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All Quotes by author - Yemi Osinbajo
" Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes. "
Rise
Technology
Underestimate
" Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global. "
Africa
Women
Society
" An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society. "
Society
System
Active
" Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail. "
Nation
Will
Integrity
" As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil. "
Need
Oil
Aware
" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "
Back
You
Fights
" Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term. "
Corrupt
Treat
Financial
" Corruption has been tolerated for too long now, and with Buhari, we will, for the first time ever, have a president who will fight corruption. He will act so that people will be deterred from corruption. "
Time
Corruption
Fight
" Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building. "
Building
Growth
Without
" Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits. "
Great
Men
Abundance
" Hate speech is a specie of terrorism. "
Terrorism
Hate
Speech
" Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature. "
Here
Conflict
Executive
" I am so pleased and happy, and I believe that the Almighty God has a plan for our nation by putting us in strategic positions in politics, business, and everywhere. "
Politics
I Am
Business
" If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society. "
Authority
Society
People
" If the church says we will not accept you here or that we will expose you if you are stealing the resources of the country or stealing the resources of a private company or other establishment, where you work, then we would not have the type of problem that we have in this country. If only the church does so - just the church. "
Country
Problem
Church
" If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account. "
Church
Man
You
" If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. "
Up
Go
Nigeria
" If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it. "
Church
Support
Government
" If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were. "
China
Wrong
You
" In stabilizing the macroeconomic environment, we have focused on aligning fiscal with monetary policy and nudging the central bank toward the objective of more market-determined exchange rates. "
Policy
Bank
More
" It doesn't matter where one starts from; it doesn't matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference. "
Start
Difference
Matter
" It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair. "
Also
Process
Nation
" It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country. "
God
Tribe
Way
" It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control. "
Violence
Will
Government
" It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation. "
Integrity
Nation
Us
" I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays. "
Today
Spiritual
Future
" I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter. "
Fight
Business
Know
" Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts. "
Conflict
Insecurity
Time
" Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it. "
Lie
Future
Greed
" 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. "
Negative
Government
Consequences
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