Nigeria Quotes - page 4

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)
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. View quote
Chinua Achebe
After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization. View quote
Meles Zenawi
Growing up, I experienced this viscerally because my parents are from Nigeria, I was born and raised in America and my parents tried to hand over that identity card and that didn't fit me because I was growing up in a context in which their identity didn't necessarily line up with how I saw myself... View quote
Tope Folarin
May we at this stage remind our Muslim brothers that they do not have the monopoly of violence in this nation. Nigeria belongs to all of us – Christians, Muslims and members of other faiths. No amount of intimidation can Change this time-honoured arrangement in this nation. C. A. N. may no longer be able to contain our restive youths should this ugly trend continue. View quote
Peter Akinola
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned. View quote
Sade Adu
The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature. (Yemi Osinbajo)
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent. View quote
Yemi Osinbajo
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. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"In Nigeria I'm not black...We don't do race in Nigeria. We do ethnicity a lot, but not race. My friends here don't really get it. Some of them sound like white Southerners from 1940. They say, 'Why are black people complaining about race? Racism doesn't exist!' View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The rhythm of life here is different from that of Nigeria. I really liked the efficiency and accessibility of things here, the educational opportunities. And I was touched by the beauty and tolerance it has taken to fashion America. But, for instance, the thing about old people staying in "homes" away from home blew my mind. As did how little Americans know or want to know about life elsewhere... View quote
Uwem Akpan
I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don't agree; I'm wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No. (Wole Soyinka)
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet. View quote
Wole Soyinka
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. View quote
Hugo Weaving
What happened in Brussels was a co-production by adepts of two sick ideologies. The first one is Islamism in its many versions, including Khomeinism in Iran, Talibanism in Afghanistan, Salafism in Arab countries, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and ISIS and its offshoots across the globe. It will remain firmly in place until it implodes under the weight of its savage contradictions, as did the old Soviet Union, or is defeated in a war, as was the case with Nazi Germany and imperialist Japan. The other co-producer, the mushy and politically correct "liberal” ideology that has seduced segments of opinion in Western democracies, can and must be combated by all those who wish to protect the democratic system in an increasingly dangerous world. View quote
Amir Taheri