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"What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God."
"But let the word go forth from this time and place that the torch has been passed on to a new generation. A generation that is acutely aware of its unique destiny as the hope of our long-suffering people. A generation that is desperately challenged by the rapid developments taking place all over the world, a generation that is encouraged by all the possibilities of technology, a generation that is determined to earn its place in history; a generation of hope."
"Many times in history, people have voted our people they didn't want and ended up with people they didn't need. But let me assure you that you have not voted out one bad government only to end up with another."
"I ask you not to expect all answers to all problems from me, even though you expect me to lead the way. I ask you not to expect me to solve all your problems, even though you voted for me to do that. I only ask you to join hands with me to be the best we can be, and together lay foundation for a future that is more secure and certain for our children and generations to come."
"More importantly however, is that a new generation of leaders is emerging in Africa who does not want to approach the world with a begging bowl. Leaders who want to engage the world as partners; leaders who are prepared to take responsibilities for the problems of their countries and continent; leaders who recognize the enormous opportunities that abound in the world and are eager to connect Africa to the centres of those opportunities; leaders who want to harness the huge resources of Africa to play on the global stage; leaders who are not content to ask, ‘what can the rest of the world do for us', but rather ‘what can we do with the rest of the world.'"
"Africa must ask of the world what is good for Africa; but more importantly, Africans must have the courage to do what is right and necessary for Africa. We must dream the African dreams, if we must be able to tell the African stories in a way that would make other people want to come to us with respect and pride, and not with pity and shame. We have wasted so many years and did many things wrong. But we must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world."
"We must pull this country back together and rebuild, block by block, with dedication and commitment"
"I am determined to grow Nigeria out of poverty"
"I promise you that I will lead the fight and employ every God-given resource available to us in turning things around"
"No matter who you voted for or what your convictions are, government must work for you"
"We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so."
"Hate speech is a specie of terrorism."
"No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences."
"We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down."
"Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature."
"There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin."
"Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term."
"Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries."
"There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can."
"We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked."
"It doesn't matter where one starts from; it doesn't matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference."
"The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile."
"I am so pleased and happy, and I believe that the Almighty God has a plan for our nation by putting us in strategic positions in politics, business, and everywhere."
"The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture."
"With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent."
"Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry."
"An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society."
"Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials."
"Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail."
"The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation."
"You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity."
"If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society."
"The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits."
"Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry."
"Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development."
"If the church says we will not accept you here or that we will expose you if you are stealing the resources of the country or stealing the resources of a private company or other establishment, where you work, then we would not have the type of problem that we have in this country. If only the church does so - just the church."
"Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it."
"If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account."
"If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it."
"In stabilizing the macroeconomic environment, we have focused on aligning fiscal with monetary policy and nudging the central bank toward the objective of more market-determined exchange rates."
"It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country."
"The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance."
"If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari."
"Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits."
"The truth is that many, if not most, nations of the world are made up of different peoples - and cultures and beliefs and religions - who find themselves thrown together by circumstance."
"The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity."
"I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays."
"No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work."
"The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge."
"The most important thing for Africa is that whoever wants to invest in our countries should start in manufacturing."
"We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push."
"It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control."
"Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made."
"We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism."
"As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil."
"It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation."
"Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global."
"Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes."
"Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts."
"Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building."
"We are in a democracy and there is a process by which things can be done and that process is the one where you bring forward amendments to the National Assembly and they will do whatever is considered useful in the circumstance."
"The Diaspora in the UK is particularly important because this is the largest diaspora community in the world. So really if you are talking to hundreds of thousands of Nigerians for anyone with any sense at all it’s a very important community to address. So it’s representative, it’s the way to go. The Diaspora here is also very active at home,"
"The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.”"
"The more transport infrastructure we provide the more efficient the economy becomes, resulting in more business opportunities."
"The health of the private sector in any economy is a fair measure of how prosperous and democratic that economy is."
"I have played my role but people can decide whether it is quiet or not"
"Democracy does not guarantee that the leader or those leaders will deliver or indeed are able to deliver on what we want."
"I think the debate we must have is whether we really want autonomous local government. As it stands today, it is unrealistic to expect autonomy for local governments created by the constitution. They were not meant to be autonomous"
"Local government autonomy unrealistic, says Fashola"
"I think, we ought to pray for the government and we ought to exercise patience. Let there be constructive criticism. Nigeria is a big country, mark you and it has the potentiality of leading Africa."
