Nigeria Quotes

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  • What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

  • In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.

  • Nigeria will start exporting cars soon

    Car   Exporting   Nigeria  
  • I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And the truth is, when I looked at the rise of violent forms of religion, no single identity was prevalent. It's central to note that in Nigeria, that tree is rooted primarily in Christianity. It's not just Islamic militants in the Middle Belt.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

    Space   Long   People  
  • Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  • It's not going to determine whether I will remain with Nigeria or not. I don't have a contract and I'm not depending on this match to give me a contract. So please don't think I will die in the Nigeria job.

    Jobs   Thinking   Giving  
    Source: www.sl10.ng
  • We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria and we elevated what I call the reign of mediocrity. Quite frankly, I think it is about repudiating the past, creating space for new thinking for the best of the new generation, creating both political and geographical space and going at it with single mindedness that says, 'enough of buttering, sentiments and massaging the ego of the old brigade'.

    Past   Thinking   Space  
    Source: saharareporters.com
  • When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

    "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.
  • There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

    "Update: 2015: Choosing between “Two Devils”-Jonathan And Buhari,”corruption personified And Islamic-Bigot”; do you really have a choice in 2015?", republicreporters.com. November 6, 2014.
  • I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

    Country   Oil   Petroleum  
  • I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

    Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.
  • You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

  • When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used.

    Country   Oil   People  
    Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.
  • I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

    Home   Found   Nigeria  
  • Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

  • Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

    Suicide   Stress   People  
    Source: www.oprah.com
  • I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

    "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" By Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.
  • I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

    Home   Eye   Years  
    "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.
  • Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

  • I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

    "Five Questions with Hollywood Rookie Dayo Okeniyi on 'The Hunger Games'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. March 21, 2012.
  • Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

  • So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.

    People   Wish   Kind  
    "Oyeyemi's 'Opposite House'". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.
  • When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

    Games   People   Hip Hop  
    Source: mobo.com
  • From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

    "The king and I" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.
  • The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

  • I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

    Daughter   Shame   Mourn  
    1982 Destination Biafra.
  • May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

    Peace   Blood   People  
    "Pope's Christmas message: Iraq and Syria have suffered too long" by Susanna Capelouto, www.cnn.com. December 25, 2014.
  • Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

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