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Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.


Wole Soyinka

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It is a new low. And in Nigeria that is saying something.
GANI FAWEHINMI If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will...
ED ROYCE Global demand has pushed oil prices to a new higher platform, and risks of serious supply disruption...
DAVID THURTELL Disaster management in Nigeria is almost zero. If there's a major disaster in Nigeria, we won't be a...
EMMANUEL IJEWERE In Nigeria today, we have problems of power, water, accommodation, food, health care, security and t...
SOTONYE ANGA My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for se...
DAVID OYELOWO Nigeria, for all its difficulties, offers quite a bit.
ANTONY GOLDMAN You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN The risk now is Nigeria - and losing the commitment in other countries. But we're confident now that...
DAVID L. HEYMANN Africa, outside of Nigeria, is back on track ... Nigeria remains the single greatest risk to eradica...
DAVID HEYMANN What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reor...
SUNDAY ADELAJA This is a sad day for Africa for Nigeria to succumb to this.
ERIC KENNEDY Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.
GEORGE GERO A further deterioration of the situation in Nigeria, or escalation of nuclear brinkmanship with the ...
JASON SCHENKER There is a high probability of further disruptions in Nigeria as we haven't seen the end of the atta...
TONY NUNAN There are large companies, but there are also new companies in the country, small companies searchin...
ARMANDO ZAMORA I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be....
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE All people of Nigeria whether they live in North, South, East and West or in any part of the country...
SAMINU KANTI Yes, there is less supply in Nigeria but that is not enough to cut into oversupply.
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one.
A NEW MOTHER A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The global market is one big swimming pool. Tomorrow the workers go on strike in Nigeria, and we pay...
FEREIDUN FESHARAKI Production in the Gulf has yet to recover and the trouble in Nigeria shows no signs of easing. We ar...
FRANK VERRASTRO Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But un...
SUSAN RICE Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and o...
TINIE TEMPAH My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN China is a very important economic partner to Nigeria, because it is a bastion of economic cooperati...
REMI OYO We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN Nigeria produces mostly the light, sweet crude oil for which there is more demand. With Iran, my mai...
ANETTE EINARSEN Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.
JIDENNA We have great growth prospects with the current portfolio, but you always have to keep adding new th...
MARC CHARDON The next generation of Millionaires and Billionaires in Nigeria will be farmers and Agribusiness peo...
SOTONYE ANGA The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Besides the Iranian situation, difficulties in Nigeria...have prompted follow-through buying.
MIKE FITZPATRICK While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges th...
JIDENNA The frog does not run in the daytime for nothing. - Igbo, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERB I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one...
WOLE SOYINKA This is just drifting around. But the Nigeria situation, as the weeks wear on, is providing a firmer...
MIKE WITTNER We as Nigerians do not know how lucky we are …with everything falling apart in several other count...
AROMIRE YETUNDE CLARIS I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wishe...
WOLE SOYINKA There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as ...
SADE ADU The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERB Someday, farmers in Nigeria will own private jets
SOTONYE ANGA When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.
JASON CHAFFETZ A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS We have very ambitious expansion plans. We are planting more sugar cane fields. We are building new ...
EDUARDO CARVALHO People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL To say the truth, I am worried and wonder how far our Agriculture can go with budget allocation of l...
SOTONYE ANGA I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would k...
BEN OKRI There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop p...
BRUCE AYLWARD We are still quite strong in spite of expectations for product stock builds. Question marks over Nig...
CHRISTOPHER BELLEW The Governor of Nigeria doesn't think that militants are set to attack again soon and that has appar...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK Everybody in the family is being tested. We have taken the samples to different places, both in Nige...
ABDULSALAM NASIDI There is an urgent need for farmers in Nigeria to be subsidized. You can never go wrong giving subsi...
SOTONYE ANGA Our nation Nigeria CAN & MUST become a great place to live, otherwise we will have to answer to ...
FELA DUROTOYE In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters
SUNDAY ADELAJA That's how Nigeria fell into civil war in the 1960s.
LARRY DIAMOND I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 1...
TIM O'REILLY Why should I keep thinking and talking about a tree my fore fathers did not plant, I can plant one n...
SEGUN OLOGE To be happy in one's home is better than to be a chief. Yoruba, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS Today is a new day for the land.
ANTONIS SAMARAS Such is the momentum and rigidity in views surrounding the Iranian issue, and such is the intensity ...
KEVIN NORRISH I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it s...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nige...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say yo...
TINA TURNER My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.
NNEKA Iran and Nigeria are uncertainties that hang over the market and can change the fundamentals very qu...
DAVID FYFE Unfortunately, here we are. Four years after purchasing the Marlins, with no new stadium and no sure...
JEFFREY LORIA The instability and disorderliness we have in Nigeria today and Africa at large is totally due to th...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Note to the New York State Republican Party: Don't despair - you may not have to settle for John Spe...
BLAKE ZEFF You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories tha...
BEN OKRI Agriculture is expensive, and for Nigeria to be competitive in the sector we need to really increase...
SOTONYE ANGA The time to make Agribusiness in Nigeria to yield increase and profits for our people is now
SOTONYE ANGA Watch out for the Billionaire farmer. They will soon take the center stage in Nigeria and Africa
SOTONYE ANGA I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN We're as stunned as anybody about this, and I have to say we don't fully understand it. But I think ...
RICHARD SMITH The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What Nigeria did to Taylor is what Zimbabwe should do to Mengistu.
NELSON CHAMISA Weh!
CHRIS CLEAVE And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.
CHINUA ACHEBE I love Nigerians because they are extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.
SAMINU KANTI In Nigeria creativity is the key to productivity and prosperity to develop our country.
SAMINU KANTI Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensiv...
CHINUA ACHEBE I will then proceed to exercise the invitation granted to me by the president of Nigeria.
CHARLES TAYLOR In Nigeria we must have the dream, believe the dream, live the dream and work to build the dream and...
SAMINU KANTI It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello ...
ERNIE HARWELL We are disappointed we lost our first game of the tournament. We made a few mistakes and we were pun...
PETER NDLOVU I have not yet seen a final draft of the new government's guidelines, but we will not compromise on ...
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN I just think this is a natural progression that is going to bring us ever higher. Concerns about Nig...
MIKE FITZPATRICK Frankly, it's a better environment for us. We're spending time in Indiana and have more prospects he...
JOHN APLIN Hopefully, we can contain it within Nigeria. Just to deal with the whole continent of Africa, I don'...
ALEX THIERMANN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orl...
MARIO BATALI I think one of the things that I picked up from Nigeria is the constant pressure to be excellent. Pa...
JIDENNA The market was concentrating on Nigeria, Iran and the latest bin Laden tape.
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