"Mr President; I see under you Nigeria realising her dreams because; I have a dream that Nigeria will one day be truly united; I have a dream that Nigeria will build a sound economy; I have a dream that Nigeria will have the political cloud that will enable her to lead rest of the Africa and the blacks all over the world; I have a dream that Nigeria will take her proper place in the committee of nations.."
"I have a dream not only for the North but for the entire nation. I have a dream that Nigeria will be truly united one day. I have a dream that Nigeria will have a buoyant, a strong economy. I have a dream that Nigeria will have the political cloud that will enable her to lead rest of the Africa and the blacks all over the world. I have a dream that Nigerians will come to regard one another as their brothers keepers. I have a dream that Nigeria will take her proper place in the committee of nations and will be one of the leading nations of the world. I have that dream, God's willing.. And all these ugliest things that are happening today will come to an end. Only God has no beginning nor end. Everything that you see good or bad has a beginning and it will have an end. By the grace of God we will see the end of all the crisis in Nigeria. By the grace of God we will come to know peace and stability in Nigeria. By the grace of God we will be our brothers keepers. Unfortunately today it is not so, and that is why I'm worried and that is why we are working for it.. Today Nigeria is not what it was. Nigeria was a decent country, morally sound, yes. But today, even the institutions of public is breaking down today. Respect for elders and constituted authority could used to be the cardinal principle in our society is now in it's lowest aim. Honesty where it does not pay has become meaningless. In short, there is meaninglessness in philosophy, insecurity in politics, chaos in politics, immoralities in society, corruption in economy, frustration in art, lack of creativity in literature."
"The purpose of history is to know the past in order to adjust the Present and plan for the future."
"Every politician wants good things; that is why many aspirants are jostling for few posts."
"I want to believe those who escaped can only run but cannot hide."
"It is a case of a thief who stole the king’s trumpet (Kakaki), where will he blow it?"
"It is impossible to sell an item and still dictate to the buyer how to use it. Once the vote is purchased and sold, you cannot ask how they use what you have sold."
"A night with hunger, I believe, is far better than four years of pains and struggle."
"It is important to restate that the traditional institution of Kingship in our society, regardless of the advent of modernism, remains a rallying point for the generality of our people."
"We must begin to realise that every strata of the society counts, we must listen and accommodate all views, whether they are poor, whether they are Igbos, Hausas, whether they are Muslims or Christians."
"We have so much to gain. Any position of authority you put a woman, she tries to put in extra effort to ensure she does not disappoint. She knows that all eyes are on her."
"...And their focus begins to shift from things that don’t have meaning in their lives. We should focus on things that will make our female children to excel."
"The society should accommodate the needs of the less privileged. Our laws should look at the issues and balance them."
"If a woman can train a man and he becomes the president, why can’t the woman herself become the President, Governor, or Speaker? So not only are women ready, we are capable to lead in all ramifications."
""Women appearance going beyond the 30 percent appointments the Beijing Declaration provides (3 May 2015)"
"I don’t think it is a matter of control rather a matter of working together as a team to move Lagos State forward, I believe that as a legal practitioner who has worked with a lot of men and has been able to head my own legal which is doing very well, I have the capacity to lead the House."
"The Labour Party is not a southern people’s agenda, it is an expression of hope for people that felt that they have been left out, we have campaigned across the local government and indeed the teeming masses in all the local government have felt that they have been left out."
"As the nation marks this year’s June 12 Democracy Day, it is imperative that Nigerians, the leaders and the led alike, imbibe the culture and democratic tenets of equity, justice, fairness to all, mutual respect, tolerance, adherence to Rule of Law and respect for the Will of the people."
"It is instructive to state that these are the essentials for a united, stable, peaceful, secure, and economically prosperous nation that we all desire."
"I urge Nigerians to remain peaceful, united, and law-abiding as we work together in the hope of a better nation that we all yearn for"
"How can you be talk about a population with its 55 per cent made up of females yet there is no single woman on the decision making table in the country."
