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" 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. "

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

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

" There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. "

" 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. "