"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."

"You do me great wrong, therefore to think that, like a rock in the middle of a lake, forever cooled by flowing waters, I do not know, and cannot know the sun's hotness that burns and dries up the open land."

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

"Apprentice barber is sitting on the stool. Nothing to do, he is leafing through the pages of some tattered newspapers…all of which report on Talks – all spices of Talks…On the bench at the other side of the shop the Master Barber himself lies full length, face heavenwards asleep…"

"What's the man so proud about, fighting to advance British imperialism in Africa? And the two of you sitting there, encouraging such vulgar memories... From the day the White man set foot on our shores! First, Rum to our fathers: to confuse their minds. Then Rifles to shoot ourselves. The aftermath? Ruin. Slavery and external ruin!"

"Me fight am sojar for Lugard. 1901, we take am Kontagora. West Africa Frontier Force. Me dey 1902 we take am Bauchi, go Borno. Lugard telli me...(patting himself on the back) 'Good man, good man!' 1903 - we take am Kano, take am Sokoto. Lugard make am me Corpul-one rope..."

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

"Poverty has also endeavoured to enlist the usefulness of a hook-up wooden radio and a standing fan - albeit a scrawny and temperamental oddity."

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

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

"A madman is like a child, he speaks the truth without knowing it."

"When a man's wife is mad, the whole town knows, but when a man is mad, only his wife knows."

"When a man's beard is on fire, he does not worry about whose axe is sharp."

"If you rise too early the dew of life will soak you."

"Two rams cannot drink in the same bucket at the same time. They will lock horns."

"A man who cannot control his wife is like a chief who cannot control his subjects."

"A man who has no respect for his wife is like a farmer who has no respect for his farm."

"Large-faced, burly hunk of choice meat and big bones. He is affluently attired although with a touch of the bumpkin."

"The hyena flirts with the hen, the hen is happy, not knowing that her death has come."

"Me an Ijekun man, a stranger in your tribe [stares at CHIEFS] when crocodiles eat their own egg, what will they not do to the flesh of a frog."

"If you think you can drum for my downfall, and hope that, drum will sound, then your head is not good."

"Have I been sleeping? If so, I am sick in the head: for only a madman would go to sleep with his roof on fire."

"Kolanut last long in the mouths of them who value it."

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

"If you think like a tortoise you can plot against me without my first cutting you down with my own tortoise tricks, then, fellow, madness is in your liver."

"By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from tree to tree without falling."

"I asked my new wife to stay with my brother until I thatch my roof. Soon she begins to put on weight, and she says he is kind and gentle. But slowly, the day breaks and her stomach reveal the secret"

"Ovonramwen our Lord. A rare one that has no stain, nor does he has dirt. One whose character is as white as the white bird (enibokun)."

"Oba Ovonramwen, son of Adolo. Here in subdued glory with the white man's feathers fluttering like a peacock unsure of what weather of the day to spread its wonderful, colourful wings. Here I am, posing for the white man's jejers […..] He desired my empire and envied my position, and wanted my throne. […..] Here I am aboard the British yacht in leg irons."

"It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion"

"When the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance? As we have made you King, act as King."

"When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots? Has the richness of kingly life washed off the love of our King for his people?"

"Your highness, if you think to have heavy suspicion is wisdom, then your head is not well."

"He picks up a comb from the table, blows dust and loose hair off it. But as he leans forward with the comb to dig into Man’s hair, Man jerks his head backwards, dodging the Barber’s contact. Barber’s hands halt in mid-air, himself startled."

"I clear the earth and another says the land belongs to his mother. I plant my seeds, and another says it belongs to his father. My seeds grow, And he says he worked hard during the planting season. Like the lazy python, he has always had eyes on my eggs………"

"I hold on to the maxim that if one lives right and does right, everything shall be alright. So, I try to be good and live by the ideas, ideals and ideology of Islam."

"Marriage has taught me that it is just a union of two imperfect persons seeking perpetually to make sacrifices and understand each other."

"No country can develop unless its citizens are educated. Education does not change the world. Education changes people, people change the world"

"Illiteracy, poverty and low development indices have roots in the low level of education. Today, more than ever, the main wealth source is knowledge. The global economy is being transformed from a material-based economy to a knowledge-based economy."

"Our educational system is driving in reverse full throttle without the use of the back or side mirrors. In the same vein, our secondary school graduates can be best described as half-baked illiterates who constitute a danger to the society and to themselves."

"All we need is implementation, that is what we need. Once it has been implemented all our children from primary yo tertiary institutions will be digitally literate."

"Technology is like our inorganic DNA if you like and so it has become imperative to appreciate the role of technology in teaching and learning so that the next generation will be better placed in appreciating the world and of being trained so that they are better suit for the work force and better entrepreneurs."

"There is a clear and direct relationship between a country’s development, economic progress, and education offered to its people."

"It goes without saying, therefore, that higher education contributes significantly to the political, scientific, technological, economic, social and human development of any country"

"To press home their demands without necessarily down-tooling, ASUU should consider the long-term needs of universities and advise the government accordingly. This makes for good planning and budgeting"

"There is nothing positive or salutary about incessant strike actions, or indeed any single strike action in public universities. It is an indication of lack of trust, lack of integrity in the implementation of agreed negotiations. It indicates that the government and ASUU are not on the same page regarding their commitment and management of higher education in Nigeria."

"All over the world people have embraced technology much more than we think. There is nothing you can do now without technology. Technology has taken over all parts of our system."

"In Khartoum and southern Cameroon and other places there were students in final year who all have to flee, as it was libraries and books have all being burnt."

"University education is critical and it is been ignored in countries like Somalia, South Sudan Northern Niger, Chad."

"if there is crisis in any Africa country affecting the university there it then means the student can transfer acquired credits to the new choice university in another country and continue the work."