"On when Nigeria will be ripe for female Presidency, it’s possible for this 2023. Why not? Because all the people that have become the President were supported by people. If the players and kingmakers decided that a woman should become the next President, then that is it."
"“I had made up my mind that I wanted to be somebody who’s going to clean up the water and this pushed me to research. I was 12 or 13 years old at the time. When I did research in the library, I found out that the people who engaged in solving problems by systems were engineers, particularly chemical engineers. So I decided to become a chemical engineer.”"
"We needs to focus on educational programs that helps graduates develop skills."
"They believed that service was what each human owed other humans. I joined Red Cross as a pre-teen because I wanted to ease the suffering of others and when I was in college, I continued to volunteer to shelters and work as a mentor to young children."
"I learned that it was better to focus upon serving others than dwell upon my own life’s issues."
"I realized that if something wasn’t done about cleaning up the soil and rivers, cleaning up the oil spills being my motivation for desiring to study Chemical engineering."
"I began to think like an advocate from an early age looking back, I have always been drawn to helping the underdog or rooting for them in stories that I read."
"I thank God for the privilege to serve our President, Goodluck Jonathan as well as distinguished Senators and honourable members who showed me great solidarity every step of the way."
"We (women) cannot be satisfied with the appointment, how can we be satisfied with even the number depleting from what we had before; instead of increasing, it is decreasing. And if you look at the total population of Nigeria, I believe that women comprise more than half of the population of Nigeria and aside from that, we have very competent women that will be able to do the job. Women that have the capacity and uncommon energy for the assignment, so I don’t see how or why we should get lesser number of appointment when we are already crying that the number we have is not enough. I am not sure we even got up to one percent."
"Life in the Senate was one of the most memorable moments of my life as it gave me the opportunity to pursue one of my core passions, which is to reboot and revive our educational system"
"l assure the party of my loyalty and support and to work for the success of the party."
"We want to still be able to retain them as Nigerians back home but give them the global opportunity, that they all seek to benefit from."
"The governance of Lagos is not a trial and error, you need to hit the ground running."
"If you have an emergency at 3 am, who would you call, what are your chances? Will you call a man that has the experience that has gone through the trenches before, that lives with it, that understands what the issues are and that appreciates what challenge you have even at that 3am? Or will you leave your chance to a man who does not know where the dial is and does not know what the issue of governance is?"
"Let’s continue to invest in areas where the lives of the people will be impacted. Let’s continue to support the poorest of the poor in our system."
"Let’s use technology to help us situate some of these challenges so that we are not giving what is not supposed to be given to the wrong sets of people."
"if ladies are smiling and flocking around you, then you know you are being successful."
"One thing in life is that there are parameters to measure success."
"There were many opportunities to learn every day about what life truly was."
"I believe I can make an impact and influence change in the lives of the downtrodden, and help ameliorate the sufferings of the needy in the State, not because that I want to enrich myself through political process."
"Only those who dare, stand the chance of climbing the ladder of success."
"One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches."
"The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!"
"I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics–though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired."
"Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve."
"If we go on foot, we will not walk, we will run. And if we fall, we will pick ourselves up and run again. But mark you, we will not go on foot. You might tell us to go by camel, or horse, but we will even skip the motor car and go by plane. And the British had best not deny us the choice of our means of transportation, no matter how fast."
"I hated government that sat on people"
"We [at NEPU] interpret democracy in its more traditional, radical sense, and that is the rule of the common people, the poor, the illiterate, while our opponents (the NPC) interpret it in its modern Tory sense, and that is the rule of the enlightened and prosperous minority in the supposed interest of the common people."
"...the economy is a living thing, if you play with it, it can kill you."
"What Nigerians want is really very peddling things, now for example what is constitution, what is independence, what is 1st October if I go to bed hungry, or the next morning I wake up without breakfast, for my children to go to school without a meal?"
"The word 'tribe' is insulting. It is the European who refers to us as tribes. Such words should be banned. I would rather say I come from Kano State than say I am Fulani...."
"I have been a socialist all along. I discovered early in life that a lot of the codes of Islam are patterned along socialist lines."
"What we have to do in this country is to try as much as possible not to be identified with any socialist camp but only that of the Nigerian experience. . . . [My brand of socialism is ] Nigerian socialism. To achieve it, we should take into account our traditional way of life, our temper, our economic potentialities and resources, our attitude to family life, our attitude to work and international good neighbourliness. These are what will give us the ingredients for our own kind of socialism. This will make us avoid the mistake of copying other people's arrangements which may be unsuitable for our particular situation."
