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

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

" 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. "

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

" Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Nigerian economy is a huge one. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

" 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. "