Nigeria Quotes · Page 5

A lot of my friends were Chelsea fans and a few Manchester United, but in Nigeria everyone watches Premier League.

— Victor Osimhen

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

— William Golding

Elections in Nigeria Under My Watch Have Been Credible and Transparent

— Goodluck Jonathan

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

— Malala Yousafzai

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

— Yemi Osinbajo

I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my…

— Yvonne Orji

Nigeria has always been my choice if called up, and when they did, I was happy.

— Victor Moses

We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as…

— Yemi Osinbajo

I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child…

— Ayobami Adebayo

My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's…

— Kevin Olusola

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the…

— Sefi Atta

“Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else”

— Fela Durotoye

I mean I've seen so many kids on the street when we're like in the bus, they're screaming 'go Nigeria, go Nigeria,'…

— Alex Iwobi

There are about 100 German companies in Nigeria, and German investors have earned a lot of respect from Nigeria because of the…

— Muhammadu Buhari

“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked…

— Wole Soyinka

Growing up in Nigeria I saw real poverty - I experienced it, including living without electricity and doing my homework by candlelight,…

— Kemi Badenoch

“If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“We are educated for whatever sake. For Nigeria to move forward, we must stop comparison and ignore religious views in dealing with…

— Olawale Daniel

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs…

— Goodluck Jonathan

I was examining what religious identity meant in Africa. Along the edge of the Islamic world, what patterns were shaping identity? And…

— Eliza Griswold

Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would…

— Chika Anadu

Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Hopin' The world cup is ours...cheering and screaming for hours. Even if we climbed towers SPAIN IS STILL HIGH. Nigeria

— @efiosiugbore

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

— Nneka

I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.

— Raila Odinga

“Despite the turbulence our nation has experienced, we WILL arrive safely and without incident!”

— Fela Durotoye

“Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.”

— Nike Thaddeus

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

— Okey Ndibe

Nigeria has a lot of Man City fans, and they're going to have more every time I go home.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

“We didn't do anything illegal, all we ever did was exist as IGBO PEOPLE.”

— Genereux Philip

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

— Burna Boy

“No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process”

— Fela Durotoye

“We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values”

— Fela Durotoye

“Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

— Wole Soyinka

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

“I hate neutrality becouse is the worst thing that ever happened”

— Hamzatribah