don’t looked at it the
main reason why girls and women and if
you look at the statistics in Nigeria
for high maternal mortality and child
mortality is simple I come from the
north of Nigeria a lot of it comes from
lack of education of women completion of
secondary school happens to be the
highest denominator in determining the
health of women and
so I decided to go to public health but
then as a public health physician yes I
was educating women after the fact when
they’re sick or before the Owen they’re
adult so now for the most part of my
life and this comes from reflection I
said is this what I really want to do
and believe it or not believe it or not
in every bad situation there’s some good
if only you reflect in every bad
situation there’s some good if only you
reflect my big-ass reflection came with
the Boko Haram insurgency in the
Northeast I happen to come from Bordeaux
and my village was taken over for over a
year by Boko Haram that was my
inspiration to finally tilt the way of
what I do my reflection took me to the
fact that whatever I did as a doctor is
limited until I stopped or I walk myself
out of the job until I stopped as many
women from sin doctors as possible and
for me that comes with education and
therefore so as I thought and thought I
reflected the one thing that came to me
and I said to you Boko Haram gave me an
inspiration I had a dream and my dream
is to defeat Boko Haram and I’m serious
for those of you who do not understand
how the Boko Haram literally means
Western education or forbidden Western
education kind of forbidden Western
education so no Western education is not
no stronger than no is forbidden with an
education and that because over the
years over since I was in a BU over the
last 20 years or so because I’m under
North and I understand that the only
reason why I am Who I am is because my
parents saw the value in education and
they decided to invest in my education
otherwise I could be one of those men
women now I thought myself and horribly
ki-suh a blessed memory decided that we
need to give back to where we come from
we decided which saturd a program called
girl child concerns we started giving
scholarship to young girls and we harass
our friends to give scholarship to one
girls now
my decision to defeat Boko Haram comes
from the fact that I believe that the
only way we can defeat Boko Haram is
and there’s no better way of making sure
boku is hollow then giving boku to young
girls from Boko Haram areas so they’re
filled we started taking girls that have
been affected by the insurgency girls
that have been whose parents have been
killed girls from the IDP camps girls in
whose presence their fathers was big was
the father’s were beheaded their mothers
were raped where their brothers were
killed we took them and took them out of
the Northeast and put them back to
school and currently we have lots a lot
of girls finishing school and going back
to their parents by the way we have four
in Notre Dame University in the US now
study now that’s not enough we just have
about we just did about five hundred if
we’re going to defeat Boko Haram we have
to get girls in the thousands from Boko
Haram areas finishing school so
therefore even though I’m a surgeon who
has said we’re now having a school in
Borno where we’re going to have
thousands of girls affected by Boko
Haram go to school finish and they all
become every one of them becomes like me
like Excellency like anyone
and so therefore give us ten years in
ten years born oh the seat of Boko Haram
is going to be the Balu that’s flooded
so for me it’s not what I did
that’s important is the process is the
process how did it come about from a
very contented surgeon at a medieval a
university to the head of the Gates
Foundation having lots and lots of
salary big salary to do in charity work
and having that inspiration it only
comes from reflections and so therefore
my gift is and honestly speaking it
would have failed me and filled yourself
if tonight you do not take at least the
last one hour I’ll reflect on the so
many things people spoke about today I
always say that any talk without an
actual point at the end is actually just
a talk what difference will it make in
my life what difference will it make in
your life
so therefore as you go back I want to
urge you to reflect to reflect on what
we’ve heard today to reflect on our
current situation in Nigeria to reflect
on the so many assumptions we have
through which we actually share and
check off our responsibilities and for a
change take charge and be the one in
charge of your destiny and be the one in
charge of the destiny of Nigeria because
nobody nobody nobody is going to change
our situation until we change what is within ourselves
students probably most surgical students
are in th I’m chica talking and then I
inflected and I said okay but I’m not a
surgeon that’s what I do I’m not a woman
that’s my gender I’m not a Muslim
that’s my religion and I said my
identity is not a mother because I have
six kids or a wife because I happen to
have a husband who by the way is a house
I magnin could divorce me tomorrow
I thought I should speak on reflections
and reflection I’m not reflecting what
has happened I’m talking about
reflections and by the way for those of
you who are scientists I’m not talking
