The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent — Kwame Nkrumah
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country. — Olusegun Obasanjo
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
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination. — Che Guevara
In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth — Fela Kuti
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. — Jawaharlal Nehru
The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. — Jomo Kenyatta
At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever! — Kwame Nkrumah
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it. — Samuel Adams
What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity. — Masai Ujiri
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal
Nigeria Quotes
Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not. — Obafemi Awolowo
Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too. — Mia Farrow
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
Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence
I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody. — Muhammadu Buhari
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
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States. — Yakubu Gowon
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. — Abraham Lincoln
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
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they — Ben Okri
Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country. — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
Nigerian Quotes
On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans. — J. Philippe Rushton
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians. — Ben Okri
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace. — Goodluck Jonathan
It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative. — Wole Soyinka
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
My political ambition
is not worth the blood of any Nigerian — Goodluck Jonathan
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. — Ibrahim Babangida
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
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension. — Peter Akinola
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. — Patrick Henry
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child. — Lou Engle
The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. — Enoch Powell
A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come. — Tara Fela-Durotoye
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. — John F. Kennedy
What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies — Tara Fela-Durotoye
Bad men cannot make good citizens. — Patrick Henry
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. — Chinua Achebe
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. — Chinua Achebe
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria. — Binyavanga Wainaina
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. — Augusto Roa Bastos
One person is nothing. Two people are a nation. — Terry Pratchett
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. — Frank Herbert
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations. — Kofi Annan
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory — Victor Hugo
Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent. — Criss Jami
Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been. — Tinie Tempah
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance. — Wole Soyinka
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