"“You see because doing music was not about making it, those were not the considerations for me. It was about: oh my goodness, this is such a huge price, and am I ready to pay this price?”"

"“Yeah. You know I was always drawn to the music. When I got into secondary school, which was my first opportunity to be able to make my own choices, I joined the choir at Queens College, and it was such a wonderful experience. I just carried on from there; it was a step after the other: taking solos, enjoying the whole scenario, and by the time I got to university, I was fortunate to be a part of a wonderful girl-(musical) group that enjoyed so much success on the Nigerian scene, Kush, and that was an amazing experience. And…you know…it just kept going from there until it got to a point where there was no turning back”."

"I wrote my first song when I was 7"

"People will try to intimidate you and change you when they think you don’t have confidence in who you are."

"Why copy and paste when we all have such uniquenes"

"“There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!"

"Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else”."

"“A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.”"

"Women should be seen as custodians of a prosperous Nigeria and must be given priority in the scheme of things, especially in decision-making."

"I think we should spare a thought and pray that it is also the set time for those who have the home and the children but have no food and no money."

"Don’t deceive yourself to think that politics will produce all the answers. What is going to bring a change in this season are women who are way ahead of their political happening but key into the spirit to hear what God is saying and they obey those illogical instructions."

"Empowering a woman means empowering a nation, I advise that you all add value to your homes."

"Our girls are precious and should be handled with care."

"Let us all be our brother’s keeper, whenever we notice an abuse, let us speak out, let us all stand up to help the victims of abuse and stand up to eradicate it in our communities."

"“Imagine if Stella Adedavor, a medical doctor, and Nana Asamoah, a poet, were never educated.”"

"“When a girl is educated, she can read and write, she is aware of the law, and knows love. When a girl is educated, she is aware of her potential; she can read about Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of the World Trade Organisation.”"

"I never had the intention to play football professionally, I wanted to be a lawyer"

"Oshoala, an inspiring young woman, is also a great role model to young women in Nigeria and we are very proud of all her accomplishments and effort towards encouraging underprivileged girls through her foundation"

"The reason she is successful is because of her integrity; no matter what she is passing through, she has always done good to others"

"I am really happy about that but I will also want everyone to understand that most times in football, it is about the team first while individual glory can come after."

"I also know that I represent many people on the pitch and a lot of girls look up to me; and so, I tend to give my best as a good time model"

"I want these girls to know they shouldn’t focus just on football, because when they are like 40 to 50 years, they may not be able to do much; but should also combine it with school or any handwork they are good at"

"I will never understand why y’all curse out people for not wanting to have kids…..Like, it’s their decision, let them be !!! We all see Life differently, biko."

"It keeps me going but of course there is still more work to do I want to create my own history and not just equal someone else's record that I'm going to give my best to create mine"

"I am really excited proud of myself, 4 x is something to always remember."

"I think African things are really getting better the last cup of Nations was real quality teams have buckled up prepare hard, trained hard and it was pretty difficult."

"Please Lord, its eight-years, make many more years come to pass. Eternity would be perfect."

"Health is wealth and how you take care of yourself determines how long you will last. You can use a product and support it with healthy eating and exercise. So anyone that tells you there is a weight loss product you can use that will work without eating well and doing some form of exercise is lying."

"I use the scale of preference. I live my life based on what is more important and that’s how I follow it."

"There are always obstacles in life when you want to achieve greatness. It makes you a strong person, being able to go through all the hurdles, and still come out tops is what makes you successful."

"Challenges are normal, going above them and still achieving your dream is humane. Always look at the goal and not the challenges at the side."

"People will keep criticizing when they want exactly what you have. They hate and they talk, but they want what you have. They crave to have what they have. So when they talk, the only way to shut them up is to even do better and up your game."

"The thing about Lagos is that it has so much flavour.It can be better but there’s nothing like home."

"Again, be authentic."

"Every time you have a chance to showcase your craft, your mission is to knock it out the park."

"Nigerians truly have a gift. We can turn the most dire situation into a hilarious joke."

"I try not to focus on the negatives and limitation. I just work hard and make sure I deliver with the opportunity given to me."

"The greatest thing you can do for yourself in every time you have the opportunity to handle someone’s project, knock it out the park, and that is what I live by every day."

"Keep dreaming, the best ideas comes in your dreams and the ability to create a world of fantasy. Stalk your mentors and their works."

"God is very intentional about your life. It does not matter what anyone thinks or says, what matters is what God’s word says about you."

"I think the endorsement of the Nigerian people is what I’m working so hard to get right now and that is why I want all Nigerian people to get ready to vote for me. All these years, what did you get in voting in almost 20 years of our democracy? Have you not been wasting your votes? A vote for Ezekwesili gets you good governance"

"Prevention! A lot of institutional structures will take care of it. For example, systemic change. During the public procurement reforms, you saw how that reduced public contracting corruption. We are going to do process change to improve service delivery. The big banana is the deregulation of the economy."

"But education is the heartbeat of human capital development. When we say human development, we are talking of education and health. We need healthy human beings who you then give education. That is human development. The programme that we have is very interesting. Number one matter for us in the education reform programmw is to completely change the position of the teachers in our education system because research has showed us that almost 60 per cent of learning outcome is determined by the quality of the teacher in the class room."

"It’s part of the 436 reforms. It’s only one out of 436 reforms. People forget that we had to do ORASS, Operation Reach All Secondary Schools. We grilled secondary school inspectors and gave them the tools and they went to every secondary school in this land and on the basis of what they did, we were able to design what is called the Nigerian Education Management Information System."

"There is no way the movement can be abandoned. Have you not noticed how frequently we change leadership? It is a model for how to run institutions in Africa. This is a movement that has been on the basis of the sweat of Nigerians. We told ourselves from the very beginning that we will not take a dime from anybody."

"That is the point I am making, I am saying to you that the structure is the individual Nigerians, so the question you should be asking is that, do we now have people in each of these places that have bought into the message of the ACPN of today? I am here to say to you, yes we do."

"What is the definition of structure? What these politicians call structure is a captive audience of Nigerians who come out when they need them to come out. You think the structure is that they build story building? No. It is that there is a captive audience of Nigerians who have bought into their message, who when they say to them, there is a meeting at the village square, they all come out."