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" Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials. "
Yemi Osinbajo
Network
Economy
Will
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" 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. "
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" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "
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" There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can. "
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" 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. "
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" The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits. "
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" Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits. "
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" Here in Nigeria, what makes the news is conflict between the executive and the legislature. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation. "
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" 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. "
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" The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity. "
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" We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. "
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" 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. "
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" The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation. "
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" The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance. "
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" The most important thing for Africa is that whoever wants to invest in our countries should start in manufacturing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building. "
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" 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. "
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" Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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