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" As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil. "

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" We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so. "

" The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance. "

" Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry. "

" The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. "

" Hate speech is a specie of terrorism. "

" 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. "

" Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile. "

" 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. "

" Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries. "

" The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge. "

" No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push. "

" 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. "

" We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down. "

" 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. "

" The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials. "

" 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. "

" Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made. "

" If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it. "

" 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. "