All Quotes

"Let us not leave the polling stations before the results are posted at the polling station and all relevant documents are officially signed. Let us give a mandate to new leaders who have shown a sense of the common good, love for their country and generosity in their social projects."

"Women engaging in prostitution are victims themselves. Many of them are forced into the job due to lack of opportunities. Some just want to earn so that their children can go to school. All these things must be taken into consideration."

"One thing I learned was that all solutions have to be tailored towards the pain points of the target audience."

"Small businesses want to make more money, and they want to keep as much of that money in their pockets for as long as possible. This means that whatever solutions you’re building for them have to very directly address one of the pain points that affect their ability to do that."

"We also learned that imported solutions do not work. You cannot convince businesses that they need a solution that they are not convinced that they need, which has been an incredible pain point for us because there’s always a risk when building software and replicating a playbook."

"A big lesson we learned while building Kippa was definitely to not scale your team too early. You need to have very few people who are very hard working and can take on multiple roles and multiple hats."

"Another lesson we learned was avoiding the temptation to throw money at problems. If you’re in a position where you can afford to throw money at problems, you have a quality problem, because most people don’t have the money to solve their problems, but it’s still not always the best solution."

"It is important to identify what aligns well with your strengths. Achieving this through self-reflection alone can be challenging. Ideally, seek input from mentors or friends you trust who can provide insights into your areas of strength."

""95% of small businesses in Nigeria (our primary market) die in the first 5 years - building generational businesses is not the norm in our part of the world."

"African businesses operate informally and this lack of structure allows businesses to lose millions of dollars every year."

"---as a young aspiring entrepreneur, spend time figuring out if this is the best way for you to create an impact in the world. Usually, the best way to do so would be by working at a fast-growing startup. Furthermore, surround yourself with smart and talented people with who you can have fun as you build and grow. A combination of grit, back-of-brain motivation and technical competence scale your ability to successfully build and grow a startup."

"The story of Margaret Haughery is one of the sweetest ever told. Her life is a lesson of love in charity which this age needs to learn. While philanthropists and social workers vainly talk about problems, she solved them; for she met those problems with the wisdom that came from the love of her big Irish heart. In her simple life we read again the lesson that there is but one way to become great in the Kingdom of God. And because she found that way, Margaret Haughery, the "Mother of the Orphans," is entitled to a high place among the great wives and mothers who have brought glory to the Catholic Church."

"If adequate recognition is given to research and innovation, it will go a long way in enabling some works which will be of immense benefits to the society."

"Lack of funds is a contributing factor to non-research output in the country due to the fact that many researches are financed from the pockets of scientists."

"We should look inwards; when we do, we will find out that solutions to many of our problems are within us."

"Put people first and the governance follows."

"We’re not here to compete with men but compliment men because women bring a completely different skillset to the board room."

"The real test of modern leadership is whether boards can harness the technological power of AI without surrendering judgment, empathy and accountability."

"In an age of algorithms, the most enduring competitive advantage is not computational speed, but human discernment."

"Sustainable excellence is not built on technology alone. It emerges from the interplay of intellect with integrity, innovation with empathy."

"Complexity is one of the great evils,good men seek to slay it whenever they can."

"Honesty and popularity rarely coexist in the same space. Once in a blue moon, when what people want to hear is actually true, it happens."

"After we got the Internet, the first online service I wanted to build was a Nigerian Paypal. I held 3 or 4 related domains for a while, but failed to renew them, as I didn't have what it'd take. This was years before I thought about starting Nairaland."

"I learnt that one could make money by starting a popular website and placing adverts on it, but I couldn’t make my blog popular enough to"

"Look for a painful problem that others are facing, and then devise a way to make people pay you for the solution. Look for problems that don’t require much capital to solve."

"In a developing country like Nigeria, there are so many problems waiting to be solved. One man’s problem is another man’s profit! Competition is often weak which means you’ll make a lot of money. So what are you waiting for?"

