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

" You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

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

" It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation. "

" 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. "

" There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "