Top 100 Nigeria's Quotes
#1. Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
#2. In the end millions (some state upward of three million, mostly children) had died, mainly from starvation due to the federal government of Nigeria's blockade policies.
Chinua Achebe
#3. Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
Wendy Kopp
#4. Corruption is an inevitable by-product of the present structure of Nigeria's federalism. Once we restructure the polity into a true fiscal federalism, everything else will simply fall into place. Until then, corruption remains as official as it is legal in Nigeria.
Tony Osborg
#5. Change Won't Happen Immediately, as Nigeria's Problems Didn't Start Overnight
Mo Abudu
#6. Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#7. Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years
Tony Elumelu
#8. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
Ogwo David Emenike
#9. What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
#10. In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.
Chris Christie
#11. There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#12. Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
#13. Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.
Wole Soyinka
#14. I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
Chinua Achebe
#15. When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.
Bruce Beresford
#16. I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#17. Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
Muhammadu Buhari
#18. When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.
Jason Chaffetz
#19. Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill Gates
#20. My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I always enjoyed being around it. However, it wasn't until I started making music that I started taking a vested interest.
Tinie Tempah
#21. I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo."
-Liberty Jones
Lisa Kleypas
#22. Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#23. The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
Ibrahim Babangida
#24. When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
Nicole Beharie
#25. To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE ...
Barack Obama
#27. You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
Ben Okri
#28. I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.
Hamzatribah
#29. When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
Chris Abani
#30. The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.
Yakubu Gowon
#31. If you are a Nigerian professor and your professorship cannot be felt practically in the Nigerian society; then to hell with your professorship!
Tony Osborg
#32. From 1960-2015 Nigerians live under the rules of those who are above the law, but from 2015 we hope for a little change, and if there is no change in 2015, only God knows what will happened.
Hamzatribah
#33. I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
Uzo Aduba
#34. Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
Nneka
#35. If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. If you're looking at distributing alternative energy in Nigeria, for instance, what gets in your way is not people's ability to pay, not people's desire for a clean solar lamps or biomass opportunities. But there is a strong status quo that really depends on selling diesel.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#37. Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it ... nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work.
Aliko Dangote
#38. We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.
Goodluck Jonathan
#40. Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!
Stephen Keshi
#41. To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project
Okey Ndibe
#42. TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely
Fela Durotoye
#44. Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
#45. Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country.
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
#46. Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world
Olusegun Obasanjo
#47. Only mosquito can save Nigeria. Only mosquito can save South Africa. Only mosquito can save Zimbabwe Only mosquito can save Namibia. Only mosquito can save Africa. Only malaria can save Africa. Only yellow fever can save Africa.
Laurie Garrett
#48. We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values
Fela Durotoye
#49. People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third
Atiku Abubakar
#50. The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality.
Peter Akinola
#51. I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.
Sefi Atta
#52. I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I think we've moved beyond that Africans vs. African Americans. They may have more issues with us than we do with them.
Mo Abudu
#53. My joy knows no bounds ... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#54. An economy funded by subsidy is no economy in an ideal sense.
Tony Osborg
#55. Strange things are happening to us.'To our children.'They say
he is looking for the spirit of Independence.'They say he is looking for himself.'For his own
spirit.'Which he lost when the white man came.
Ben Okri
#56. 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.
Chinua Achebe
#57. Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else
Fela Durotoye
#58. What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies
Fela Durotoye
#59. In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.
Nneka
#60. I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
Toks Olagundoye
#61. The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
I.B. Opene
#63. I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.
Muhammadu Buhari
#64. Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing the Obama administration, especially Benghazi and the Select Committee.
Allen West
#65. I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
Nonso Anozie
#66. 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.
Wole Soyinka
#68. In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters
Sunday Adelaja
#69. We must stop calling corruption a "Nigerian factor".
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Without doubt, our inability to design and implement a sustainable economic framework has resulted to our present ranking on the globalization index; a precious market to the productive countries.
Tony Osborg
#71. My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
Goodluck Jonathan
#72. As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all
Fela Durotoye
#73. We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.
Goodluck Jonathan
#74. An enlightened and empowered generation is the key to our development in Nigeria and indeed in Africa
Fela Durotoye
#75. The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out.
Emi Iyalla
#76. It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#77. The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.
Bob Marley
#78. To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen
Fela Durotoye
#79. This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people's hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#80. Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#81. 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.
Dayo Okeniyi
#82. Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
Goodluck Jonathan
#84. This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
Daniel Yergin
#85. I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.
Chris Abani
#86. 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.
Buchi Emecheta
#87. Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses
Fela Durotoye
#88. To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#89. 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.
Tam David-West
#90. I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
Chinua Achebe
#91. Despite the turbulence our nation has experienced, we WILL arrive safely and without incident!
Fela Durotoye
#92. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#93. My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba
#94. And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand
David Coleman
#95. A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don't see.
Orji Uzor Kalu
#96. 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.
Pope Francis
#97. There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
Sade Adu
#98. If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come in, you have to give them some money. If you don't, you're in trouble.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#99. None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.
Emi Iyalla
#100. People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua Achebe
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