#nigeria

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#being #black #culture #full #growing

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

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

The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#audacity #creativity #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspiration #instrumentality

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#endowed #energetic #human #human resources #lacks

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. ↗

— David Miliband

#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see. ↗

— Orji Uzor Kalu

#abia-state #business #businessman #governor #journalism