#niger

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. ↗

— Donal Logue

#i #ireland #me #missionary #mom

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #eradicate #human #material #nigeria

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

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #dictatorship #fight #ii #injustice

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#devote #energy #god #humanity #i

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#bounds #devote #energy #humanity #i

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. ↗

— Ben Okri

#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#average #chinese #different #each #israelis

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

— Fela Durotoye

#change #liberty #national #nigeria #change

I died last night. Seventy years too young. ↗

— Colin Thompson

#early-death #famine #global #ignorance #niger

TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#generations #hope #leadership #life-lessons #nigeria