Best 103 quotes in «nigeria quotes» category

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.

To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.

Weh!

We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it

We must stop calling corruption a “Nigerian factor”.

We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values

Whenever the grass looks greener on the other side. Stop staring, stop comparing, stop complaining and start watering the grass you are standing on to grow the Naira.

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.

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

You and I must work together to develop Nigeria to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve all the basic essentials.

You can't put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation.

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

Change Won’t Happen Immediately, as Nigeria’s Problems Didn’t Start Overnight

I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.

Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

A nation is safer and progressive when the citizens own or are involved in healthy businesses that can aid them enjoy good livelihood without any fear for tomorrow.

What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity.

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

Any leader who feel the pain and fight for you. Support him or you lose but if that leader doesn't feel the pain and fight for you. Don't support him, fight for yourself, be a leader and fight for others.

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves.

Can this Nigeria, without external support, bake her own bread, sew her own garments, drill her own oil, produce her own cars, fly her own planes, design her own cities and, fight her own wars? What can this Nigeria do? Or does development come through stages and Nigeria, unfortunately, still occupies a learning stage?

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

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.

De adoptie van mijn dochter gaf mij meer dan het moederschap alleen.

Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization

Despite the turbulence our nation has experienced, we WILL arrive safely and without incident!

Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!

Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.

Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’s eyes, thanks to Okokpujie’s words, a mighty force that swung the entire village to action. Pg.38

Contemplating while barefoot on the grounds my father and grandfather walked, I saw my life clearly. With African sun nibbling on my dark skin and gentle winds soothing my foreboding, my past life and current responsibilities overwhelmed me occasionally. Abundant tears flowed freely. Dripping on my face and clothes. Travelling through the ancient roads created by my forefathers, grasslands, trees and anthills kept me company. A lonely journey. I knew that nothing remains the same, but ones past never changes. Even in the loneliness of my past, I accepted that you cannot effectively go forward without knowing how and where you started your journey. Even in that state of near dejection I was aware that my sojourn in foreign lands is not forever, but my lording of this beautiful land, my own Africa, where my spent body will finally rest someday, is for eternity. Nothing remains the same, but nothing ever changes. It depends on how you look at your life.

Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to the population; the introduction of more sophisticated exploration methods makes it even worse. Oil companies now look for smarter, leaner and cheaper operations. Where will these leave the economy? Good disposable income to the government with no real value to the people of the Niger Delta.

Every part of Nigeria is blessed.

Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming, infectious smile that was reflected in his eyes. It made her smile widely in return. She felt as if the room had been lit up. He held out his arms, and she went across the room to him, almost running. She buried her face in his shirt, her nose wrinkling up as the scent of his cologne mixed with the nutty, sourish smell of camphor that filled the room. He put his arms around her, but gently, so that there was space between his forearms and her back, holding her as if she was to fragile to hug properly. Awkwardly, he patted her light, bushy aureole of dark brown hair, repeating: "Good girl. Fine daughter.

For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

God forbid that we become so brainwashed as to embrace a politician as a messiah and believe what the media portrays him or her to be. Until their tenure is up and they have done their bit, every politician is just another politician.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

Great nations are built by great people, not just successful people

Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100

Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.