Nigeria Quotes - Page 2

• My political ambition
  is not worth the blood of any Nigerian

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Ambition, Blood, Political

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• I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Home, Eye, Years

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.

  Wole Soyinka

  Government, Leaving, Causes

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

  Susan Rice

  Rights, People, Political

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• Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.

  Tinie Tempah

  Beautiful, Nigeria Independence, Havens

  "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it...nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work.

  Aliko Dangote

  Giving, Together, Want

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• Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

  Bill Gates

  Broken, Income, Care

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• Nigeria will start exporting cars soon

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Car, Exporting

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• If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, War, Fighting

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• I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Children, Kids

  "Ben Okri", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!

  Stephen Keshi

  Loss, Numbers, Audacity

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• I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Ghana, Presidential, Inauguration

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2017

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• There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Country, Strong, Race

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• What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

  Masai Ujiri

  Atrocities, Absolutes, Happenings

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• People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
  even our first or second problem, maybe the third

  Atiku Abubakar

  People, Firsts, Problem

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• Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

  Chinua Achebe

  Stories, Complicated, Nigeria Independence

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• School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  School, Rich, Poor

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• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, Loss, Aggravation

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• Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Gifted Writers, Portraits

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• An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

  Nii Parkes

  Class, Differences, Despair

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• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  Chinua Achebe

  Integrity, Stupid, Reality

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Aug 19, 2011

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• I had the honor of meeting a young Pakistani woman named Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and nearly killed just for trying to go to school. I also heard about how nearly 300 girls in Nigeria were kidnapped from their school dorms in the middle of the night. There are girls like this in every corner of the globe. In fact, there are more than 62 million girls worldwide not attending school, and that's an outrage.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, School, Night

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• I founded this school for the masses.

  Atiku Abubakar

  School, Mass, Laughable

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• I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Found

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• The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

  Chinua Achebe

  Trouble, Failure Of Leadership

  Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, Heinemann

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