"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."

"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."

"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."

"Improving Women's Participation in Higher Education."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"“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.”"

"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."

"We must encourage our diaspora to repatriate their wealth back home."

"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."

"Corruption is in the mind of everybody. These vagabonds are in the party and struggling to become leaders."

"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."

"Power belongs to God and he gives it to whoever he wishes and desires at his own time."

"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."

"The problem is that we want a perfect election in an imperfect situation."

"The truth is that we are doing damage to ourselves. And I pray that your generation will change it."

"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."

"One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches."

"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."

"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."

"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...."

"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 economy is a living thing, if you play with it, it can kill you."

"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."

"I hated government that sat on people"

"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."

"Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve."

"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."

"The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!"

"Only those who dare, stand the chance of climbing the ladder of success."

"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."

"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."

"if ladies are smiling and flocking around you, then you know you are being successful."

"The governance of Lagos is not a trial and error, you need to hit the ground running."

"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."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"l assure the party of my loyalty and support and to work for the success of the party."

"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"