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

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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. "

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

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

" Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am so pleased and happy, and I believe that the Almighty God has a plan for our nation by putting us in strategic positions in politics, business, and everywhere. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "