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

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" 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. "

" There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin. "

" Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature. "

" 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. "

" The Nigerian economy is a huge one. "

" 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. "

" You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people. "

" 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. "

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

" 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. "

" No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. "

" Hate speech is a specie of terrorism. "

" Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "