"Do a good job of research and teaching, put yourself out there in the faces of companies who will support your work and the Department with donations of critical equipment. It is in their enlightened self-interest, and it will be a win-win for both of you.."

"You’ve chosen the right subject. You’re in the right faculty, It’ll take you places in life if you make the best use of the opportunity it offers—to become better versions of yourselves and to be of service to others"

"All these are part of the work being done for frontier exploration in the country, while explaining that for now, government is saddled with all the responsibility of doing the surveys to prove the prospectivity of the basins, as the International Oil Companies, IOCs will only come in thereafter."

"Now we don’t have enough data to attract investors, but after the studies companies can now begin to explore for oil based on the findings."

"The Basin (Chad) lies along the West and Central African Rift System. All the basins along the rift zone like Doba, Salamar, Bongo and the Chad Tannit in Niger, there have been a lot of finds and oil exploration."

"The IOCs operating in the country has cooperated with government with regard to the geological surveys by supplying data where demanded. “Now we don’t have enough data to attract investors, but after the studies companies can now begin to explore for oil based on the findings."

"The Chinese have found 500 million barrels reserves in Chad itself and a pipeline is being laid to Segigi Field, where a refinery is being built, which is going to serve the whole of Chad. Also, another 500 million barrels were found in the Tannit in Niger, and we have similar soil structure and similar basin, which makes sense to intensify surveys in our own Chad Basin."

"Every country has strategic policy regarding its natural resources in order to preserve them. So we can’t rule out the possibility that we might have strategic reserve areas and the Department of Petroleum resources, DPR, will demarcate the areas."

"A comprehensive and simultaneous survey acquisition of gravity for electro-magnetic study of the basins for 2D seismic and 3D seismic in the areas found to be very prolific."

"We should apportion blame appropriately. In a lot of the areas where there were very serious challenges, politicians played a direct role."

"Death is a necessary end. It comes when it will come."

"If there are no equality of opportunities; no equity in the distribution of resources, no good governance; the same problems will keep recurring."

"A father can only chew for a child; he cannot swallow for her."

"No swimmer, however good, can swim beyond the rim of the world."

"It is the rulers who write story - It is the hunters who compose the story of the hunt - It is the revellers, not the slaughtered cows, who record the fable of the feast."

"Let no one count herself lucky till she finds herself on her death bed."

"How can you claim to be strong, when your minds are so feeble."

"Home is where every traveller returns after a journey, however long. When night falls, the visitor must take his leave of his hosts."

"Then the deer must train themselves to seize the gun from their hunters! The cows to take over the narration of their own story."

"It is the fate of the conquered to toil for the strong! That is the logic of war, the logic of defeat!"

"[T]he skin that graces the king's shoulders, the leopard knows who supplied it. When mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because, each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!"

"Beauty makes all women vulnerable to the greed of men"

"An artist has only his dreams. He has no power."

"Anyone can kill. But it is not everybody who can forgive, or who can be just, as I know you are."

"When Mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!"

"War never ends, but only moves to another place?"

"My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend."

"Even in misfortune, which levels everyone, the potions are unequal: we dare not tell you what we believe will becoming to us. ["

"When you have lost a war, you have lost, and there's nothing you can do about it but accept the consequences."

"Happiness is a fake. The gods employ it as a mask to trick us each time they are about to plunge us into grief."

"The gods! Which gods! Do you still trust any of them after this? Or have you quickly forgotten what they told us about Anlugbua just now? No, women, there is no shelter anywhere but in ourselves! Each of us has become our own god."

"Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not."

"It was my son your wife bewitched and led us to this calamity"

"Some words are such that when we hear them, all the light inside us dies at once, and our smiling daylight turns into the bleakness of night."

"The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims ‘learn only from suffering and pain."

"I lit the torch so I will not have to grope my way to the camp where I shall be married to my enemy, that handsome butcher of our people."

"I ask you- without a shrine, without worshippers, what is a god?"

"All your shrines drenched in the blood Of your worshippers/All your sacred symbols wiped out by fire!"

"Insanity is the drug of misery."

"Anger and desire are twin sisters in this drama we call love, two kernels in the same nut!"

"When fate decided to strike you down, what amount of crying can help?"

"It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it."

"Nowadays, in the new world, it is suicide to be weak."

"Nowadays, when the strong fight the weak, it's called a Liberation War to free the weak from oppression."

"Everything really depends on our vote…any vote cast for a politician tomorrow on the basis of sheer fatherhood by birth; or of brotherhood by clan; or sisterhood by religion, is your doom and my doom."

"Barber’s arm stops in mid-air. It trembles visibly. Man throws his arms up triumphantly. Starts scooping money into his pocket."

"Multi-lingual interpretation is done concurrently among members of the group [the characters], but in subliminal whispers."

"Some people have started gathering in groups with people of their own kind. That too must stop"

"He says it's not that we don't want to be alive."

"Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed."