Nigeria Quotes · Page 9

“Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria…

— Wole Soyinka

As an NBA executive, I'm always looking for untapped potential. As a proud native of Nigeria, I believe that Africa is one…

— Masai Ujiri

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

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

— Fela Durotoye

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly…

— Chinua Achebe

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I…

— Buchi Emecheta

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

— Yemi Osinbajo

What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of…

— Chinua Achebe

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

I founded this school for the masses.

— Atiku Abubakar

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

— Nneka

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I grew up in a place called Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the youngest of four. What I remember most about Nigeria was the…

— Yvonne Orji

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and…

— Annie Ilonzeh

Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

People in Nigeria weren't happy that I went to Qatar. They said 'why did you go there of all places?' They missed…

— Jay-Jay Okocha

I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I…

— Burna Boy

I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including…

— Justine Larbalestier

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

— Wole Soyinka

I have always wanted to play for Nigeria and I enjoy each minute we gather and when we play.

— Alex Iwobi

“I hate our current leaders becouse they don't know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon…

— Hamzatribah

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

— Masai Ujiri