End-of-the-week highlight: welcoming global leaders to our UNGA side event. 🚀 From the public sector: His Excellency, the Vice President of Nigeria, Senator Kashim Shettima, represented by Distinguished Senator Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President; His Excellencies, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Executive Governor, Lagos State; Gov. Dauda Lawal, Executive Governor, Zamfara State; and Gov. Dikko Radda, Executive Governor, Katsina State. Also, Honourable Minister Taiwo Oyedele, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy; Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs; Dr. Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure, Honourable Minister of State, FCT, and Honourable Ambassador, His Excellency, the Ambassador of Nigeria to the United States, Ambassador Lateef Kayode Are. Also thankful for the presence of these companies: Flour Mills, Stanel Group, OpenAI, Resilience17, International Development Finance Corporation, 500 Global, Fairfax Africa Fund (IA Advisory Board), Africa50, Africa Finance Corporation, Itana, Amazon, CBGM, Goldman Sachs International, Tuskie Capital LLC, Techpoint Africa, AltSchool Africa, Symbion Power, Tolfino Capital, DLA Piper Africa, Elin Group, UKO Services INC, AFC, Absa Bank. Deeply grateful to the Vice President and distinguished guests, such as Dr. Stanley Uzochukwu, and to the Flutterwave and Invest Africa teams for an amazing job!

Brilliant roundtable at Bridgforte Dialogues during UNGA 81 last week with Anna Gincherman, Founding Partner - ConsumerCentriX, and Yinka Adegoke - Africa Editor, Semafor. Grateful to Madam @aishahmad, founder of Bridgforte Dialogues, for convening such an insightful gathering, and to the Bridgforte team for having me back. Wonderful to connect with everyone who joined the conversation!