Nigeria Quotes

I feel very honoured and proud to be playing for Nigeria.

— Alex Iwobi

I founded this school for the masses.

— Atiku Abubakar

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

— Nneka

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE...

— Barack Obama

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

— Malcolm X

“Youths are the life blood of any nation.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

— Sade Adu

“We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence”

— Fela Durotoye

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

— Patrick Cox

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

— Pete Hoekstra

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

— Patience Jonathan

I haven't been to Nigeria, but my dad and I have talked about going. I have a grandma over there who's been…

— Jarome Iginla

“For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to…

— Ibrahim Babangida

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

It's not going to determine whether I will remain with Nigeria or not. I don't have a contract and I'm not depending…

— Stephen Keshi

I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria.…

— Mo Abudu

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She…

— Chris Abani

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

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I…

— Anonymous

“TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time &…

— Fela Durotoye

Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it...nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their…

— Aliko Dangote

“Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a…

— Nwankwo Kanu

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

Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many…

— Yemi Osinbajo

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria…

— David Miliband

If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when…

— Hillel Neuer

Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn…

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Chinua Achebe

The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I…

— Chinua Achebe

It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,…

— Paolo Gentiloni

“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the…

— Hemley Boum