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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. "
Yemi Osinbajo
Balance
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society. "
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" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "
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" 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. "
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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 are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism. "
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" Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries. "
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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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" 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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" If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it. "
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" The truth is that many, if not most, nations of the world are made up of different peoples - and cultures and beliefs and religions - who find themselves thrown together by circumstance. "
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" Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials. "
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" It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country. "
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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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" 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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" 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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