Achievement Quote by Ibrahim Babangida

“But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.”

Ibrahim Babangida

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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national…

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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling…

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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the…

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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while…

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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the…

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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as…

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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

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