"It’s a place you need people who definitely must have managed human and material resources over the years."
"Kogi State is like an evil forest that needs instantaneous redevelopment and needs a messiah."
"The truth is that we are doing damage to ourselves. And I pray that your generation will change it."
"The problem is that we want a perfect election in an imperfect situation."
"At a point in time in every man’s life you must choose what you want to do and you must take bold decisions."
"There is a sharp difference between a Senator and a Senator-elect."
"Power belongs to God and he gives it to whoever he wishes and desires at his own time."
"In leading the younger generation, we must instill in them utmost respect for the rule of law and constituted authorities."
"We must continue to make sacrifice for the good of all of us and our country."
"Corruption is in the mind of everybody. These vagabonds are in the party and struggling to become leaders."
"The man who wants prosperity by miracle is corrupt. You want to own a car or house by miracle, you are already a corrupt man."
"Selfishness; greed, as characters of individuals, have made it difficult for many parties to come together."
"We must encourage our diaspora to repatriate their wealth back home."
"If you want the naira to rise, don’t come on social media to vent."
"Ensuring accessibility to contraceptives is a crucial step in mitigating a potential population explosion, particularly when the financially constrained majority may prioritise basic necessities over family planning methods."
"“Her death is a huge loss not only to the female gender activist community but to the country as a whole. Our condolences to her family, friends, National Assembly and government and people of Taraba State.”"
"Church praise the Lord.. My name is Dr. Beta Edu and I came to thank God. Uhm, last year at Shilo 2022, I prayed and told God that by the next time I come for the next year Shilo, I want to be a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. On the last day of Shilo just as I was walking out I saw papa "Bishop David Oyedepo" and went to greet him and meet him as usual. And I wisphered to him, I said papa I need you to pray for me I just have one prayer request now. And he said what is it? I said I want to come back to the Shilo 2023 as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He put his hand on my head and he said, it is done. I stood up and I left. I came today to return all Glory God that inspite of all odds today am a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. One of the youngest in the Fourth Republic. People of my age are not at the Federal Executive Counsil of Nigeria in this Fourth Republic, but today I can boldly stand here to say "God did it". I came to return all Glory to God."
"We are critical on a number of fronts. Looking at it first from an institutional standpoint, when the Malian people rejected the old regime, they wanted the existing set-up to be changed into a democratic one."
"With pleasure. Before the 26 March revolution, there was a general consensus that, in the process of privatisation, the state sector should be managed in a way that benefited the Malian economy. But the reality is that privatisation methods have not changed."
"Naturally, MPs have seen what happened in Niger and elsewhere, but fear is tempered here because officers in Mali's forces have also given a great deal of thought to the effects of military dictatorship."
"Let me put it this way. The military dictatorship went through three different stages. During the first stage, just after the coup on November 19 1968, the junta chose Mao Tse Tung as a model, hammering home the idea that power could be won by force of arms-and it was carried away by the popular acclaim it initially received."
"Improving Women's Participation in Higher Education."
"All I need to do now is to roll up my sleeves and get cracking. Whatever I think has been lacking, now, I have the opportunity to correct it."
"We cannot say we have done everything perfectly because nothing is perfect. For me, it is a learning curve – a painful and difficult learning curve. Yes, we probably or definitely did not explore all the options and we would, going forward, take all that on board, roll our sleeves up again and get on with it."
"People today cannot afford to feed themselves. So many children are out of school. The hospitals are abandoned because they are unapproachable. These are issues that affect the electorate."
"Whoever is in power needs to be told the truth and that is the basis of all religions."
"If animals celebrate the death of a butcher, has the knife also died? If beneficiaries of the mandate of the people are defecting, have the people also defected?"
"Waste is a problem but in developed countries today, waste is no longer a problem, it is seen as a resource rather than a problem."
"If the country is not secure, nothing will work. If we have security, there would be opportunities for there would be more dollars and inflation would reduce."
"One way to reduce vote buying is to give privacy to the ballot."
