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

" The most important thing for Africa is that whoever wants to invest in our countries should start in manufacturing. "

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

" An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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