Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.