"If you have to go bald, you go bald. If you have to carry warts on your face, you carry warts! Your body doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the craft. That’s why you’ll never see such actors in serious projects. Producers and directors know how to sift the wheat from the chaff.Who cares about your good looks? People are paying for the characters they can relate with."
"In every film, there is a lesson to be learned."
"Religion is a thing even God has a problem with. We’re subjected to the servitude of our fellow men in the name of spirituality."
"It is very worrisome to note how insecurity has crippled agriculture, while threatening the education and health of our children and women, and these have continued to widen the net of poverty and inequality among people of the north and indeed the entire country."
"It is unimaginable that someone who held a high-ranking federal position for eight years now resorts to desperate deception to fulfil a personal political ambition."
"The setting up of the paramilitary organization called “Amotekun†is illegal and runs contrary to the provisions of the Nigerian law."
"As a consequence of this, no State Government, whether singly or in a group has the legal right and competence to establish any form of organization or agency for the defense of Nigeria or any of its."
"If they want war, we will fight, but I will make sure my people are protected from coronavirus."
"Let them go and bring that man in Abuja (President Muhammadu Buhari). I will send him to his ancestors with only few punches."
"I will not be minister forever, but I will do the right thing."
"I have always been a loyalist. If they are just realising that now, then they have not been part of us from the genesis."
"It is not a sin to have an ambition."
"I’ve never been removed. Impeachment or removal is democratic and constitutional, but in doing that, you must follow due process. I am not against that. If I do that, then I am not democratic."
"Abnormalities must never be normal, we want what is right, not what is wrong and we need our indifferences to become our strength."
"The most important thing in project management is understanding the problem. And once you understand the problem, then the solution is half provided."
"Leadership is not about people not having complaints. But leadership is about you being responsible enough to listen and respond to the complaints instead of throwing those complaints away."
"The government must burst the evil, wicked and corrupt cartel in our prisons. They must be held accountable for all the financial allocations from the government, humanitarian organisations and individuals, to who support our prisons daily. We need to call a spade a spade, for once."
"As much as we are not ready to dabble into the sovereignty of other nations, the issue of visas, issue of migration management is a sovereign issue."
"Sports is an invaluable tool for societal development."
"Journalism is adventurous and educative. It makes one to learn every day. Journalism gives exposure."
"Anywhere in the world where ethnicity has become an issue, it becomes destructive."
"Lagos is the most liberal state in this country."
"It is not in the character of the deputy governor to attack political opponents, not to talk of innocent students exercising their fundamental human rights as enshrined in the Constitution."
"If we accept the way elections are now, how do we tell the robbers and kidnappers that they are doing something wrong?"
"No country can progress if its politics is more profitable than its industries. In a country where those in government are richer than entrepreneurs, they manufacture poverty."
"Facilitate stronger institutions a key anchor that will turn Nigeria from a country of oil consumption to a country that produces based on fast factors"
"We would use merit to employ, dramatically reduce poverty and return Nigeria to a place of strategic relevance with high value"
"Insecurity is a result of ineffective security strategy, address this by projecting strong leadership, state security and pursue a robust reform of security sector"
"China’s GDP stands at $18.74 trillion, while Nigeria’s GDP is barely 1% of that size, a little over 200 billion dollars."
"Moreover, 63% of Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty, which is about 150 million people, the highest number in the world, facing deprivations in health, education, and living standards, while it is only 3.9% in China; meanwhile, China’s population is about seven times larger than ours."
"Leadership is not a title, a position or an Office but a function."
"The litmus test for our success as Leaders is not how many people we are leading, but how many we are transforming into leaders"
"Your support and commitment make the difference and reinforce our resolve to rid our State of the virus and boost our healthcare status"
"I have seen in the midst of this present crisis the beauty of our shared humanity as people have come together to provide care and succour to fellow human beings, many times at risk to their personal safety and comfort"
"Despite our preparation and readiness to combat and curtail the spread of coronavirus, the best option still remains its prevention"
"Our words are seeds of life. Let us sow seeds of goodness and positivity into the lives of children; and nourish them through our good."
"There would be no future for the educated if we don't address the issues of illiteracy in our country."
"I understand as I take off with this plane as your pilot, there might be few turbulence. don’t worry, Captain Rochas is in command but it will get to a point, after the rough bad weather that we shall get to the cruising point when I shall say to Alhaja Udi, Professor, Adamu, Segun, and Okey, ‘I’ll say, come onboard, come untie your seatbelt and let us enjoy the New Nigeria."