about reflection in physics I’m talking
of reflection in humanities and so
therefore why reflection why did I
choose to talk to students about
reflection I’m choosing to talk to
students about reflection because
reflection is perhaps the singular most
important thing that differentiates
human beings Homo sapiens from all other
animals all living things we learnt in
biology eat they have some water there
rest they reproduce they breathe we do
everything a dog does we do everything a
cat does the only thing we do that these
animals don’t do things that have to do
with our medial prefrontal cortex our
circular area and that is about thinking
thinking and I’m choosing for us to talk
about reflections because unfortunately
while today we saw the value and the
beauty of technology we saw how we got
prices for tweeting we got how right now
as I’m speaking it’s possible because
I’ve been tweeting thousands and
thousands of people will be watching yet
it comes with its side effects and as a
doctor I’ll tell you that there’s no
singular thing on earth that does not
have side effect in fact for those of
you who are Muslims
I can make joke about Muslims because I
happen to be one and I will not be
misconstrued for those of you who are
Muslims and who spent three five hours
in the night praying because there’s an
upcoming exam you put your forehead on
the floor over time you have a mark that
signifies you pray long long hours but
that’s not equivalent to passing exams
so
opportunity costs what do you want to do
now I’m also choosing to talk about
reflections because it is reflections
that has made me who I am and I’m
telling you that there’s no singular
person on earth that has ever turned the
wheel or discovered something with our
reflections and I’m choosing to talk
about this because this is the one
attribute of a humanist that we are
almost on the verge of losing imagine
your life all of you when you wake up in
the morning for those of you who are
Muslims jobs before you rush into the
toilet to have to ease yourself and do
ablution you look at your food to see if
there was an urgent message for those of
you who are Christians you look at your
phone before you kneel down to pray and
sometimes even after the ablution you
look at your phone you sit in class you
tweet Instagram Facebook everything you
do everything that technology allows the
only thing we do not give ourselves
permission to do is to reflect now what
this is I want to put forward to you is
that it doesn’t matter how you read it
doesn’t matter how you tweet it doesn’t
matter how much you’re in social media
you cannot make progress without
reflection because that’s the difference
between your yesterday and today and
that’s the barrier between your today
and tomorrow so therefore I had work for
mr. gates so I had worked very closely
and had seen how he thought for those of
you that are doing economics at what
pretty closely with Jeffrey Sachs and
had seen him a lot of people who make
things happen take time off to think
thinking is the only thing that makes us
move from stage a two-stage be
the question I want to ask is how much
time do you take tape to simply think
when I told my friends that when I am on
vacation especially when I was in the
Gates Foundation because it’s intense
you go to work you close at 5:00 and
that’s when Seattle wakes up so you
literally literally I work literally
almost 14 hours everyday 15 hours every
day but when I’m on holiday and
literally switch my computer off put off
my computer put off my everything put it
in the wardrobe lock it up and that is
it no phone no tweeting no emails no
nothing and that for me is a singular
most important part of my time and my
life as I progress I’m using this to
raise a story of a lot of people ask me
how do you do what you do you can only
follow your passion we’ve had about
passion we’ve heard about dreams we’ve
heard about making impact in the lives
of people you can only find that little
niche that is yours when you reflect and
having time to reflect is not about
talking about it if you tweet about
reflection is important I’m not sure
you’ve gotten anything what will make a
difference is when you go to bed tonight
the last one hour of your day don’t look
don’t look at your accounts don’t look
at anything simply switch off lie on
your bed reflect on what you’ve had
today and then you would have done
justice to the people who invest that
time today share in their lives with you
now I as a young girl growing up I had a
dream I wanted to be a pilot and at that
time no girls were taken into the pilot
in school and there were only two two
professions that the best students in
the school do
you’re either a doctor or an engineer if
you’re in the sciences and if you under
add to your lawyer an accountant and I
was a science student so I was divided
between medicine and engineer and I was
offered both opportunities so I took to
go and study medicine and I did study
medicine but while studying medicine
what did I find
luckily I was very well privileged to
have learned early in life that when you
go to communities what you see is really
the reality of the life of the people
training as I said I did my
undergraduate thesis on the psyche of a
general fistula because I was amazed at
