“Today I received 21 dear daughters. They have seen the worst that the world has to offer. It is now time for them to experience the best.”
– President Muhammadu Buhari says, while receiving the 21 Chibok girls released by the Boko Haram terrorists (Source: Twitter)
“The one thing you have over me is experience. But it’s bad experience.”
– Republican candidate, Donald Trump, tells his rival, Hilary Clinton of the Democratic party, during the last U.S presidential debate (Source: NBC News)
“He (President Goodluck Jonathan) said he had talked to all the leaders in Ondo State and that if PDP lost the election, it would be because of me. Then I asked Jonathan, ‘What if you lose in the whole of Nigeria? Would that still be because of me?’ That was the end of our conversation.”
– Jimoh Ibrahim, PDP governorship candidate in Ondo State, blaming the state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, for the defeat of Jonathan in the state during the 2015 presidential election (Source: The Punch)
“If we could defeat military despots, no civilian dictator will be tolerated by the Nigerian people. I don’t believe in the assertion that the arrest of a few judges is an indication that the state has become fascistic. There is nothing dictatorial in arresting criminal suspects accused of corrupt practices.”
– Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana, on the recent arrest of some judges by the State Security Services (Source: The Punch)
“I move as a former head of state to offer the nation’s profound regrets and my personal apology to the good people of Oloibiri with the prayers to the present and future government at all levels in the land to work towards redressing the wrongs of the past to these people.”
– Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former military Head of State, after seeing a movie titled ‘Oloibiri’, apologized to the people of Oloibiri, Bayelsa State, for the devastation oil exploration has brought to the community and how it has been neglected by successive government. (Source: The Cable)
“If any party fields Aisha Buhari as a Presidential candidate in 2019, I would be tempted to not only vote for her but to campaign for her!”
– Reno Omokri, social commentator and critic of President Muhammadu Buhari (Source: Twitter)
“The Chief Justice of Nigeria wishes to state in clear terms that the ‘sting’ operations carried out by the DSS on 07 and 08 October 2016 was certainly an assault on the independence of the Nigerian Judiciary.”
– Chief Justice of Nigeria Mahmud Mohammed (Source: The Nation)
“The agitations and counter agitations are ill-timed. We have been together for over 100 years and it is very difficult for us to part ways.”
– Former governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, on the call for the restructuring of Nigeria (Source: The Nation)
“We (the Igbos) should destroy this idea of victimhood; we are not the only people who have suffered and are still suffering ‘to keep Nigeria one’. Even if we don’t forget we must forgive.”
– Chido Onumah, Nigerian journalist and author, on the agitation for the independent state of Biafra. Mr. Onumah was speaking at the 2016 National Convention of the Anambra State Association (ASA-USA), Dallas, Texas, USA (Source: Osun Defender)
“It is horrific. The country of Madiba (Nelson Mandela’s South Africa) is being run like a spaza shop.”
– A retired South African judge, Johan Kriegler, opposing the fraud charges against South Africa’s Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, accused of fraudulently approving an early retirement package of about $720,000 for a former employee at the tax agency about a decade ago (Source: Time Live newspaper)
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