"Yes, there is unity in our diversity as a nation, but that unity did not emerge by chance, it is a product of intentional effort, enthroned by conviction, nurtured through understanding, and sustained by a shared vision. Yet, while unity is important, it is the developmental impact it inspires that truly transforms lives."
"Charter of Equity is not a slogan for confusion. It is a document to let us know and remember the imbalance in the system and see how best to correct it, but not for people to enter social media and circulate fake news. We cannot continue like this every time."
"As gatekeepers of public information, I believe that what journalists choose to publish will significantly shape how Nigerians interpret and respond to unfolding events.Journalists hold the power either to permit divisive and inflammatory content that could fuel hatred, unrest, and disunity, or to amplify voices of peace, unity, and reason. I trust that their sense of patriotism will guide them toward the latter."
"I’m really overwhelmed with gratitude, greatly humbled and honoured by that renewed merit given to me by the people of Ondo State by coming out in their hundreds of thousands to cast their vote for my party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and by extension for myself, to continue to be their governor beyond 2025, when this very tenure will be ending."
"When it comes to being active politically, not everybody who registered is very active politically. So, if you look a the records, not just in Ondo State, but in every other election in other states, that has been happening."
"The situation in Plateau State is not too different from other states, though the context of our security challenges differs by zone"
"Plateau State is one of the most blessed lands in the country. Our advantage in agriculture is God-given. Ninety percent of what we used to call Irish potatoes is produced here. We have renamed it Plateau potatoes, because I think we deserve the exclusive rights in the propagation and production of potatoes."
"I understand that even at the Secondary School Level the students are being thought Entrepreneurship. This is the way to go because the government has a limited capacity to create jobs.."
"The main goals of entrepreneurship education in Nigeria include, preparing the students to be self-reliant and self-employed, creating employment opportunities, helping students to transition from a traditional economy to a modern industrial economy, training students to be creative and innovative in identifying business opportunities and to establish careers in small and medium-sized businesses."
"I’m very interested in getting the average person in the state to acquire skills that can make them to become useful to themselves and be self-reliant. Everything that we do in Nasarawa State comes from our vision for the state"
"We are going to continue to do a lot to enhance women and youth empowerment in the state."
"It is my firm belief that the development of any state must begin at the grassroots."
"Engaging with our communities fosters a strong bond between Representatives and residents, building bridges of trust and interdependence — the true hallmark of our democracy."
"A healthier environment means a better tomorrow."
"On World Patient Safety Day, we are reminded of our shared responsibility to protect the most vulnerable among us by ensuring safe, accessible, and quality care for every newborn and every child. Our collective action today will shape a healthier, safer, and more secure tomorrow."
"Promoting literacy in the digital era” and building a more informed world, one word at a time."
"A reminder that global challenges need global unity and lasting change begins with empowered local communities."
"Together, let us embrace the spirit of responsible citizenship for a better and inclusive future."
"Government, ministry, media, and youth advocacy, all united in inspiring the next generation to lead with purpose."
"Let us continue to embrace unity, peace, and patriotism as we work together to deepen our democracy and create a brighter future for generations to come."
"Begin the month on a positive note with much enthusiasm and positive vibes. Shun anything negative that can hinder your progress and that of the society."
"A good political leader must be able to lobby for his people."
"Your tireless efforts have been remarkable, and now it's time to unwind and ponder."
"Life is a circle of happiness, sadness, difficult times and good moments. I pray we have more times of joys but right now the world is going through a difficult time."
"We should therefore be proud of our achievements and build on them to ensure a greater, stronger and virile party both at the State and the National levels."
"Let selfless and meaningful service to humanity be our watchword."
"It is a unique opportunity to show love to one another as exhibited by God who, out of his love for us, offered Jesus Christ to die for our sins to give us life more abundantly."
"Indeed, of what significance is a Field Marshal without Generals."
"Quality education plays a fundamental role in addressing insecurity by tackling its root causes such as poverty, unemployment, and ignorance. It empowers individuals with the knowledge, skills, and values needed to promote critical thinking, tolerance, and responsible citizenship. Educated communities are better equipped to resist manipulation, extremism, and violence. Furthermore, quality education fosters social inclusion, expands economic opportunities, and strengthens institutions-all of which are essential to building long-term peace and security."