how could a woman be going all over the
place and she’s smelling urine I was
disturbed I decided to study obstetrics
and gynaecology so here I came to a B
you spent six years as postgraduate I
didn’t repeat that’s a minimum day yes
you spend to become a gynecologist so
six years I then became a surgeon and
then I was treating one person at a time
one surgery at a time one patient at a
time that’s not me I reflected is that
how many days do I have and how many
days am I going to how many patients am
I going to see I don’t looked at it the
main reason why girls and women and if
you look at the statistics in Nigeria
for high maternal mortality and child
mortality is simple I come from the
north of Nigeria a lot of it comes from
lack of education of women completion of
secondary school happens to be the
highest denominator in determining the
health of women and
so I decided to go to public health but
then as a public health physician yes I
was educating women after the fact when
they’re sick or before the Owen they’re
adult so now for the most part of my
life and this comes from reflection I
said is this what I really want to do
and believe it or not believe it or not
in every bad situation there’s some good
if only you reflect in every bad
situation there’s some good if only you
reflect my big-ass reflection came with
the Boko Haram insurgency in the
Northeast I happen to come from Bordeaux
and my village was taken over for over a
year by Boko Haram that was my
inspiration to finally tilt the way of
what I do my reflection took me to the
fact that whatever I did as a doctor is
limited until I stopped or I walk myself
out of the job until I stopped as many
women from sin doctors as possible and
for me that comes with education and
therefore so as I thought and thought I
reflected the one thing that came to me
and I said to you Boko Haram gave me an
inspiration I had a dream and my dream
is to defeat Boko Haram and I’m serious
for those of you who do not understand
how the Boko Haram literally means
Western education or forbidden Western
education kind of forbidden Western
education so no Western education is not
no stronger than no is forbidden with an
education and that because over the
years over since I was in a BU over the
last 20 years or so because I’m under
North and I understand that the only
reason why I am Who I am is because my
parents saw the value in education and
they decided to invest in my education
otherwise I could be one of those men
women now I thought myself and horribly
ki-suh a blessed memory decided that we
need to give back to where we come from
we decided which saturd a program called
girl child concerns we started giving
scholarship to young girls and we harass
our friends to give scholarship to one
girls now
my decision to defeat Boko Haram comes
from the fact that I believe that the
only way we can defeat Boko Haram is
and there’s no better way of making sure
boku is hollow then giving boku to young
girls from Boko Haram areas so they’re
filled we started taking girls that have
been affected by the insurgency girls
that have been whose parents have been
killed girls from the IDP camps girls in
whose presence their fathers was big was
the father’s were beheaded their mothers
were raped where their brothers were
killed we took them and took them out of
the Northeast and put them back to
school and currently we have lots a lot
of girls finishing school and going back
to their parents by the way we have four
in Notre Dame University in the US now
study now that’s not enough we just have
about we just did about five hundred if
we’re going to defeat Boko Haram we have
to get girls in the thousands from Boko
Haram areas finishing school so
therefore even though I’m a surgeon who
has said we’re now having a school in
Borno where we’re going to have
thousands of girls affected by Boko
Haram go to school finish and they all
become every one of them becomes like me
like Excellency like anyone
and so therefore give us ten years in
ten years born oh the seat of Boko Haram
is going to be the Balu that’s flooded
so for me it’s not what I did
that’s important is the process is the
process how did it come about from a
very contented surgeon at a medieval a
university to the head of the Gates
Foundation having lots and lots of
salary big salary to do in charity work
and having that inspiration it only
comes from reflections and so therefore
my gift is and honestly speaking it
would have failed me and filled yourself
if tonight you do not take at least the
last one hour I’ll reflect on the so
many things people spoke about today I
always say that any talk without an
actual point at the end is actually just
a talk what difference will it make in
my life what difference will it make in
your life
so therefore as you go back I want to
urge you to reflect to reflect on what
we’ve heard today to reflect on our
current situation in Nigeria to reflect
on the so many assumptions we have
through which we actually share and
check off our responsibilities and for a
change take charge and be the one in
charge of your destiny and be the one in
charge of the destiny of Nigeria because
nobody nobody nobody is going to change
our situation until we change what is within ourselves
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