Book Quote by Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— 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…

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Ibrahim Babangida