"I used to be active on various discussion forums online, so I recognised their value. But the Nigerian forums available at the time were dominated by Nigerians abroad. They focused on topics like US politics and inter-racial relations."

"It’s good they ban it now so Nigerians have enough time to learn how to use VPN, because this Twitter will be very important in 2023 elections."

"If they ban it for the first time during elections, it would be worse for us a country."

"WhatsApp is banned in Dubai but everyone I know there uses it through VPN. VPN is now a normal thing to them. Lets make it a normal thing here jare."

"In a world saturated with images of seemingly flawless beauty and perfectly curated lives, it’s easy to lose sight of a simple yet profound truth; beauty is not just skin deep. While the beauty industry often feeds us a narrow and superficial definition of what being beautiful means, true beauty goes much deeper it stems from embracing who you are, cultivating confidence, and radiating positivity from within."

"Beauty is not confined to the surface; it runs deep within us, flourishing when we feel good in our skin. By fostering self-acceptance, confidence, and a positive mindset, we redefine what it means to be truly beautiful."

"Let’s pave the way for a world that embraces every unique hue of beauty, celebrating the richness of our differences rather than comparing ourselves to one another."

"It is important for the country to focus on sustainability, which includes renewable energy that gives a sustainable source of power supply."

"If we can harness God given natural resources such as water, wind, steam turbines, fossil fuel, biomass, geothermal and solar energy source, among others, the cost of production of energy in the country would drop drastically."

"Talking about biogas, I think Nigeria is behind, because presently in Indian, they have so perfected it that one can buy plastic biogas generators at home and cook with it, power the house."

"Q:: Education in Nigeria today is fast dropping in standards. How else can we harness the potential of the skilled child in Nigeria today? A: We can organize programs to discover them as the Project Skill Competition organized here today. Our sole aim should be on how to encourage these children to discover their environment and proffer solution."

"Q: How is the Nigerian technical sector working to enact laws to prioritize the education of the underprivileged children? A: Teachers are encouraged to put in their best. These would ultimately provide a cheaper and qualitative education. Notwithstanding, we would look into ways to ensure that children who are very bright but underprivileged go to school."

"Today, the issue of food insecurity worldwide is at a critical stage. All of us cannot deny that it is a tragedy of today that one billion people go to bed hungry everyday with a no better tomorrow."

"That is to say that every day, about 60 million Nigerians go to bed hungry, this should challenge us as well as touch us deeply."

"Nigeria must increase food production through the development of relevant machinery and equipment to process and produce more food."

"Food insecurity is a major concern to majority of the developing world."

"Unfortunately, there have been, and are, in the world, very few governments in which the right of passive or unarmed resistance is acknowledged. By most governments, such resistance is considered and treated as no better than open rebellion, which thus becomes the sole resource of oppressed subjects."

"The library is in a noble hall, and looks splendidly with its vista of alcoves. The most remarkable sight, however, was Mr. Hildreth, writing his history of the United States; he sits at a table, at the entrance of one of the alcoves, with his books and papers before him; as quiet and absorbed as he could be in the loneliest study; now consulting an authority, now penning a sentence or a paragraph, without seeming conscious of anything but his subject. It is very curious, thus to have a glimpse of a book in process of creation under one's eye. I know not how many hours he sits there; but while I saw him, he was a pattern of diligence and unwandering thought; he had taken himself out of this age, and put himself, I suppose, into that which he was writing about."

"The challenge in the market is that FMCG distribution is really fragmented."

"Taking the product from the manufacturer to the retailer is a tough task and there are various threads in the mix."

"What really excites me about Nigeria is the warmth of the people. On the professional side, the opportunities for scaling and creating impact in the market keep us in Nigeria – and jollof rice is an important part of life, of course."

"Finding essential products at the right price – or even ensuring availability – became a very big challenge, predominantly because distribution has multiple layers of process, and these layers are not digitised or connected."

"The profitability journey was an outcome of our efficiency on utilizing the assets that we aggregated in the network, and this has proven that the model that we put together as a ‘network of networks."

"We’re expanding now not just to grow, but to optimize."