“Beyond the kitchen and ‘the other room’, today we celebrate Nigerian women powering change through innovation and creativity. Today, we celebrate women powering change in the kitchen of creativity, cooking the food that feed the human mind with their artistic, literary, musical, and cinematographic works, making symphonic expressions that sing of change. Today, we celebrate women powering change in ‘the other room’ of innovation, making babies that grow to become new businesses, new industries, new technologies, and new possibilities.”- Senator Iyere Ihenyen