Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Niger. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Niger Quotes And Sayings by 75 Authors including Albert Murray,Goodluck Jonathan,Francois Rabelais,Thomas Piketty,Mo Abudu for you to enjoy and share.
I am not an African. I am an American.
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things.
[Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]
Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of 900 million and an annual output of only 1.8 trillion euros (less than the French GDP of 2 trillion),
I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.
Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.
The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from a ride
With the Lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
It's not going to determine whether I will remain with Nigeria or not. I don't have a contract and I'm not depending on this match to give me a contract. So please don't think I will die in the Nigeria job.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
From 1960-2015 Nigerians live under the rules of those who are above the law, but from 2015 we hope for a little change, and if there is no change in 2015, only God knows what will happened.
And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
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.
Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.
It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
Africa is the future.
An enlightened and empowered generation is the key to our development in Nigeria and indeed in Africa
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
There is always something new coming out of Africa.
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept ... You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen
We must stop calling corruption a "Nigerian factor".
Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country.
I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.
My political ambition
is not worth the blood of any Nigerian
In Africa, as resources inevitably disappear, people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.
The dead in Nigeria are always waking up. When somebody dies there, they only seem to die for a little while,
So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.
If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation.
Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.
There is always something new out of Africa.
I love Nigerians becouse they're extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.
Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.
I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I think we've moved beyond that Africans vs. African Americans. They may have more issues with us than we do with them.
Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!
When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.
Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.
Africa the place is forever obscured by the shadow of Africa the notion.
Nigeria 2025 is not a national cake we hope to all share, its a cake we must be ready to bake
I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.
We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took so many years - 16 years of the ruling party's rule of this country.
I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.
I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
I sort of consider myself a Nigerian who spends a lot of time in the U.S.
Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble'".
The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.
People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third
There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.
What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.
Change Won't Happen Immediately, as Nigeria's Problems Didn't Start Overnight
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated
Africa is on the rise.
Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living.
The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.
Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.
I've been to North Africa many times.
In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil.
Africa for the Africans ... at home and abroad!
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.
It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest.
If you are a Nigerian professor and your professorship cannot be felt practically in the Nigerian society; then to hell with your professorship!
The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization.
I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.
The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.
Africa is a very dangerous place.
The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle
Africa has no future.