Abiola Dosunmu

"""The territory of Lagos has always been an extension of the Benin Kingdom in the sense that they used it as a passage to the port for their trading and interaction with foreigners. We all know that foreigners visited the Benin Empire long before colonialism and signing of the treaty of Lagos""."

"""I have been there and I believe in it; I believe that our culture, our tradition is what we are and is who we are and then if we make it second-class, then we will remain second-class people in the world""."

"While other countries were granted debt reliefs, our lenders initially refused to grant same to us because they said we were a wealthy country, and didn’t deserve it. At the end of the day, we got it, had a clean slate and were not saddled by any loans""."