"Democracy requires patience, commitment & Endurance .The most admired democratic country in the world today did not achieve that in a day .It took years of learning & persistence for them to reach where they are today."
"There is a long term initiative that we are currently working on, which aims to bridge the gap between city and rural area: the fiber fund. It is a $2 billion fund to expand our current backbone from 35,000 kilometers to 125,000 kilometers. In other words, we are investing in 90,000 kilometers of fiber optic network across the country."
"However, that is a long term initiative and it is not going to connect those people in the next year or two. We expect that such a project will probably take about three to five years to be completed."
"What we are doing in the meantime, however, is investing in what we have called the Broadband Alliance. The Broadband alliance is focused on enhancing the existing infrastructure that we have in the country, which is about 35,000 kilometers of optic fiber network. We have a government-owned satellite — the only one in the West African region — which allows us to connect difficult-to-reach locations. One of the projects we started in the first three months of our appointment was the deployment of connectivity to all local government secretariats across Nigeria — all 774 of them"
"We found the case of the Chinese farmers extremely inspiring because when people talk about connectivity, they talk about connecting people but it is somehow abstract or difficult to actually picture cases of how this investment in connectivity leads to important economic opportunities for individuals. In China, the government is ensuring that farmers in rural areas have access to quality connectivity solutions."
"We are still limited to connectivity between people, connecting people to people."
"We tend to forget that connectivity is also about connecting things to things, and people to things, and that is what is responsible for the prosperity that we are beginning to see in a number of sectors globally."
"When you look at the use of connected technologies in mining, it is saving lives: making mines a lot more precise in their daily operations, and helping miners to use resources more sustainably."
"If you look at what connectivity is doing in security, it allows to govern previously ungoverned spaces, it is even useful to manage forestry or farms."
"All these opportunities are limited for developing countries if we only focus on connecting people to people."
"I think we are forgetting opportunities that exist as well and are very important. *The next conversation that we need to be having is about the link between connectivity and prosperity in developing countries."
"Focusing on connecting people to others is not sufficient."
"Africa cannot remain as consumers, we need to grow into producers of solutions, “With the design lab, we are looking to deepen our work, to allow us support the smart application of technology especially for prosperity across multiple countries."
"Beyond just a tour, we want to build strong presence in the Bay Area."
"Our size will become a major part of us being able to invest in startups, and the longer we stay invested the more we will start to see significant returns and exits."
"Technology is becoming a major part of nearly all that we do as humans. We are beginning to see how it is facilitating access to services and increasing productivity: many businesses are now completely relying on it."
"Having an example of farmers being able to livestream their products and thus selling directly to consumers is very inspiring."
"We need to do a good job at investing in our infrastructure, to train more people to have a strong workforce and to have a decent set of policies for the digital economy. Otherwise, there is going to be a limit to how much gains we can get out of all the investments that we have made."
"Within the community, we want people to be able to work together and generate new knowledge — whether on the application of AI in critical sectors or for critical services in Nigeria."
"Most of the time, civil society organizations tend to narrowly focus on policing the government. However, the digital economy is so robust that the people we need to police are beyond the government — as most of the time the government does not have the capability to use technology."
"A lot of the young people are digital natives and of course you still find a lot of vulnerable young people, but the slightly older folks are the ones who are the most vulnerable."
"To sum it up: in the North, people are scared of losing their jobs because of AI. In our case, we are creating more jobs with it."
"When people have a clearer understanding of artificial intelligence, they can better protect themselves instead of relying on laws to do so alone — laws must be there to support it, but individuals must also be well educated about this phenomenon."
"So we will not allow anything to happen to him, so far he is doing his job, and he is doing his job greatly well."
"So we are looking into this issue, and we assure that any officer on lawful duty will be protected highly."
"The fusion of my engineering expertise and administrative experience equips me to contribute meaningfully to our state’s development."
"In line with the oath of office to which I have just subscribed, I make a solemn pledge to do all in my power, with God’s guidance, to live up to expectations."
"I will give all it takes to meet the expectations of my principal, the party, and above all, the good people of Edo State."